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MEP tip – What to do with Lookup Tables?

via Twitter: Tip: Pipe fittings in #Revit #MEP need CSV’s to operate. Centralize your Lookup Tables on your server to help standardize! @autodeskrevit— Jeremy Schmidt (@BIMSchmidt) May 15, 2013…

2013-06-21 · Luke Johnson
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Dutch Revit Standards for download

Dutch Revit standard (template) for download: Download – RevitGG.nlTranslated version There is a link to download version 0.8 from Dropbox at this page. The download includes content like: project tem…

2013-05-08 · Luke Johnson
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BIM Standards – list is now expanded, and sortable

Martí Broquetas list of BIM standards has been updated:He “turned the list into a table that can be sorted clicking on the headers. THis way it is easy to sort the standards by country,or date or name…

2013-03-11 · Luke Johnson
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BIM Standards for download

The sheer volume of different BIM standards can be confusing in itself – and that is without even considering the a) usefulness, b) applicability, c) practicality or d) up-to-date-ness of these differ…

2013-02-21 · Luke Johnson
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A very quick trademark post

There has been lots of verbiage flying around the interwebs lately regarding the use of Autodesk trademarks in domain names. I recently surrendered www.revitprofessionals.com (quite happily), in order…

2012-11-20 · Luke Johnson
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Railing families – November 2012

I recently downloaded the Revit (railing) files from Moddex Systems. If you want to access them, go to the following page and follow the links to register: Moddex – CAD Support(you can also go direct …

2012-11-04 · Luke Johnson
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18000 free families from familit – Revit Family Library

While familit do have a browser / content manager add-in, this is a paid product (if you are looking for free family browser, check out tools4revit). However, the family content itself at familit is f…

2012-10-08 · Luke Johnson
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Revit content creation standards

There are quite a few different content ‘standards’ being bandied about lately, from ANZRS to the Revit Model Content Style Guide. There is a partial list of these content standards at the page below:…

2012-05-14 · Luke Johnson
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IFC Exporters and Importers and Tips

First off, a couple of links to Exporter add-ins for Revit 2013: IFC Exporter on SourceforgeAutodesk Exchange Apps – IFC Exporter for Revit There have also been a few quite a few posts on other blogs …

2012-04-23 · Luke Johnson
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Free platform neutral BIM object library to be launched today

If you aren’t excited about a community sourced list of links to Revit content, then maybe you are interested in a platform-neutral library of … BIM objects? We are delighted to confirm that following…

2012-03-19 · Luke Johnson