Practical ideas for Revit, BIM and construction technology. Built from years of shared experience.
titledPart 4: Fulfilling employer’s information exchange requirements using COBie – Code of practice Fill in the form to get your free copy at:http://shop.bsigroup.com/forms/BS-1192-4/ or use this lin…
The View “Discipline” setting in Revit is a high level visibility control that can have some significant consequences on how a view actually looks. Amongst other things, it works as a high level switc…
Open an elevated command prompt (Start – type cmd – right click Run as Administrator) @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command “iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString(‘htt…
The latest version of CTC BIM Project Suite installs an Explorer extension that can list the following without even opening Revit: Saved with Revit version Saved with Revit build Last saved path Is Re…
Paper by Robert Currer and Jason Pickup. View and download at:BIM & Precast Concrete – A Strategic Guide to Adoption and Implementation | Jason Pickup – Academia.edu via LinkedIn…
Maybe this quote from Al Beckes in AUGI World (October 2014) will help:…
“Revit makes available the following IFC-specific files: IFC Metric Template.rte. This file allows you to create new projects that are already set to the IFC standard. IFC Parameter Upgrade.rvt. This …
It hasn’t shown up on Exchange yet, but it is already available for download on the Sourceforge page. There is an update to IFC 2015 (the one that is really robust, fast and accurate for Import and Ex…
I’m not saying that AceCad BIMReview is a great program, but its another free tool to keep in mind. There is also a good list going at http://bimblog.bondbryan.com/interoperability/, which includes:BI…
The open house is getting more ‘open’ every day. Go here to join the project:Enter Revit Skyscraper Open House Project After joining and logging in, access the downloads section, download the ZIP file…