Navisworks 2014 SP1 NWF Refresh Hotfix
This hotfix addresses issues with NWF refresh causing Navisworks to crash following installation of Navisworks 2014 Service Pack 1. Download at:http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=1…
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What Use is BIM Really? Is there more than one? (PDF)
To oversimplify, this document essentially forms a categorized glossary of terms that show how the BIM process works and what kind of information is generated by it. Excerpt: Download it at:http://bim…
Addins for Design Review
Probably the browser one is the most interesting… Oh, is it only me that finds the misspelling of accuracy quite hilarious 🙂 JT Import Add-inEnables JT files to be accessed from within Design Review w…
Finding Something that is Hidden by Element using a Schedule
Using Schedules, you can usually use Highlight in Model to find an element (or group of elements) from a schedule row. However, this does not work if the element is hidden in the only view that it is …
A Realistic Look at BIM and Revit in Landscape Architecture
From a post by Stephen Blacklock:In early 2013 we started work on a live full-site BIM project … Agreeing the deliverables at the outset (and being totally truthful about what we could actually delive…
Revit View Settings and Effect on Navisworks export / import – plus a Model Line workaround via IFC
Interesting post by Ben a while back on the impact of Revit view settings when exporting to Navisworks. In most cases, this is “logical” – if you can see it, it will get exported, but if you can’t see…
Dynamo List sorting – various methods, different Packages, plus a bit of Python?
Check out the solution suggested by Andreas Dieckmann: “I ended up using one of Python’s abilities to handle lists which is called groupby() because I did not want my head to hurt thinking about how t…
Full list of Actions for Coordination Review
Not all actions will be available in all circumstances… When performing a coordination review, you can specify how to handle each change in the current project. To specify an action for a change, clic…
Making a Curtain Wall with Double Glazing
John Flanagan details an interesting concept in a recent post – he shows how you can use a Basic Wall with two Glazing layers separated by a core layer to essentially model double glazing systems. You…
Automatically Model Shape Edited Floors from Point Clouds
I’ve always felt that the Floor tool in Scan to BIM is a bit lacking – rather than analysing and deforming an existing Floor element, I want it to work like the Topo tool (just select a bunch of point…