To be honest at the time ADT had a far stronger user base. Architects and designers where just not ready for BIM. Promoting Revit was a hard graft whilst it demonstrated really well and people loved what they saw, they just couldn’t see how it would fit within their existing processes. Revit 6 was the current version, this was well before anyone at Autodesk had thought about adding the year + 1 to the product. They had employed me as an Applications Engineer to promote, train and help sell Autodesk Revit. I was working for Excitech an Autodesk Reseller here in the UK. Revit LT? Now let me step back 6 years to 2004. This is the same cloud based functionality which was recently added to Revit 2011 as part of the Q3 subscription advantage pack. Your designs can be analysed using the built-in energy modeling and analysis features.
Vasari is able to produce conceptual models using both geometric and parametric modeling functionality. So what is Project Vasari? Whilst it would probably be wrong to call it a Lite version of Revit, nevertheless, Project Vasari is an easy to use standalone application built on the same technology as the Autodesk Revit platform. To top that, as it’s a preview technology so it will be free to use at your own risk. I am struggling to contain my excitement, but there is a storm a coming!!! Watch out for Project Vasari as its likely to appear on Autodesk labs in the very near future. Job done, I now have metric templates, which saves me having to keep changing from imperial to metric each time I start a new project or family. At the same time I pointed to the newly created location for my metric family templates. I then whipped back into Vasari, application menu > options > file locations and changed the default imperial template to my custom template. This make them Revit templates, if you didn’t already know this. I then changed the file extension of these files form. I then changed all my settings as required and saved them to a folder of my choice as rfa files with the word Metric added to the name. I have opened all the standard imperial templates as new projects and new families. Now after a bit of head scratching I discovered that because of the way Vasari is distributed its not easy to hack the imperial templates and make them metric.
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Ok, after you download and start playing you will soon find out that Vasari provides only imperial templates. The window will switch over to any opened project and you can placed as required. Once you have the family opened, just choose “load into Project” from the Ribbon. In this example I have downloaded a tree from Autodesk Seek and placed it into my project.įinally, another way to get the content loaded is to actually open the. The content can then be place as required.As Robert suggest in his post, you can then copy and replicate around the modelling canvas as required. So you have downloaded some content, how do you get into Vasari? The quickest way is to drag and drop it into a current open Vasari project window. But I am sure if you Google the words “Revit content”, you will come up with a bucket load of free content for you to use inside Vasari. Now the web is a wash with Revit content, be sure to check out Revit City or Autodesk Seek as a start point. This also means that as the file format is the same you can use normal Revit content inside of Vasari.
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Robert makes some useful observations and if you are new to the whole Vasari thing, hopefully by now you have realised that Vasari is built on the same technology as full Revit. Fellow blogger, Robert Manna over at don’t think : Do Revit wrote a great post today about hacking Vasari, its well worth a read.