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2014-02

Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.

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Major BIM Codes, Standards and Reports in one place?

There have been various attempts over the years to create a true BIM portal, with links to all relevant documentation. Have you checked out CODEBIM? The reports page is pretty impressive list of BIM d…

2014-02-19 · Luke Johnson
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Coordination Guide for MEP

Quote: “The Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA), in a tripartite project with the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning National Association (SMACNA) and the National Electrical Contractor…

2014-02-18 · Luke Johnson
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Graphical XML Editor for Modifying Navisworks files

Navis uses XML as a data interchange format for almost “everything”. However, it sometimes doesn’t offer the greatest editing experience for that same data in the vanilla UI. You will find that variou…

2014-02-17 · Luke Johnson
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Key Shortcut Loading from in-Canvas

Have you ever wanted to have a shortcut to a series of keyboard shortcuts? For example, you can reload keynotes with a series of keyboard shortcuts, like this. Or, you could record them with reckey, s…

2014-02-13 · Luke Johnson
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Navisworks Tips for Large Projects

For good navigation performance when clashing large data sets, consider these tips: Set File Options – Frame Rate to 25 Make sure Guarantee Frame Rate and Fill in Detail are on Group all Clashes strai…

2014-02-12 · Luke Johnson
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The Navisworks 2014 Service Pack 1 Story…

Thanks to Michael Priestman, over at this link: Hiya, The problem is actually a bit deeper than that. In 2014 release, we added an optimisation whereby we only stored GUIDs when required in order to p…

2014-02-11 · Luke Johnson
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CESABIM, Parameters and BIM for Foodservice

Stewart Millar has contributed to the parameter naming debate / dialogue by providing a set of files from CESABIM. The development of the CESABIM Database has been principally based on the FCSI North …

2014-02-11 · Luke Johnson
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Are you keeping up with Recap? Have you tried Pro and 360?

To get a Free trial of Autodesk ReCap Pro click on the following link: ReCap Free Trial You can use Autodesk ReCap 360 now for free if you have a Autodesk 360 account. If you don’t have an account, yo…

2014-02-10 · Luke Johnson