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Deep Space

What the Heck is Deep Space?

What really is the Deep Space Construction Intelligence Platform?? For the past 5 years or so I have been diving deep into Construction data and automation, and along with Michael Clothier we used our…

2024-04-30 · Luke Johnson
Deep Space

Removing Stubborn Shared Parameters with Deep Space

I came across an interesting issue today. We were automating Revit data parameters for a mandated IFC deliverable, but we came across some Shared Parameters that were added incorrectly (wrong Paramete…

2024-04-12 · Luke Johnson
Artificial Intelligence

AI in 2023 and the Emergence of Embodied Intelligence

Yes, I’m going to do this. I’m going to write another post about a widely used term and try to untangle reality from the fiction. Let’s talk about the term “AI”… Mr Gates wrote a compelling article re…

2023-11-27 · Luke Johnson
Deep Space

Knock Knock…

Is anyone still here? Yes!! And it isn’t an AI bot either! I know it has been a bit quiet around What Revit Wants lately, and you might have guessed that it has something to do with a little startup c…

2023-11-20 · Luke Johnson
Deep Space

Parsing a CSV with Line Breaks in the Data Fields

I was recently working on a multi-vector dataset comparison in Deep Space. We had received Revit, Navisworks and tabular data, and I was comparing 3 different data drops of that information, particula…

2020-12-26 · Luke Johnson
Deep Space

Deep Space Sync for Revit Updated

Over the past few years we have been building and refining a data platform for AEC and Infrastructure projects – we call it Deep Space. It has allowed us to manage huge projects, develop powerful anal…

2020-05-22 · Luke Johnson