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Acoustic panels reduce excessive barking noise in dog shelters keeping animals calmer

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The normally hard surfaces used for walls, floors and ceilings can create an echo chamber where one dog’s barking can reverberate throughout the entire facility. If windows or other wall obstacles are present, panels can also be installed on the wall behind the cages or on the ceiling. About Eckel Noise Control Technologies.

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Revit OpEd: Chameleon for Grasshopper and Revit

Revit OpEd

It offers a Curtain Grid Manager that controls both panels and grids now, offers a preview of the system as well as helping to distinguish between vertical and horizontal orientations. Builds and Updates. Moving Ceiling Grid Pattern. ► 2006. ► December 2006. (14). ► October 2006. (5).

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Revit OpEd: Apply View Template to all Views

Revit OpEd

I'm a little concerned w/ the new 2013 view template feature as it takes away the flexibility of independently controlling the VG per view regardles of the View Template assigned to it. Builds and Updates. of Echo - Don't use the Basic Ceiling. Building Design Suite Installation Readme. ► 2006.

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Revit OpEd: View Discipline

Revit OpEd

When MEP (Systems as it was called then) appeared a year later they extended the concept to Mechanical and Electrical (plumbing lumped in with Mechanical till release 2013). My wish list in regards to Discipline and related items: 1)A choice for "none" giving full visibility control to the user. Builds and Updates.

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Revit OpEd: Wishlist - Families and Hide at Scales Coarser Than

Revit OpEd

Combine this with the Detail Level concept and wed have even more granular control over the information and geometry in a family. Related to this is the notion that there are representations that wed like to control for floor plan orientation and offer a different appear for the reflected ceiling plan (RCP) version. at 8:00 AM.

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Revit OpEd: Revit 2013 - Suppress Spaces in Dimensions

Revit OpEd

So ideally you should be able to control the dimension value [via Project Units > Length] and additionally tweak the Prefix Suffix Text setting under the Dimension Type. Builds and Updates. of Echo - Don't use the Basic Ceiling. Building Design Suite Installation Readme. ► 2006. ► October 2006.

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Revit OpEd: Revit 2013 - View Types

Revit OpEd

As Revits features have been merged into the new Building Design Suite "Revit" it became apparent that putting all the tools in one box created some curious view, view template and discipline control issues that had to be sorted out, thus being able to create view types for more views was born. Builds and Updates. ► 2006.