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One of the best free alternatives to the portfolio publishing website " ISSUU " is " YUMPU ". I switched from Issuu to Yumpu when I found that Issuu no longer supported the flipbook view of the Magazines/Portfolios. It's just a personal preference to be able to view the published portfolio similar to a flip book or magazine format. The best thing I like in Yumpu is that you can even add videos to your portfolios to be viewed or linked to an external source. To do this Hover over your name on any page and go to " My Magazines " which opens the following page My Magazine Click on edit pages, which opens the " hotspot editor " of Yumpu  In the hotspot editor, to your left, you can find various options to  Create internal or external web links, Link to a specific page in a document, Embed youtube, Vimeo or Yumpu video, Embed Audio File, Add a slide show area. Hotspot Editor

Photoshop is a widely used tool for almost all types of design industry. There are lots of people using it who have gained immense knowledge in using it. Some of them are generous enough to offer few library photo packs & cut-outs for free. You can get those in the following links 200 Pople cut-outs for free by Case-3D  can be downloaded from the following link  by Ronen Bekerman Arqui 9  also provides few free photo-packs. This website also has paid cut-outs for interested individuals.

The Speckle website(which is still in beta stage) has few examples of how we can use a grasshopper between multiple desktops for collaboration. Note: this website only works in Mozilla firefox properly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKd0t1SehFc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPhiMiivWtM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDbnBnEloI0

Similar to Section & Elevation tags in Revit, you can insert jump node in grasshopper at 2 locations to switch between those 2 views. In the video, if you jump to " 5:53 " in the timeline, you can view the use of jump node.

DesignScript is a software developed by Autodesk that uses programming language for exploratory design and analysis. It is similar to Grasshopper, except it doesn't have any visual coding (nodes), it's totally a programming based application. The following are the introduction tutorials of Design Script Introduction to DesignScript Editor (IDE) DesignScript tutorial The following Webinar by Autodesk Research gives a brief explanation of  Design Script. DesignScript Webinar

If you ever had a need to use points in AutoCAD or had to divide a line, you would've have found there was no change in the viewport, bu the issue is that the points are not visible. You can change the point style in AutoCAD so that they are displayed in a different format. To do that you just have to type DDPTYPE or PTYPE in AutoCAD which pops up the following window of preset point styles, you ca choose from the list of styles. Point style

To create a sectoral cylinder in 3ds max, do the following steps, posted in the AutoDesk forum  post . Create a Primitive Cylinder with Slice On. Set "Slice From" value to 0, and "Slice To" value to 180. for half cylinder & customize these values for your requirement Sectoral Cylinder

3ds Max is one of the most used software for 3d modeling & animation. It has a lot of commands and is very hard to keep track of every command and its use. Gaincr  provides us with a list  of images showing the use of commands for specific purposes. Keyboard Shortcuts for Vertices  Keyboard shortcuts for edges Keyboard Shortcuts for Borders    Keyboard Shortcuts for Polygons Keyboard Shortcuts for the Element Keyboard Shortcuts for Geometry Editing    Keyboard Shortcuts for the Main Toolbar 1 Keyboard Shortcuts for the Main Toolbar 2    Keyboard Shortcuts for the Animation and Navigation Bar    Mouse Shortcuts    Keyboard Shortcuts in the Viewport   Keyboard Shortcuts in the Viewport 2

Autocad is one of the oldest and the most used software in the field of architecture. Autocad has been around since 1982 and has undergone many updates and many commands have been added, according to users suggestions. One of such commands, that is most used in AutoCAD is "OFFSET" Offset command has many added subcommands that can reduce the number of repetitive tasks performed by the users. When you activate the offset command, you can see the list of possible subcommands that can be executed with the offset, in the command line such as multiple, layer. The following link  from Autodesk help website gives us all the possible options that can be executed using offset command Lynn Allen is one of the expert AutoCAD user, who provides tutorials and also speaks in Autodesk university to share her knowledge of AutoCAD. She explains in detail the perks of offset command in her blog .

If you ever want to check what the dimension of an object is going to be when it's printed on a particular scale you set(in layout/paper space), you have to set DIMASSOC values to either 0 or 1. If the value is set to 2, the dimensions display the real scale dimensions of the object in paper space. Please refer the following link from cad-notes for a detailed explanation.

If you're a grasshopper user and are also familiar with 3ds Max or an expert in 3ds Max, you might have wondered at least once if there's a plugin for 3ds max that I similar to grasshopper for rhino. I've been wondering the same and have recently been introduced to a plugin called  Para 3d  by one of my colleagues. Though this is not exactly the same, the features are pretty much similar to grasshopper with few restriction. Parametric array with Para-3d The problem I found with this plugin is that the interface of the windows is not so user-friendly, and the nodes are very confusing, one might easily get lost within the large number of nodes if entire model is built using para-3d You can find an example video below.

Powerpoint provides us with many possible shapes to create and many smart shapes too. We can utilize the smart shapes and customize those to our needs. the following method provides architects with an easy method of creating a bubble diagram for their pre-design stage. This method is very interactive and useful because you can add multiple bubbles that prefer not to overlap and the text automatically changes the size while the shapes and connectors adjust themselves. Bubble Diagram Create a blank page and go to insert tab. Horizontal Hierarchy Click on smart shapes and the select " Horizontal Hierarchy " shape from the "Hierarchy" list You'll page will be filled with the following shapes  Horizontal Hierarchy Click on each of the shapes and right-click for the context menu. Select change shape > oval. Then change the oval shape into a circle by dragging the corners of the shape, like the image below  Bubble diagram If you want to