See you at AU this year?

Autodesk University 2012 is upon us! In a little less than a week, Las Vegas will bring together some of the best Revit experts out there today. And as always, it will be a great opportunity to meet and talk with some of them, attend sessions on everything and anything to do with Revit, and generally get a chance to meet new people in the BIM space. Some of those within the #UKBIMCrew will also be attending (always a fun bunch!), and I am happy to report that Chris, David and I will all be attending this year. We will arrive a bit earlier, from the 23rd of November, to get rid of the jetlag before the sessions we have lined up begin.

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Symbols for Lighting Fixtures Showing in Plan

Back in 2010 I was asked to create a face-based lighting fixture that, when placed on a wall, would display a symbol in plan view. “No problem,” I thought, and happily set out to work on it. Little did I know that it couldn’t be done. Had I “known,” I might not have even tried. But as it turns out, it was possible after all.

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RTC and the best Revit conference you could attend

I’m back from a two-week trip to the US where I attended and presented at RTC (Revit Technology Conference) in Stone Mountain, GA. It was the second North American RTC conference, with last year’s taking place near Los Angeles. Since this was my first RTC conference I didn’t know what to expect. I was pretty much convinced to attend after hearing how good it was from people who attended last year. Then at AU 2011, Steve Stafford prodded me to submit a talk about content creation and I was all set.

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