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The IFC for Revit addins that improve IFC import and export functionality are maintained at this GitHub site for versions newer than Revit 2018. In the past 2 weeks, updates have been release for all …
As software and standards mature and even become archaic, they inevitably attract baggage along the way. Years of technical debt amassed by well-intentioned developers and product managers will be pai…
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…
If you try to build a connector to get some Revit data to a database like MySQL, you may hit an issue where some strings that are allowed in Revit will do funny things to your SQL instructions, like t…
Revit natively supports importing Sketchup up to version 8. If you want to import ‘new’ Trimble Sketchup files, like some nice content you have download from 3D Warehouse, you have at least 2 differen…
The BIM Collaboration Format is getting more popular and more widely supported as the months go by. I was interested to find to this little command line utility that quickly creates a PDF file from a …
I have posted some other methods before… Batch Convert DWF to Revit using Navisworks How to Convert a DWF to Editable Format, or How to Export from Navisworks and Keep Modelling in BIM Export Geometry…
Links below: IFC for Revit 2015 (v15.6): http://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3aifc2015_windows32and64%3aen IFC for Revit 2016 (v16.3): http://apps.e…
Sometimes you have a set of DWFs that you would like to work with in Revit. For example, you might have DWFs of site equipment, fences and trucks that would be useful for site modelling in Revit. Here…
Updated links: https://www.autodesk.com/developer-network/platform-technologies/fbx-converter-archives Windows FBX 2013.3 Converter for Windows FBX 2013.2 Converter for Windows FBX 2013.3 Converter fo…