Civil View (Dynamite VSP) and SketchBook Designer
Civil 3D and Civil View (Dynamite VSP) make 3ds Max much easier to learn if you are trying to create civil renderings. Civil View is used to quickly convert Civil 3D geometry such as corridors and...
View ArticlePlanned Service Pack Transparency for 3ds Max 2012
Autodesk released a list of the planned fixes for the 3ds Max 2012 to improve feedback from the customers. This is very different from what we would typically see of the other products Autodesk...
View ArticleRendering the Ground Plane in Revit
One of the problems you might run into when creating an exterior render in Revit is the ground plane. When rendering, you will probably want to turn it off or cover it up. What I like to do is create a...
View Article3DS Max – Civil View (Mental Ray) Render Speed
When rendering scenes in 3DS Max and Civil View (Dynamite VSP), you might find that the mental ray presets take a long time to render. Therefore, any animations that you create will take a very long...
View ArticleAutodesk Labs Project Neon – Revit 2012 – Web Update 1
Project Neon allows you to use Autodesk’s servers to render your Revit models. However, Web Update 1 for Revit broke Project Neon. There is now an update to the add-in so that it will work with...
View ArticleCivil View (Dynamite VSP) – 3DS Max- Gaps in Corridors
Recently, we had a customer call in asking about how to preserve the gaps in a corridor surface when exporting to Civil View. When you export a corridor in Civil View to 3DS Max, it’s going to create...
View ArticleCivil View (3DS Max) and Vertical Faces
As you may know, Civil 3D does not like vertical faces in a TIN. Many of the default corridor subassemblies actually have slight offsets built in to avoid creating vertical faces. However, you’ll...
View ArticleAutodesk Cloud
Autodesk Cloud was recently released for all subscription customers. What is Autodesk Cloud? It’s an online service that gives you access to a variety of online server based applications. The core...
View ArticleNVidia Maximus
NVidia Maximus allows you to link up a Quadro card for graphics, and a Tesla card for data processing. This allows programs to unload intensive data processing operations off of the CPU that are better...
View ArticleAutoCAD Analysis Zebra
This strange command was introduced in AutoCAD 2011. Speaking with co-workers here, it’s mainly a source of frustration as users try to Zoom Extents and instead get the ZEBRA command, the alias for...
View ArticleRevit Render Colors Faded – Mental Ray – Gamma Correction
If you have tried rendering in Revit, you may find that the materials have colors that look faded or washed out when rendering. This is because Revit does not apply any gamma correction. While there...
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