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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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Thanks to @BIM4GIB we have a script to automatically download the latest Uniclass 2015 tables from the NBS website. You basically download and unzip, then run the script and you get a Uniclass2015 dat…
I have developed a working BIM360 to on-premises backup mechanism. There were a few different ways to go… I initially considered: Hacking Windows Explorer to touch the files in the BIM 360 node and tr…
Update: It was pointed out to me by someone on the inside that the workflow I describe below essentially amounts to a back-channel unsupported and in fact inappropriate use of BIM 360 Docs. I was surp…