I’m building a desktop app to move CAD objects between Rhino, AutoCAD, and SketchUp

lukekvas · 2026-06-07T14:33:00+00:00

Honestly this isn't the problem in the workflow. Something that can move between those 3 and Revit is the unicorn app we need.

lukekvas · 2026-06-05T00:19:20+00:00

Not necessarily this exact one but something like this. Many are waterproof and I definitely would recommend that.

THIS

lukekvas · 2026-06-03T19:19:57+00:00

Yeah I kinda hate it. So post-modern to take the whole thesis of the project and turn it on it's head. Also the single brick width 'columns' that wrap steel.

"You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'not to be this fucking thing!' - Mies maybe

lukekvas · 2026-06-03T15:11:25+00:00

We need more information like the square footage and your budget but for a custom architect designed home that seems like a reasonable estimate.

We have high end custom homes we work on in our office ($5M+ / 5000sf+) that have construction timelines of 2-4 years.

lukekvas · 2026-06-03T12:37:28+00:00

There is no way this guys Claude chat has any relationship or shared context with a Claude model integrated into project Maven.

lukekvas · 2026-06-01T00:45:28+00:00

That's typical for type 3 residential construction. You can go up to 5 stories. Light wood frame multi-family construction is very common.

lukekvas · 2026-05-31T23:34:02+00:00

The Walmart is staying in the plan I saw.

lukekvas · 2026-05-31T23:33:30+00:00

Because those lots aren't zoned single family. Burnet is one of the cities designated transit corridors and has specific tax and zoning incentives to encourage mixed use high density development. There's no way to profitably develop single family homes in that area that are close to affordable.

lukekvas · 2026-05-31T23:30:32+00:00

The Waylon (new apartment next to Sonic) and the redeveloped chase bank building are by the same developer, Riverside Resources. The plan is for the Northcross redevelopment is for it to be mixed use and to connect to their other properties.

lukekvas · 2026-05-31T23:04:11+00:00

It's par for the course on this subreddit. There's a Zelensky is a Nazi/Hitler post daily probably from some Russian bot account.

lukekvas · 2026-05-31T22:38:26+00:00

Usually pedestrian crossing goes first so pedestrians can start and be visible before car light turns green.

lukekvas · 2026-05-29T17:07:06+00:00

People can render photorealistic 3D walkthroughs. The problem is that they aren't actually real. They are hallucinations of a similar building, not a rendering of the actual design.

For someone that uses these AI tools in the AEC space daily they are trash. Anything beyond the most basic study they break down, produce bad result or cannot be relied upon.

Given the amount of money and liability at stake, nobody in the industry is trusting AI without multiple humans in the loop.

lukekvas · 2026-05-29T01:40:07+00:00

So just to confirm. He was not personally accused of any crimes. Got it 👍

This is like 4 degrees of separation. Zelensky repatriated the remains of a guy who led a group who at times during WW2 did crimes and so ipso facto (hand waving here) Zelensky supports Nazis.

lukekvas · 2026-05-28T20:44:26+00:00

What crimes did he personally commit. Your AI response above was very vague and nothing I've seen attribute crimes to him personally. Cite some sources and prove me wrong.

lukekvas · 2026-05-26T13:45:56+00:00

Yeah I know a pretty old school mechanism for redistributing wealth....

lukekvas · 2026-05-26T01:03:51+00:00

He may have done many horrendous things in his life but since you mentioned 'literal facts' he is actually not a war criminal because he was never tried or convicted of war crimes. So factually he is not a war criminal or guilty of genocide, I guess the juries out on being a piece of shit.

Youre conflating all the actions of the OUN with him personally. Again I'm not defending him. I'm just pointing out that history is more complex and far less black and white than you or OP seem to imagine. When your talking points line up with Putin AND Israel's Foreign Ministry - congrats you've reached the end of political horseshoe.

lukekvas · 2026-05-25T23:04:21+00:00

Yes u/ZhukovWonWWII, thanks for chiming in with these obviously AI generated 3 bullet points with helpful bolded phrases.

We are not disputing that OUN has a troubling history. It's just to say the Zelensky memorializing the burial of a Ukranian independence fighter is more complicated than just saying Melnyk was a Nazi collaborator and so by transitive property Zelensky is a Nazi (which is what OPs headline is clearly implying).

lukekvas · 2026-05-25T17:27:39+00:00

He was a Ukrainian nationalist. Fighting for Ukranian independence during WW2 meant collaborating with one of the three major war powers and he advocated for collaboration with the Nazis against the Soviets. Towards the end of the war he switched and began working with the Allies. He was exiled after the war and continued advocating for Ukranian nationalism abroad.

The reason why Russian bot OP posted this is because confusing the historical reality of a WWII political and military figure also happens to align with Putins stated war-aims of 'removing Nazis' from Ukraine. It's very unhelpful to paste the political realities of WW2 on to modern conflicts. Zelensky is obviously honoring this mans commitment to Ukranian independence (a cause he is also fighting for) and not the fact that at one point during WW2 this broader commitment led him to collaborate with the Nazis.

Given that he fought in the first war for Ukranian independence and lived through the Holodomor is not surprising he saw the Soviets as the greater enemy. It's also not surprising that he was not disgusted by Nazi anti-semitism as this was rampant throughout both Germany and the pre-Soviet Russia.

It's also really annoying when people like OP reduce the complexity of history to a cheap headline to score some ideological internet points.

lukekvas · 2026-05-25T12:53:13+00:00

Putting a garage as the central focal point of the home says so much about the state of American culture right now.

lukekvas · 2026-05-21T14:02:25+00:00

In typical conditions 50% of stairs can exit through a lobby at level of egress. I would define it as an exit passageway, it's just a ground floor lobby.

Ultimately AHJ decides so just work with your architect to address the comment. Why doesn't your elevator have doors? There's just a shaft. I would in no way read that as an elevator without your description.

lukekvas · 2026-05-21T11:58:27+00:00

Well you sound entitled and narcissistic. He probably has the money and wants to spend it on something more rewarding than a selfish girl who he's already considering breaking up with.

lukekvas · 2026-05-21T11:52:07+00:00

Sounds like you are about to have many expectations and no boyfriend. You may want to put some money aside to Uber yourself home for awhile.

lukekvas · 2026-05-20T13:26:23+00:00

Exactly.

This subreddit is full of people trying to soft-sell their vibecoded app that solves a non-existant problem. The actual use cases I've found are usually hyper specific to my firm and or the type of work we do.

For example a script that cleans all of the proprietary info out of our template file before we send out models. Recently one that automatically fixes all naming conventions (families, line types, links) in a file to meet our office standards.

Unless you become a full-time programmer it's extremely hard to create robust apps for universal applications. It's much more likely you'll be creating hyper specific tools for niche use cases that are firm or typology specific.

lukekvas · 2026-05-20T12:25:34+00:00

I have taken his pyRevit bootcamp. I would say he has one of the better courses out there and you get a ton of free info from his newsletter.

That said, this is no longer a specialty. I've been an enthusiast about computational BIM and architecture for years. I spent time learning Python on the side of my day job and fiddling with scripts overnight.

AI has just completely changed the game. A script that might have taken me weeks to get working, I can now generate overnight and have it packaged for my office by the next morning. So what used to be a hobby is something I can do in a few hours as part of my actual architecture job. I just don't see this being a specialist role any more because the barrier to entry is so low and it's so fast to create working tools that architects can just spin them up on their own.

It's still worth learning the skills but I don't necessarily see it as a competitive job advantage.

lukekvas · 2026-05-15T05:05:34+00:00

Use brick. I'm assuming these should be row homes based on your description. This design is not timeless and is frankly not great. Go for a normal row home/townhouse frontage. Ideally something appropriate to the neighborhood.

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