I am Happy to report that CAD Shack has hit over 100,000 hits.
I would like to thank my team of trained gerbils for continually hitting my blogs for sun flower seeds. Tonight, I am rewarding them with a slice of apple.
Thanks too, to all of you who may have inadvertently stopped by the Shack once and checked back with me from time to time. I am looking forward to the next 100,000 hits, and providing some great information along the way.
Thanks Everyone!
On March 7, the Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) and the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineering (ASHRAE) Nebraska Chapters are sponsoring first one day Expo and Technical Conference for professionals involved in the building industry.
Topics of interest to our audience cover a wide range of topics divided in tracks. Presentation may focus on technical, applications, or energy efficient buildings and technologies.
November 10 – Due date for speakers applications; Applications after this date will be accepted but there will be no guarantee that the speaker will be considered if all track sessions are filled.
Proposal Guidelines & Tips:
v Identify your anticipated audience(s) and level of expertise or development
v Provide a compelling title
v Provide short abstract describing the objectives of the topic
v Presentation shall be 45 minutes long with 10-15 minutes for questions/discussion
v Expenses such as travel and logging are covered by the event organizer; Speaker expense donation by your organization is welcomed
v Presentation shall be focused on a new technology, application, energy efficient operation, i.e. a curriculum;
Note: If you’re abstract is selected for the conference, you will be contacted via e-mail with additional information for travel and hotel arrangements, as well as a contract agreement.
For more information go to http://aei-ashraexpo.org/speakers.html
My Friend Doug Bowers had an interesting problem today. He sent me this email.
I have a schedule in which I do not want the CFM to show as text in the
schedule (I just want the numeric value). I figured that was easy enough to
do by just going into the schedule properties and changing the formatting
for that field. I selected the desired field, picked the Field Format
button, removed the checkmark for "Use project settings", and then changed
the "Unit symbol" from "CFM" to "None". It gave me an "Invalid Input" error
message and wouldn't allow the change.
I thought that was interesting, so I went in the Project Units for the
project itself and tried to change the HVAC Airflow units from CFM to
something else. Not only would Revit not let me change it to something
else, but if I just picked the OK button without changing anything it gave
me the same error message.
Here is the secret. Go into project units as Doug suggested and pick CFM, but this time first change the Rounding to anything but Custom first. Everything works as expected after that. For some crazy reason Custom is the default and it hasn't worked since at least 2010.
My suggestion is change it in your template and forget about it.
