Ask us Anything: Spotlight on Details
November 15, 2024
Presented by: Amanda Marin
Webinar Contents:
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- Intro/TOC
- Detail System in a Nutshell: Design F/X
- Detail Updates in 2024
- Detail Trainer
- Place All the Details at Once!
- New Detail Template
- Our Envisioned Future of Detail Tools
- Recommended Ways to Organize
0:00 – 4:34: Intro/TOC
4:35 – 5:35: Detail System in a Nutshell: Design F/X
- Organization system better than anything else in AutoCAD
- Detail Explorer: See your whole library with preview images!
- Organize between both office/city standard details and project-specific details.
- Detail Manager: Curate and track the details in a single design.
- Detail Builder tools
5:36 – 6:24: Detail Updates in 2024
Metric details (10:03)
6:25 – 11:50: Detail Trainer
11:51 – 14:08: Place All the Details at Once!
Placing multiple details at the same time (11:51)
14:09 – 33:49: New Detail Template
New Elevation Graphics blocks (15:28)
How to verify you have the new Detail Template block (16:29)
What to do if you accidentally delete a custom detail from your project detail folder (24:09)
Sharing and backing up details (21:11)
33:50 – 43:07: Our Envisioned Future of Detail Tools
Future plans as of webinar presentation:
- Same Detail Explorer in AutoCAD and Revit
- Design F/X used by architects and engineers in multidisciplinary firms
- A full default library of detail resources
- More manufacturer details ready to place
- Expanded detail builder blocks
- A spot to swap/share details with other landscape architects (share locked-up knowledge in the profession)
43:08 – end: Recommended Ways to Organize
Sharing a cloud-based detail library between firms (43:08)
How to maintain separate Preference Sets for different clients when working with details (47:56)
Renumbering details (52:32)
Converting DGN details to DWG (54:05)
Our plans for details in Revit (58:54)
Using our BatchMan tool to batch process multiple files – and a discussion of our plans to integrate it even more with our detail system (1:00:13)
Contact
- Land F/X
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