Updated Light Analysis for Revit on Labs
You have less than one month to try the cloud based Daylighting Analysis before it expires on 30 April. More info is at:http://autodesk.typepad.com/bpa/2014/03/another-update-of-light-analysis-for-rev…
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Is this the next challenge for AEC consulting Engineers and Architects?
For years, Architects and in some cases Engineers have seen their project involvement slowly diminish as new niche disciplines take over parts of the project delivery process. Once upon a time, an Arc…
An open, crowd-sourced library of IFC and BIM files
Ryan Schultz is working on Revit–>IFC–>Revit translations, and he has created a open source page as a focus for test and sample files. Here is the link: https://github.com/theoryshaw/IFC_Roundtrip Int…
PAS1192-3 for download, helping make BIM for FM a reality?
Download PAS 1192-3 Specification for information management for the operational phase of assets using building information modelling (BIM) viahttps://twitter.com/BIMgcs/status/450705164635471873 Dire…
Controlling Reference Planes with Angle Parameters in the Family Editor
In a somewhat unexpected post, landarchBIM has described a method of inferring the movement of a Reference Plane that is driven by an angle parameter. This probably falls outside of the “best practice…
Grasshopper and Rhino to Revit via IFC, with editable Structural Family import
This is a Geometry Gym demo, showing the use of the baketoifc and importifc tools: via Advanced #IFC workflow. http://t.co/uY06ywGqJY Users need to demand more from software for improved collaboration…
Recap Pro 2015 video
Open embedded content: www.youtube.com via Cadgroup Community -> Autodesk Recap Goes Pro!…
Using Google Docs and Drive to Upload, Share and View any PDF DOC PPT TIFF XPS SVG and more
1) Upload and share your document on Google Drive 2) Create a permalink at: http://gdurl.com/ 3) Use the gd.url link in the Drive Viewer: Google Docs – Viewer Supported types:…
Assembly Codes & Uniformat addin to allow quick searching and setting in Revit
Harry has put together a nice Revit addin UI for searching, choosing and setting Uniformat and Omniclass codes. You can read his post and view the video at: A better way to set Assembly Codes & Unifor…
Using Link IFC in Revit 2015
Daniel has created a useful post describing how IFC Link works in Revit 2015. Here are some key points from his post, as well as some of my own: You must set a default project template before using th…