Coordination Guide for MEP
Quote: “The Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA), in a tripartite project with the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning National Association (SMACNA) and the National Electrical Contractor…
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Graphical XML Editor for Modifying Navisworks files
Navis uses XML as a data interchange format for almost “everything”. However, it sometimes doesn’t offer the greatest editing experience for that same data in the vanilla UI. You will find that variou…
Driving a Revit Material Parameter with Formulas, and Randomizing Materials
I posted about Randomizer a while back. I have since seen it used to randomize the colour of panels. One way to do this is to use a integer or numeric Shared Parameter and View Filters (ie. randomize …
Key Shortcut Loading from in-Canvas
Have you ever wanted to have a shortcut to a series of keyboard shortcuts? For example, you can reload keynotes with a series of keyboard shortcuts, like this. Or, you could record them with reckey, s…
Navisworks Tips for Large Projects
For good navigation performance when clashing large data sets, consider these tips: Set File Options – Frame Rate to 25 Make sure Guarantee Frame Rate and Fill in Detail are on Group all Clashes strai…
The Navisworks 2014 Service Pack 1 Story…
Thanks to Michael Priestman, over at this link: Hiya, The problem is actually a bit deeper than that. In 2014 release, we added an optimisation whereby we only stored GUIDs when required in order to p…
CESABIM, Parameters and BIM for Foodservice
Stewart Millar has contributed to the parameter naming debate / dialogue by providing a set of files from CESABIM. The development of the CESABIM Database has been principally based on the FCSI North …
Are you keeping up with Recap? Have you tried Pro and 360?
To get a Free trial of Autodesk ReCap Pro click on the following link: ReCap Free Trial You can use Autodesk ReCap 360 now for free if you have a Autodesk 360 account. If you don’t have an account, yo…
Interesting Case Study on Energy Analysis and Optimization for Residential Dwellings
From February 6th ORUG meeting, via this link… Slideshow Slides:…
View IFC Data as a Text Tree with this free utility (such as coordinates in an IFC)
From Geometry Gym downloads page:Geometry Gym IFC text tree viewer, Unblock zip (right click Properties) and then unzip into a folder of your choice. ggIFCTreeViewer.zip (4th February 2014) via https:…