https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/Revit, BIM and construction technologyhttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/the-one-ai-skill-that-truly-matters-and-its-not-prompt-engineering/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/the-one-ai-skill-that-truly-matters-and-its-not-prompt-engineering/Welcome to the grid! This is the first of a series where I’ll be sharing observations, learnings, and practical approaches on AI-empowered project management. And to kick things off, let’s have a real talk about some uncomfortable truths… You’ve seen the headlines, the LinkedIn gurus, the endless YouTube tutorials promising that mastering “prompt engineering” is your golden ticket to a six-figure https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/autodesk-pulls-back-auto-processing-desktop-connector-users-must-now-trigger-file-viewing-manually/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/autodesk-pulls-back-auto-processing-desktop-connector-users-must-now-trigger-file-viewing-manually/Very interesting update from Autodesk about ACC below (wonder if this is related to processing costs on the ACC infrastructure side?): “We’re updating how files uploaded to the Files tool in Autodesk Docs using Desktop Connector are processed for viewing. Currently, all files uploaded using Desktop Connector are automatically processed for viewing upon upload. To provide more control and reduce unhttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/free-access-to-revit-knowledge-centre/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/free-access-to-revit-knowledge-centre/Revit legend Chris Price (cofounder of Xrev) has released a full Revit knowledge base over at this link: https://xrev.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KNOW/overview It includes a lot of awesome + detailed sections – check out the How To Guides. Thanks for sharing Chris!https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/stop-putting-your-construction-business-at-risk-with-diy-tech-3-3/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/stop-putting-your-construction-business-at-risk-with-diy-tech-3-3/Every Construction project in the world is at risk, not just from site conditions or supply chain disruptions, but from a much deeper, systemic problem: wasting time and resources on in-house tech solutions.BIM people and Construction businesses need to stop building crap technology solutions in-house. The reason? Simply because doing that is a waste. The ideal of BIM was to avoid waste. But buildhttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/why-bim-managers-are-dumb-2-3/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/why-bim-managers-are-dumb-2-3/AI is not replacing jobs. AI is redefining the value of the human element of work. I don’t need a lawyer to write a letter anymore. I don’t need a BIM manager to write a BIM plan. Such tasks are obviously going to be overtaken by AI. So what value is there in BIM? If I have BIM in my job title, what is next for me? The Construction industry must absorb BIM into its normal flow of work, which is alhttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/bim-workers-must-disrupt-or-be-disrupted-1-3/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/bim-workers-must-disrupt-or-be-disrupted-1-3/Every Construction project in the world is at risk. It is embedded in the DNA of building something to have contingency, to have risk registers, and try and put in place measures to control the unknown. But at the same time, every Construction project in the world is turning a blind eye. They are accepting the status quo. They continue to blindly guess at how long something will take or how much ihttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/when-ai-becomes-your-psychologist/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/when-ai-becomes-your-psychologist/Have you taken this challenge yet?1️⃣ Ask ChatGPT this exact questionFrom all of our interactions, what is one thing you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself💬 This was the answer I got:“One thing I’ve noticed about you from our interactions is your constant drive for innovation, especially in leveraging technology to solve complex, real-world problems. Whether it’s designing Ahttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/sewing-together-the-amputated-digital-twin-buildingsmart-feb-2020/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/sewing-together-the-amputated-digital-twin-buildingsmart-feb-2020/Check out this presentation I did at a BuildingSmart event in February 2020. Does it still hold true in 2024? Modern tools like Deep Space can integrate data from multiple sources, provide analysis, machine learning, and ability to monitor Risks and Opportunities during Design, Construction and Operations. Sewing Together the Amputated Digital Twin (BuildingSmart Feb 2020)Downloadhttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/last-chance-to-access-files-from-bim360-team-on-autodesk-desktop-connector/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/last-chance-to-access-files-from-bim360-team-on-autodesk-desktop-connector/Sometimes you have to say goodbye to old technology to welcome in new ways of doing things. This is the case as BIM 360 Team basically almost dies in 2 weeks… The key message here is: A360 and BIM 360 Team will no longer be available in Desktop Connector after August 15, 2024. What does this mean? To easily backup files now, while you can, you should: login to Autodesk Desktop Connector, browse tohttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/what-the-heck-is-deep-space/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/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 decades of BIM and VDC experience to build Deep Space. Check out this video to find out what Deep Space actually is… and let us know what you think in the comments! Open embedded content: Discover Dehttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/removing-stubborn-shared-parameters-with-deep-space/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/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 Parameter Name for the Shared Parameter GUID). Ok… let’s just remove them from Project Parameters, right? Seems nice and easy. Now let’s add the ‘right’ Shared Parameter using Shared Parameters dialog box. Uhhttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/the-next-generation-ventureon-partners-invest-in-deep-space/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/the-next-generation-ventureon-partners-invest-in-deep-space/Around 9 months ago I decided to step back from the majority of my consulting work and focus on Deep Space, a digital construction project intelligence platform built by myself and Michael Clothier. After a lot of learning, pitching, refining, and due diligence, we were extremely pleased to reach a milestone last week. We were able to finally share with the world that Deep Space has been officiallhttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/what-ai-in-2023-isnt-and-what-embodied-intelligence-is/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/what-ai-in-2023-isnt-and-what-embodied-intelligence-is/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 recently about AI Agents specifically, and even Mr Clippy got a slightly dishonourable mention. But hold on to your chatbots hats, because we are going to go right back to basics… First, let’s define sohttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/knock-knock/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/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 called Deep Space… I hope to one day share the whole story from Architectural drafting, to Revit, to Virtual Built Technology (BIM and VDC Consulting), to Revizto, and finally to where we are today – Dhttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/automated-and-enhanced-integration-and-analysis-with-deep-space-ifc-sync-and-loi-report/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/automated-and-enhanced-integration-and-analysis-with-deep-space-ifc-sync-and-loi-report/I’m very excited to report that the Deep Space platform continues to rapidly evolve, bringing exciting updates that empower civil and infrastructure projects. In a recent release, Deep Space introduced new and enhanced existing synchronization plugins and tools, revolutionizing data acquisition, analysis, and compliance checking. This blog post delves into the key new features of the Deep Space Syhttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/revit-upgrade-error-and-solution-this-computer-does-not-have-enough-memory-to-save/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/revit-upgrade-error-and-solution-this-computer-does-not-have-enough-memory-to-save/As part of a very bad Cloud Model upgrade experience (a story I will tell some other time…) some models failed to upgrade. I was trying to upgrade a file from Revit 2018 to Revit 2022. After upgrading, I was unable to save this file, even though I have a machine with 192GB RAM. Revit reported this message: “This computer does not have enough memory to save…” “Increase the available memory or contahttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/revit-model-hierarchy-sketch/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/revit-model-hierarchy-sketch/Back in 2016 I put this simple, messy sketch together to describe some basic terminology around Revit models and how they are structured: Revit Model: Category Family Type Instance (also known as “Element”) May be hosted by: Levels Grids Reference Planes Faces Special Categories (Floor, Ceiling etc) Nothing May belong to: Phases Worksets Design Options Groups Other Families (nested)https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/downloads-from-revit-lab-session/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/downloads-from-revit-lab-session/These files are from a presentation I did in May 2017 called: Filters Always Win, and Other Ways to Be Better at Revit In the handout especially you will find a lot of Revit tips… check it out! Files: S1_2_Hand_FiltersAlwaysWinBetterAtRevit S1_2_Pres_FiltersAlwaysWinBetterAtRevit S1_2_Ques_FiltersAlwaysWinBetterAtRevit S1_2_TipsTricks_FiltersAlwaysWinBetterAtRevithttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/solution-for-revit-2021-fails-to-link-revit-model-and-provides-no-error-message/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/solution-for-revit-2021-fails-to-link-revit-model-and-provides-no-error-message/Problem: I was recently trying to link Revit models to a federated file on Revit 2021. The models were failing to link, but no error message or warning was provided. The federated host model and the links were all initiated and ‘live’ collaborated models on the Autodesk Construction Cloud. Resolution: I had previously used this method ( Moving the Revit BIM360 CollaborationCache Folder to a Secondhttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/over-100-bim-and-revit-resources-for-free-download/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/over-100-bim-and-revit-resources-for-free-download/I have been receiving a few requests for access to files that were previously linked to What Revit Wants via Google Drive. Somewhere along the line, Google (in its wisdom) decided to change security requirements and now my inbox has been filling up with ‘Share requests’. My opinion on Google business practices in general is pretty well known after this saga. Some of the more popular files requestehttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/remember-to-check-the-revit-ifc-github-site-for-latest-ifc-addins/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/remember-to-check-the-revit-ifc-github-site-for-latest-ifc-addins/If we head over to IFC 2020 | Revit | Autodesk App Store we can see the latest listed version of the IFC Addin for Revit 2020, which is 20.3.2. However, if we head over to revit-ifc Releases page on Github – Releases · Autodesk/revit-ifc · GitHub – then we see that there is a prerelease build for Revit 2020 that is version 20.3.3.0. So this post is just a little reminder to check the releases on Ghttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/how-to-sync-pdfs-from-aconex-to-bim-360-to-revizto-regularly-and-automatically/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/how-to-sync-pdfs-from-aconex-to-bim-360-to-revizto-regularly-and-automatically/First, let’s manage some expectations – Aconex is generally viewed as a closed platform. They seem to deliberately resist platform-level integration with other tools like BIM 360 and Revizto. However, you can achieve the promise in the title of this post – with a bit of work! The basic steps are: Setup a sync between the Aconex Doc Register and Autodesk Docs (BIM 360 Document Management), using thhttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/hotfixes-for-revit-2019-revit-2021-and-revit-2021-direct-download-links/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/hotfixes-for-revit-2019-revit-2021-and-revit-2021-direct-download-links/Following on closely from the release of Revit 2022, you may have seen updates to the previous 3 releases of Revit have been recently released. Here are some links to get you started: Revit 2021 Revit 2021.1.3 Direct Download Link Revit 2021.1.3 Hotfix Release Notes Software embedded in the update executable: Revit 2021 – version 21.1.30.74 Revit Unit Schemas 2021 – version 21.1.30.74 Steel Connechttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/fix-revit-links-not-found-after-the-migration-from-bim-360-docs-to-autodesk-docs/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/fix-revit-links-not-found-after-the-migration-from-bim-360-docs-to-autodesk-docs/When a recent update to Autodesk Desktop Connector forced a migration to Autodesk Docs, file paths were generally change like this: FROM – C:\Users\USERNAME\BIM 360\YOURFOLDERS TO – C:\Users\USERNAME\ACCDocs\YOURFOLDERS If you were doing some interesting tricks with BIM 360 Docs, and sharing and federating Revit models as non-initiated files on BIM 360, you may find that links were broken and “Nothttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/where-to-get-the-latest-versions-of-the-ifc-for-revit-addin/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/where-to-get-the-latest-versions-of-the-ifc-for-revit-addin/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 current Revit versions, and I have collected the direct links for you below. Note that the GitHub versions can be more up-to-date and current than the ones listed on the App Store. IFC for Revit 2021,https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/automatically-converting-big-revit-elements-into-fabrication-ready-components/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/automatically-converting-big-revit-elements-into-fabrication-ready-components/Revit lets you model things that you can’t necessarily build, which shouldn’t surprise us given that “Revit was intended to allow architects and other building professionals to design and document a building” 🙂 wiki However, in recent times Revit is getting used more and more for fabrication workflows, with core Revit features, addins, and Dynamo scripts developing to make that happen. With that ihttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/how-to-gain-access-to-old-revit-versions/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/how-to-gain-access-to-old-revit-versions/Every now and then you come across a project that is still using a super-old version of Revit (remember Revit 2017? Yeah, it was released about 5 years ago…) You might have found that your old versions of Revit have actually stopped working or stopped activating due to Autodesk license system changes. So… how can you get access to Revit 2017 or other old Revit versions? As recent as November 2020,https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/parsing-a-csv-with-line-breaks-in-the-data-fields/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/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, particularly for changes in the quantities of specific types of elements. A ‘data drop’ is a set of data or files that you receive at a given point in time. In the course of exporting the Navisworks data throuhttps://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/using-phase-filters-and-graphic-overrides-when-nothing-else-works-in-revit/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/using-phase-filters-and-graphic-overrides-when-nothing-else-works-in-revit/I have recently developed a few Material and Object Procurement and Tracking solutions, primarily using Deep Space and Revizto together. These workflows also involved IFCs converted into Revit, so we could automatically set tracking parameters from Deep Space data back into Revit, and colourise the models. When converting Revit to IFC, I usually use IFC Link functionality, primarily for speed and https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/exporting-navisworks-saved-viewpoints-to-bcf-for-use-in-revizto/https://wrw.blackgrid.com.au/exporting-navisworks-saved-viewpoints-to-bcf-for-use-in-revizto/As you know, Revizto is the best Integrated Collaboration Platform on the market today, especially if we are talking about AEC and BIM Coordination and Management. However, some people and companies still do things ‘the old way’. For example, some companies still create Viewpoints in Navisworks, share those Viewpoints as actions, and call that ‘coordination’ or ‘collaboration’ (which it really isn