Winning the Job – A Lumion 9 Review
I’ve recently had the chance to put the new Lumion 9 through it’s paces. Why Lumion At Virtual Built Technology amongst the many BIM services we offer, we also create construction visualisations and a…
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Construction Animations
One of the many BIM Services we provide at Virtual Built Technology is Construction Animations and Visualisations. Check out our latest Demo Reel! Open embedded content: www.youtube.com Let us know wh…
Revizto for Infrastructure Projects – Saves Thousands and Keeps Team on Track
What technology stack should you use when managing and collaborating on a significant and complicated design-build infrastructure project? Stantec recently shared their workflow on their Ideas website…
Free BIM and VDC Management Resources for Download
Over at Virtual Built Technology, we have an aspirational view of our industry – that together, we can arrive at a set of best practice workflows for BIM and VDC projects. We have been developing and …
Decimating a Point Cloud in Recap for use in Revizto
It is extremely easy to reduce the size of a point cloud dataset using Recap. “Decimation” is the process of discarding points from the data to improve performance and reduce disk usage. With the rele…
Revit 2018.3.2 Security Fix and Revit 2017.2.4 Security Fix Download Links
Harlan Brumm recently tweeted about updates to Revit: so you might have noticed, we released a number of fixes for Revit versions. These are important fixes to address security issues and to ensure yo…
Free Keyboard and Mouse Sharing Between Computers
Once you start to run more than 4 monitors, most computers start to struggle. So, then you need more computers to have more monitors 🙂 And then, you need to share one keyboard and mouse across multipl…
Grouping Navisworks Clashes with iConstruct and Retain Existing Groups
Experienced Navisworks Coordinators typically have a very solid workflow in place for grouping clashes into clash groups. Some prefer to do that part manually (with selection and filters), so they can…
Shared Coordinates and the Revit API (Read this if you think you are going crazy)
I’m sure you are aware that intellectually Revit shared coordinates take minutes to explain, but emotionally they take years to master 🙂 I’ve been looking for a way to check and validate coordinates u…
Linking Non-Initiated BIM 360 Files into Revit
If you have Desktop Connector installed, you probably realise you can ‘upload’ Revit models and other files to BIM 360 Docs by dragging and dropping to the folder in Windows Explorer (using Desktop Co…