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A Product Review by Michael Anonuevo

Introduction

In preparing to writing an instructional eBook on how to produce Autodesk Revit renderings and walkthroughs, one of the things I did a few months back was conduct a research on computer systems optimized for these types of Revit tasks. It is a subject matter that I know will occupy a chapter on its own in the eBook. I’ve looked at brand names such as HP, Dell, Lenovo, and Asus. However, I could not find any computer system specifically targeted for Revit modeling. By chance, I ran into a colleague who suggested that I look into BOXX computer workstations (www.boxxtech.com). I had never heard of the company, although I found out later that they had been around for the last 15 years! As a  full time Revit modeler who is always busy creating complex families or writing about them, I never really got into the details of a good Revit computer workstation. And so with this new eBook project, I had a chance to look at a workstation made for Revit. After emailing my credentials and review proposal to a BOXX specialist, I was connected to the right channels and eventually was sent a unit for evaluation.

This article is about the 3DBOXX 4920 XTREME workstation. At the BOXX website, this model is referred to as The World’s Fastest Workstation for Autodesk Revit. On the internet, you’ll find great reviews about this workstation, including its technical details and specifications. To avoid being redundant, the main focus of this review is how effective this workstation is for Revit Architecture users. I will, however, highlight certain features worth taking a look at.

Is this really the fastest workstation for Revit? How can we users benefit from this system? What makes this workstation special from the rest of the pack? How does this computer compare to yours or other workstations? These questions (and many more) are tackled in this review. If you are in the process of upgrading your Revit workstations or want to add a dedicated power workstation for generating renderings and walkthroughs, this article will help you decide which system to purchase.
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In response to Revit users from Australia, UK, Europe and other countries, I’m happy to announce the release of the Metric Editions of my eBooks:

• Creating Custom Revit Architecture 2012 Families, Metric Edition
• Creating Custom Revit Architecture 2013 Families, Metric Edition

They are free with the purchase of the 2012/2013 US Editions. Please click this link to get a PDF sampler containing sample images and Forewords written by Jeff Pinheiro (theRevitKid.com) and Jay Zallan (Perkowitz+Ruth Architects).

by:

Michael Anonuevo
Revit Architecture Certified Professional
www.littledetailscount.com

I just released the 2013 update to my 2012 eBook: Creating Custom Revit Architecture 2013 Families: A Practical Guide for Beginner and Intermediate Users

Join Revit users nationwide and all over the world who have discovered the valuable information in this eBook. There is nothing like this in the market right now. The eBook teaches the efficient ways to create families. It also explains the subtle little details that go with family creation that no other books explain. In response to Revit users from Australia, UK and European countries, I’m happy to announce the Metric Editions of these eBooks. They will be released on or before November 2012. They are free for those who purchase the 2012/2013 Imperial (US) editions.

Book description:

PDF format, 16 Chapters, 777 pages, over 2000 images. All the new 2013 features are explained in-depth. Download my PDF sampler (163 pages) containing the full Table of Contents (2012 & 2013), Forewords by Steve Stafford and Lonnie Cumpton, and sample images here.

by:

Michael Anonuevo
Revit Architecture Certified Professional
www.littledetailscount.com

I’m happy to announce the release of my eBook entitled:

Creating Custom Revit Architecture Families 2012
A Practical Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users

for an introductory price of $19.95. The price includes a free update to the 2013 version of this eBook (slated for release on or before October 2012) and four free Revit families from my website.

Although the book was written with architects in mind ,it is also a useful guide and resource for interior designers, recent architecture graduates, Revit MEP and Structure users, and AutoCAD users transitioning to Revit. It is also a handy reference for BIM managers and advanced users.

Book description:

PDF format, 16 Chapters, 751 pages, over 2000 images. Tutorial files are also included.
Requirement: Basic knowledge of Revit.

Download the full Table of Contents, Foreword by Steve Stafford, and sample images here.

Michael Anonuevo
Certified Autodesk Revit Architecture Professional
www.littledetailscount.com

Congratulations John Fout and Duarte Couto for ousting  the top spots in Architecture and Structure for week 4. 

If you are one of those that asked us to extent the challenge for another couple weeks. We have heard you and the Challenge will continue until May 31, 2012. If you have not taken the time to enter in the challenge you now have 3 more weeks.

As of today May 14, 2012 we have had 169 of you take the Club Revit 2012 Knowledge Challenge. As an over all group you have created an average score of 67.8%. Leading the way is the Architectural group with 120 participants and an average score of 70.1%. In second place is the MEP group with 27 participants with an average score of 65%. The Structural group with 22 participants and an average score of 58.9%. This week in the Industry race the Architects are still on top, MEP in Second and Structure in Third. Both the MEP and Structure teams are still well behind in the number of participants.

I know we have lots of Revit MEP members of Club Revit and Don Bokmiller has dominated  MEP for 4 weeks now. So I have to put the call out to all the MEP folks, take the challenge and see if you can not get me to write another name next to MEP for next weeks updated results.

NOTE:

We had a couple higher scores that would have changed the leader board this week, but those individuals we disqualified because they took the challenge more than once. Remember you can only take each version “Discipline” of the challenge once. Multiple entries into one discipline challenge will disqualify you.

As of today the High Scores belong to:

Duarte Couto: Week 4 leader for the Architectural Group this is the first week that Duarte has held the top spot.

Don Bokmiller: Week 4 leader for the MEP Group this is the fourth week that Don has held the top spot.

John Fout: Week 4 leader for the Structure group this is the first week that John has held the top spot.

If you want a chance at $100 Amazon gift card and bragging rights all over the world use the link below and take the challenge. The more of us that take the challenge the more fun the effort will be. It is just 24 questions and you have 30 minutes to finish.

 http://clubrevit.com/KC2012

Have Fun and Good Luck

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Autodesk has released new videos showing features of Revit. We have organized them below for you enjoyment.

We have also created pages for each product and organized the videos on that page as well.

http://clubrevit.com/videos/revit-architecture/

http://clubrevit.com/videos/revit-structure/

http://clubrevit.com/videos/revit-mep/

http://clubrevit.com/videos/revit-platform/

http://clubrevit.com/videos/navisworks/

http://clubrevit.com/videos/autodesk-360/  

Revit Feature Videos

Autodesk Revit: Creating a Winder Stair

Demonstrates how to use the L-Shape winder tool in Revit to create a winder stair and add parallel treads to the upper and lower run ends.

More Videos after the break

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Congratulations Melissa Thiessens for ousting Matt McKechnie for the top Architectural spot for week 3. 

As of today May 8, 2012 we have had 151 of you take the Club Revit 2012 Knowledge Challenge. As an over all group you have created an average score of 67.4%. Leading the way is the Architectural group with 108 participants and an average score of 69.5%. In second place is the MEP group with 23 participants with an average score of 65.2%. The Structural group with 20 participants and an average score of 59.1%. This week in the Industry race the Architects are still on top, MEP in Second and Structure in Third. Both the MEP and Structure teams are still well behind in the number of participants. Also we have had the same leaders for MEP and Structure for all three weeks. Just incase you were wondering the best score of all challenge takers is a 91%. Lots of room for others to take those top spots.

NOTE:

We had a couple higher scores that would have changed the leader board this week, but those individuals we disqualified because they took the challenge more than once. Remember you can only take each version “Discipline” of the challenge once. Multiple entries into one discipline challenge will disqualify you.

As of today the High Scores belong to:

Melissa Thiessens: Week 3 leader for the Architectural Group this is the first week that Melissa has held the top spot.

Don Bokmiller: Week 3 leader for the MEP Group this is the third week that Don has held the top spot.

Rebecca Frangipane: Week 3 leader for the Structure group this is the third week that Rebecca has held the top spot.

If you want a chance at $100 Amazon gift card and bragging rights all over the world use the link below and take the challenge. The more of us that take the challenge the more fun the effort will be. It is just 24 questions and you have 30 minutes to finish.

 http://clubrevit.com/KC2012

Have Fun and Good Luck

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As of today April 30, 2012 we have had 82 of you take the Club Revit 2012 Knowledge Challenge. As an over all group you have created an average score of 69.4%. Leading the way is the Architectural group with 54 participants and an average score of 72.3%. In second place is the MEP group has 14 participants with an average score of 65.8%. The Structural group with 14 participants and an average score of 61.7%. This week in the Industry race the Architects are still on top, but the MEP and Structure team changed position. Both the MEP and Structure teams are well behind in the number of participants.

We also have a couple company challenges developing. If you let us know your company name and the email addresses of those that took the challenge we can give you a report of just that group.

NOTE:

We had a couple higher scores that would have changed the leader board this week, but those individuals we disqualified because they took the challenge more than once. Remember you can only take each version “Discipline” of the challenge once. Multiple entries into one discipline challenge will disqualify you.

As of today the High Scores belong to:

Matt McKechnie: Week 2 leader for the Architectural Group this is the second week that Matt has held the top spot.

Don Bokmiller: Week 2 leader for the MEP Group this is the second week that Don has held the top spot.

Rebecca Frangipane: Week 2 leader for the Structure group this is the second week that Rebecca has held the top spot.

If you want a chance at $100 Amazon gift card and bragging rights all over the world use the link below and take the challenge. The more of us that take the challenge the more fun the effort will be. It is just 24 questions and you have 30 minutes to finish.

 http://clubrevit.com/KC2012

Have Fun and Good Luck

As of today April 24, 2012 we have had 41 of you take the Club Revit 2012 Knowledge Challenge. As an over all group you have created an average score of 71.9%. Leading the way is the Architectural group with 23 participants and an average score of 74.1%. In second place is the Structural group with 8 participants and an average score of 70.3%. The MEP group has 10 participants with an average score of 60.8%. All of you MEP and Structure folks out there need to band together and make sure those Architects do not out score you.

As of today the High Scores belong to:

Matt McKechnie: Week 1 leader for the Architectural Group

Don Bokmiller: Week 1 leader for the MEP Group

Rebecca Frangipane: Week 1 leader for the Structure group.

If you want a chance at $100 Amazon gift card and bragging rights all over the world use the link below and take the challenge. The more of us that take the challenge the more fun the effort will be. it is just 24 questions and you have 30 minutes to finish.

 http://clubrevit.com/KC2012

Have Fun and Good Luck

Knowledge Smart and Club Revit are happy to welcome you to the Club Revit 2012 Knowledge Challenge.

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

(Khalil Gibran)

We invite you to put your Revit knowledge into action, by participating in our global Revit knowledge challenge. We have three different challenges Revit MEP, Revit Structure and Revit Architecture. Each challenge has 24 questions and you have 30 minuts to answer them. We expect Club Revit members from all over the world to participate. So come out and represent your country, your company or just yourself. We will be posting updates each week so you can see how the challenge is going. Remember you only get one shot per challenge so make it count.

Did we forget to mention that we will be awarding $100 Amazon gift card to the winners of the challenge.

Please take the time to reed the rules before you start the challenge. Click Here for the Rules

When your ready Click Here to go to the challenge