BIM Explained in Simple Terms
A while back on the There’s no BIM like home, there was a very interesting post that aimed to use simple language to describe BIM projects and process. According to the author, the XKCD Simple Writer …
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Batch Repathing Revit Links to BIM 360 Document Management
I previously posted about how to quickly repath links based on some control mechanisms. Enter BIM 360, and the wild world of Revit cloud worksharing… I expect that it will be commonplace now for exist…
Revizto Now Allows Grouping by Tag in Dashboards and Charts
Revizto continues to improve its very powerful web Dashboard features. The web Dashboard gives a live view of issues for your team, and can be completely customised to give the most focused overview o…
Using BIM 360 Document Management in Revit
To be able to use the new BIM360 Design or BIM 360 Document Management in Revit you need to be able to see ‘Document Management’ after clicking the BIM 360 link in the Revit Open Dialog box: Revit 201…
Methods of Linking Revit Models in BIM 360 Design (Docs)
Check out this page from Autodesk Knowledge base. Notice how it describes three different ways of linking for BIM 360 Design projects that involve Revit worksharing: Method 1 – Controlled Sharing – ‘C…
BIM 360 Is Very Down Right Now
Interesting to see that many BIM360 services are offline right now (approx 10am Australian time, 1 June 2018): You can always check Autodesk online service health at this link: Autodesk Health Dashboa…
Fixing “Value ‘preferred’ is not of the correct type” Error in Power BI and MySQL
When using MySQL with Power BI Desktop, you may come across this error: Value 'preferred' is not of the correct type It seems that this is caused by an incompatibility between Power BI Desktop and a l…
Cleaning Up Your Dynamo View
Big messy Dynamo graph? Can’t see through the jungle? Then try: View – Connectors – Show Connectors OFF View – Background 3D Preview – Show Grid OFF…
Use a Linked Model Container to Populate Nested Links in a Federated Model
At Virtual Built, we typically create a federated Revit model for every project we work on. This allows us to run a host of automated processes on the links, right from the federated file. Recently we…
Batch Creation of Project Directory Structure on BIM 360 Docs
I’m looking into ways to batch initialize Revit models onto the new BIM 360 Docs (Document Management) platform. It is a work in progress at the moment – in Revit 2018, I think that there is limited a…