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BOXX Revit Workstation
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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Micro Review: Revit LT 2013, is it right for me?
Autodesk introduced Revit LT 2013 today, I bet you are wondering “Is Revit LT right for me?” Let’s try to answer that with another Micro Review.
First is cost, A new seat of Autodesk Revit LT is$1,200.00 or $1,500.00 for the suite. You can take 50% off if you upgrade from AutoCAD LT to Autodesk Revit LT suite. Autodesk Revit LT Suite includes Revit LT and AutoCAD LT, so if you have AutoCAD LT you may just want to go with the Suite.
The second thing to look at are the features. Here is a link to Autodesk’s feature comparison chartbetween Revit LT and the Full version of Revit Architecture. After I reviewed the chart here are a few missing features that stood out:
- No in-place families, although I disliked in-place families they are one of the necessary evils in Revit.
- No worksharing, this is a HUGH feature in the full version of Revit that I used everyday. Not having worksharing could be a deal breaker for you company.
- No Customizing the visibility of linked models. This could also pose a problem, changing the visibility settings of a linked model is a feature that we all know and love.
- No photorealistic rendering within the product. For me this is not as big of a deal as the lack of worksharing is.
- It also looks like massing is lacking some features as well. I did not use massing so I won’t miss it.
Third thing to look at is the system requirements, in short the system requirements are the same for Revit LT as the are for the full version Revit. If you need 8GB of RAM now for your Revit model, you will need 8GB of RAM with RevitLT.
Revit LT 2013 Conclusion:
. At first glance for the price and if you don’t use worksharing this may be the way to go. If you already have a full seat or three of Revit, for close to the same money you can migrate to the network version of Revit and allow more people in your office to use the full version Revit by taking advantage of the floating license.
Autodesk will have the product trial is available on the 18th of September. I look forward to playing with Revit LT and learn more about it, as I am sure you are.
Bill Debevc
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This was re-posted with permission from CloudsCarsCameras.com
New eBook Announcement
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
Week 4 Update – Club Revit 2012 Knowledge Challenge
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.
Have Fun and Good Luck
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Week 3 Update – Club Revit 2012 Knowledge Challenge
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.
Have Fun and Good Luck
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Week 2 Update – Club Revit 2012 Knowledge Challenge
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.
Have Fun and Good Luck
Week 1 Update – Club Revit 2012 Knowledge Challenge
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.
Have Fun and Good Luck
Club Revit 2012 Knowledge Challenge – Kick Off
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
Revit Structure 2013 New Feature Videos
Autodesk has released several new videos showing the new features of Revit Structure 2013. We have organized them below for you enjoyment.
Revit Structure 2013 New Features
Area and Path Reinforcement Hosting Structural Rebar in Autodesk Revit 2013
Area and Path Reinforcement has been updated with new behavior that make these elements containers for hosting Structural Rebar.
More Videos after the break…
Revit 2013 Platform New Feature Videos
Autodesk has released several new videos showing the new features of Revit 2013 Platform. Platform means tools that apply to Architecture, Structure and MEP. We have organized them below for you enjoyment.
Revit 2013 Platform New Features
Repeat Adaptive Components
After a path is divided, adaptive components can be placed on one of the nodes. The component will be repeated on all nodes of the divided path.
More videos After the break…
