What does BIM for MEP look like in 2014?
Check out the survey results from Design Master Software – interesting that 2/3 using Revit over AutoCAD: And how does MEP industry take-up of BIM compare with what was expected in 2011? As with any s…
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Tested: Using Able2Extract to convert PDFs to Vector information for use in CAD and BIM
Able2Extract can export a pdf to various formats: In my testing, I opened a 97mb pdf file in Bluebeam and extracted one page to a separate pdf file for conversion. I opened this pdf in Able2Extract an…
GTeam launched as Trimble Connect for BIM team project collaboration, with free trial
Sign up at: Welcome to Trimble Connect | Trimble Connect Here is what the dashboard looks like: Marketing stuff:…
Why and How should you Switch from CADmep to Revit with SysQue (video)
Open embedded content: www.youtube.com via Jim Reis on LinkedIn Source video page: TSI User Group 2014 Making the Switch CADmep to Revit with SysQue – YouTube Video description Customer Presentation: …
Restart Google Drive process automatically each day with a Windows Task to Fix Sync Problems
Sometimes Google Drive isn’t happy when you have it syncing large folders of often-changing files (sounds like a BIM environment, yeah?) But usually, all it needs is to restart the googledrivesync pro…
How to Override the Lineweight of a Nested Generic Annotation in a Linked File while working in a Host File
Oh wait, you can’t… put more simply, you cannot override the lineweight of Generic Annotations for a linked file. In fact, it turns out you can’t override lineweights for anything, including Model ele…
Top 11 Tips and Tricks for Revit (download)
Ok , admittedly it was for Revit 2013, but this is still a great pdf to have handy, especially if any new users haven’t seen it before:http://betterrevit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Top-11-Tips-Tri…
From Rhino to Revit with Dynamo, Grasshopper, Python and mantis shrimp
Konrad and Mostapha are working on something, and the functionality does not look shrimpy at all. Check it out: “Mantis Shrimp is a Dynamo (Revit) and Grasshopper (Rhino) interoperability project that…
Editing Keyboard Shortcuts in Navisworks
Most of you would be aware of keyboardshortcuts.xml in Revit. However, did you know about RoamerCommands.xml? This file lives in the Layout folder under you Navisworks install, and it can be edited to…
How to get Energy Analysis for Dynamo – Open Beta (CORE studio)
Quote: Finally, a few links, details and instructions for those of you who want to get rolling with the tools. The nodes are available in Dynamo’s package manager, using a recent daily build of Dynamo…