Why a Revit material texture and its surface pattern do not line up: model vs drafting patterns, Texture Alignment, sample size, units. 5 fixes with Autodesk steps.
Category Archives: Tools
Which Revit plugin makes the texture, which makes the Surface and Cut patterns, which does both, with price and Revit versions from their own pages.
How to convert a PNG or JPG to a real SVG made of paths instead of an embedded bitmap, check the file, keep it small and send it to Cricut, Silhouette, the web or Figma.
How to turn a pixelated PNG or JPG logo into a clean vector with its exact colours, check the result and send it to print, vinyl, laser or 3D.
Online, Tools, Tracepen
PNG / JPG to DXF for Laser and CNC: Closed Outlines, One Layer per Colour (Free)
How to turn a PNG or JPG into a DXF that laser cutters, CNC routers and CAD accept: closed outlines, one layer per colour, which DXF type to pick and how to fix the size.
How to make a Meshy or Tripo model lighter after you download it: reduce the GLB you already have, with its textures and UVs kept.
A Figma plugin that traces an image – or the layer you have selected – into editable vector paths, one path per colour.
Blender, Tools, Tracepen
Blender Image to Mesh Add-on: PNG to Clean Curves in Seconds, One Object per Colour
Trace an image in Blender and get geometry back: one mesh or Bezier curve object per colour, a tracer that runs on your machine, and the details that catch people out.
Custom Revit add-in development in C# on the Revit API — Revit 2022 to 2027, multi-version builds behind one installer, source code included.
3dshouse Dynamic is a free SketchUp plugin with a library of hundreds of ready-made dynamic components for parametric furniture design and production — doors, drawers, shelves, cabinet frames and more. Instead of modeling every part, you assemble accurate, highly customizable components and follow your own design ideas at full speed. The plugin and the free […]