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Many of us use Tekla BIMsight or Solibri for IFC viewing, but there is another free option: FZK Viewer. It is just a 10mb download, unzip and go. It has a Walk tool like Navisworks for easy navigation…
You can get it through the Case addin manager: Not much documentation available yet, but you can refer to my previous post on how it works:Convert Navisworks Viewpoints into Revit 3D Views for rapid c…
Something popped up on Exchange recently, got tweeted, and then disappeared… but now its back! This addin allows simple import of PDFs directly into the Navisworks 2015 Project Browser as sheets that …
I enjoyed reading a recent, brutally honest and candid post by Luke Johnston (not me 🙂 over at Britex. Here are a few pertinent points: “You only have to scan the room at the various ‘BIM groups’ that…
A great way to test if you know What Revit Wants is to try and run a complicated high rise or health facility using model groups. The principle and general functionality of groups is fine, but they ca…
Direct link:download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/2015/NAVISWORKS/NAVMAN/153.114009/Autodesk_Navisworks_2015_Service_Pack_1_Multilingual_Manage_64bit.msp…
The release of the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) Global Digital Elevation Model Version 2 (GDEM V2) was announced on October 17, 2011. This data can be downloa…
via SARUG blog: Also see: What Revit Wants: Revit 2003 was still pretty great…
This 2007 research paper by Dr M M Nour gives an overview of IFC and some of the challenges of using it in a collaborative BIM environment. It posits a potential solutions that it calls FIOPE. It also…
Check it out at Revit Coaster:Macro to change all families to the same LEADER ARROWHEAD style viahttps://twitter.com/BigBadBIM/status/474353350910042112…