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Effects of acoustical ceiling panel type: Vertical sound isolation

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Preventing noise from transmitting between enclosed rooms is important in buildings. For example, students being energetic in their classroom on an upper floor of a school building should not disturb peers concentrating in the library below them. earn a minimum ceiling attenuation class (CAC) rating of 35. by Gary Madaras, PhD.

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Revit OpEd: Reference Planes and Wall Closure

Revit OpEd

Control Wall’s Material Return. A door or window family has the ability to control the return of materials (i.e. The exterior and interior materials can be controlled separately. A single door family is controlling the various conditions shown below. Builds and Updates. Moving Ceiling Grid Pattern.

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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. Missing Foreword for Introducing Revit 2010. Moving Ceiling Grid Pattern. ► 2010. ► 2010.

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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. Missing Foreword for Introducing Revit 2010. of Echo - Don't use the Basic Ceiling. ► 2010.

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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 - 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. ► 2010.