eVox – a Revit Bill of Quantities add-in
Strangely enough, I recently came across two different BOQ methodologies for Revit – one is an addin, another is a cloud based solution. This post is about the addin, called eVox, by Luca Vocella. To …
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Revit – Most Frequently Used Commands (visual.ly graphic)
Autodesk Revit Commands infographic…
BIM and VDC for FM – an exciting trend, but when will it become a commonplace reality?
Read the post:http://www.bdcnetwork.com/building-owners-cite-bimvdc-most-exciting-trend-facilities-management-says-mortenson-report Full report:http://www.mortenson.com/resources/images/21396.pdf…
BIM and VDC tips for multi-disciplinary coordination
There is a lot of practical wisdom presented in this recent article by Gensler’s Jared Krieger. He recommends against “BIM execution plans as long as 50 pages, with page after page of information and …
Using Shared Parameters to access data from built-in Family parameters and allow them to be flexibly tagged
EDIT: This seems to be broken in 2014 at this point. Even if you have it working in 2013, when you open in 2014 it will “break”. I’m unsure if there is a good workaround yet… Absolutely awesome workar…
A little Revit deployment tip
“As an alternative to controlling Revit tools and analysis features using the Options dialog > User Interface tab, you can define the DisciplineOption setting in the Revit.ini file.” Use this link to …
E57 point cloud data and the Revit / BIM workflow
Key website for E57 data and resources:http://libe57.org/ Some basic info from the website: Is the E57 format XML? The E57 specification uses a subset of XML that has been extended to support efficien…
GRAITEC Revit add-in
“quickly connect … Revit models to the GRAITEC Advance suite and then optimize the design of their structures in accordance with North American and Eurocode standards and produce effective and error-f…
How to Tag Elements that are outside the View Range of the current Plan in Revit
Turn the Underlay on for the Level that shows the items you want to Tag Tag the Item/s Use Linework tool on the items that you have tagged. This is important – if you don’t do this, then the Tag will …
How to list all files in a directory and subdirectories into a CSV using Windows Powershell
I wanted to grab a list of files so I could check if I had reviewed the contents of some MEP training videos. You can easily do this using a Windows Powershell script. Code example: get-childitem “T:M…