Tutorials
How to do the job by hand. Each one names the manual method first — if the tool then saves you an hour, you will know exactly which hour.
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Rendering projects
Plan an event tent layout: capacity, circulation and camera angles
How many guests actually fit under a 15×30 m tent once you account for a dance floor, a bar and the aisles people need to walk.
2026-08-08 · 5 min read -
Revit
Export Revit schedules to Excel without losing formatting
The built-in export writes a delimited text file that Excel mangles. Here is the manual route, and the one-click alternative.
2026-07-14 · 7 min read -
Blender
Clean a photogrammetry scan in Blender: the 10-step manual method
Non-manifold edges, interior faces, doubled vertices and n-gons, fixed by hand — so you can see exactly what an automated pass has to get right.
2026-06-28 · 11 min read -
SketchUp
Reduce polygons in SketchUp without wrecking your model
Why SketchUp slows down above roughly a million edges, and which reduction strategies keep the geometry usable.
2026-06-02 · 6 min read -
Blender
Scatter vegetation on terrain in Blender with geometry nodes
Slope and altitude masking from first principles, and why instancing beats duplication above a few thousand objects.
2026-05-19 · 9 min read -
3ds Max
Build a parametric curtain wall in 3ds Max with MAXScript
Spline-driven mullion grids, corner conditions and why a script survives version upgrades that a modelled wall does not.
2026-04-22 · 12 min read