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It's Christmas time and we
have some REAL gifts for you!
Revit Architectural
Visualisations
Designers aspiring to create world-class
architectural visualisations from Revit may be
looking to Autodesk 3ds Max Design to achieve
those goals. Developing skills in new software
is not a task to be taken lightly, however
Autodesk provides a wealth of technical
information in the form of White Papers:
Daylight Simulation in 3ds Max Design 2009:
Getting Started
Learn how to take models that were created in
Revit® or AutoCAD® and import them into
Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design to create accurate and
compelling daylight simulations with the
Exposure™ feature. This white paper is for the
daylight simulation novice.
Daylight Simulation in 3ds Max Design 2009:
Advanced
Learn about advanced concepts in daylight
simulation using the Exposure™ feature in
Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design. This white paper is
for architects, designers, engineers, and
visualization specialists who are familiar with
daylight simulation and want to take it to the
next level.
Autodesk FBX-Based Revit Architecture 2009 to
Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2009 Workflow
This white paper is for architects, designers,
engineers, and visualization specialists who
need to move data from Revit® Architecture 2009
software to Autodesk® 3ds Max® Design 2009
software to further explore, validate, or
communicate their designs.
Using 3ds Max and mental ray for Architectural
Visualization
Want a fast way to create complex renders? See
why mental ray® software, combined with
Autodesk® 3ds Max® 9 software, is the logical
choice for precise, creative architectural and
design visualization projects.
DWG-Based Revit Architecture to Autodesk 3ds Max
9 Workflow
As architectural firms move from traditional CAD
drafting to building information modelling
workflows, it is important to be able to
effectively move data from Revit® Architecture
to Autodesk® 3ds Max® software for advanced
visualization. This white paper shows you how.
AutoCAD's Missing Fonts
Many users are very patient with the
"Font Not
Found" error message that presents when opening
a drawing supplied by a third party. I am not.
Firstly, you may need to cancel/accept several
dialogue boxes to open every drawing, and worse,
there is no way of knowing the effect on the
finished drawing. Many replaced fonts may now
spread outside of title borders, or overlap, or
be missing completely. There are a number of
methods to overcome this problem.
First and Best:
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Create a single master folder for all AutoCAD
fonts on the fileserver (e.g. F:\AutoCAD\Fonts)
shared by all CAD operators in your
organisation.
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Into this folder, copy all the files out of
the Font folder from one of your AutoCAD
installations.
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Change the Support Path folder for each of
your AutoCAD installations to point to this
shared folder, and remove any reference to a
local Fonts folder.
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THEN, each and every time that you receive a
file from another consultant with missing fonts,
immediately ask for the files to be supplied
(email) and add them into this folder.
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Every new release of AutoCAD, copy the
contents of the new local Fonts folder into this
shared folder, overwriting any older files. This
will add new and update old.
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Problem solved.
Also, ask your drawing supplier to use AutoCAD's
eTransmit process, ensuring that in
the eTransmittal Setup, all the
"Include Options"
are ticked, fonts being one.
There are some additional tools built into
AutoCAD, but the above process is by far the
best and simplest.
In the preferences dialogue
Options>Files>Support Text Editor, Dictionary
and Font File Names> there are two entries
pertaining to fonts:
Font mapping File: This text file (editable)
maps a requested font to an alternative.
Alternate Font File: This will substitute a
selected font for any found missing or not
referenced in the Font Mapping file. Set this to
blank to force the irritating message so that
you know what is missing.
Refer to the help file for additional
information on the FONTMAP and FONTALT system
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