BIM Hardware and Software Survey 2017
I kind of hate surveys. They seem to be a bit of waste of time, right? Hypocritically, I have created a mini-survey on Twitter. It covers topics like: primary BIM software in use BIM hardware, includi…
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Flatten Text Elevation In AutoCAD to Fix “Extents Greater Than” When Linking to Revit
You may have seen the “extents greater than 20 miles (33km)” warning in Revit before: Extents greater than 20 miles (33km) I have previously posted about ways to clean up DWG files, best and worst pra…
What does BIM for MEP look like in 2014?
Check out the survey results from Design Master Software – interesting that 2/3 using Revit over AutoCAD: And how does MEP industry take-up of BIM compare with what was expected in 2011? As with any s…
Revit Survey Point and Coordinates Explained
Video: Matthew Miller recently gave high praise to this class, when he posted that David Baldacchino’s class AB412 Navigating Through the Storm Using Coordinate Systems in Revit “has been the best exp…
When and how to neutralize Survey coordinates for IFC export from Revit
When exporting to IFC, you may find that Revit feeds the Survey Coordinates (or shared coordinates) to the resulting IFC file, when in fact you want it to be based on Project Coordinates. If your proj…
What is your opinion of BIM?
In a recent Twitter experiment, I posted three different opinions of BIM and have been monitoring the response through Retweets. Here are the results (as these are embedded tweets, the results will ch…
Using your Revit model for construction site layout by converting to points with Point Layout
Interesting – this kind of turns the point cloud technology upside down… It goes something like this: Revit model to points to site survey hardware (set out the building) build it then laser scan the …
Using Civil3D to increase your Topography resolution in Revit
You receive a DWG file from a surveyor, and you need to get it into Revit. You go through all the usual cleanup steps. You have purged, scaled, done a write-block, audited. You link the DWG into Revit…
Are you satisfied with Revit?
Join the Revit Customer Council if you want to participate in the 2012 Revit customer satisfaction survey. The good part is that you get the survey results sent to you once they have been compiled.…
Revit® Architecture Satisfaction Survey Results 2011
If you are part of the Revit® Customer Council and you undertook the “annual survey on your Satisfaction with the Revit® Architecture product from Autodesk”, then you probably have received the result…