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2002 Building Information Modeling (BIM) Structural Systems 
Revit OpEd
MAY 10, 2012
BIM Coordinator for Civil 3D and Revit. You can read more information HERE. It allows a Civil 3D user to define the shared coordinate system to be passed on to a Revit project. Note that it uses a file formatted as ACCSXML (Autodesk Consulting Coordinate System eXtensible Markup Language). Builds and Updates.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 4, 2012
Kitchen Equipment - RW Smith BIM Booklet. The company recently finished up their BIM Services booklet hosted by Issuu. I can see why, polished presentation as well as high quality modeling work. Labels: BIM , content , Contractor , Plugs , Vendor. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Revit OpEd.
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Revit OpEd
MARCH 30, 2012
RTCUSA - Cannon Contest - I Heart BIM. The entries have to submit 100 words about why they love BIM. I Love BIM" awwww. Its a heart modeled in Revit. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Friday, March 30, 2012. Okay, have to post an echo.
Revit OpEd
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
It seems unlikely to me that Revit LT will truly serve any notion of BIM other than " lonely BIM ". Then again it isnt uncommon to hear people working in the market LT is focused on saying something like, "BIM doesnt matter to what we do." Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information.
Revit OpEd
MAY 9, 2012
When Revit Systems was released in 2006, the essence of Autodesks marketing commentary was, "this is new software so it probably doesnt make sense to tackle a project with it unless the architecture team is using Revit too." There wasnt a Revit Structure or MEP when Revit was introduced. Builds and Updates. Site Information.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 4, 2012
Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Refer to Autodesks own web site and product pages for specific trademark and copyright information.
Revit OpEd
MAY 14, 2012
I think they left it in there to make it easy to spot terrible modellers who do not actually create their own ceiling or model correctly. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. BIM Coordinator for Civil 3D and Revit. 3 comments: Erik. Older Post.
Revit OpEd
SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
It is an awesome way to resolve little matters when people are all out of the model. For 2013: [link] The procedure that Steve is describing has become more prevalent in 2012 and beyond due to tagging through linked models. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 11, 2012
Wall Floor Interaction and Linked Models. When we have architecture and structure in separate Revit models we end up with somewhat clumsy graphics in wall sections. This is more pronounced if the structural slab is in the structure model only. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 14, 2012
Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Refer to Autodesks own web site and product pages for specific trademark and copyright information.
Revit OpEd
JULY 20, 2012
For Autodesk Revit Architecture, Autodesk Revit Structure, and Autodesk Revit MEP, you can find the update in the Data & Downloads > Updates section of each product page: Autodesk Revit Architecture 2013 UR1. Autodesk Revit Structure 2013 UR1. Improves section creation within a project with linked model. Builds and Updates.
Revit OpEd
SEPTEMBER 6, 2012
In this image the massing has been created aligned with the "site" but weve realized that it would be easier to document if Project North were aligned along one building edge. As I wrote in my reply there, RTN is sleight of hand while RPN is really altering the entire model and related views to change orientation. Builds and Updates.
Revit OpEd
JUNE 13, 2012
These divisions, while relevant to the architectural model, are ruining the possibilities of creating gbXML files without extensive work on the part of the engineer to remove the room separation lines, and then repair the damage done to the room names and numbers. Joe - in the examples he offered it isn't "poor" modeling.
Revit OpEd
JULY 19, 2012
These adjustments change the 3D model, not just the 2D plan-view. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Older Post. Revit OpEd.
72 Revit OpEd
APRIL 6, 2012
Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Refer to Autodesks own web site and product pages for specific trademark and copyright information.
Revit OpEd
JULY 27, 2012
I was musing about a recent conversation where one guys position was that BIM is hype, unnecessary and worse really just being foisted upon our profession in a scheme to get more money from "us". It seems to me this notion of using Revit (BIM) and "us" isnt all that different. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 10, 2012
Model Groups = Finish and Cancel. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Wall Floor Interaction and Linked Models. Older Post.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 3, 2012
Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Refer to Autodesks own web site and product pages for specific trademark and copyright information.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 11, 2012
Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Refer to Autodesks own web site and product pages for specific trademark and copyright information.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 13, 2012
Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Refer to Autodesks own web site and product pages for specific trademark and copyright information.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 12, 2012
Autodesk Revit Model Review 2013. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Wall Floor Interaction and Linked Models. Older Post.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 25, 2012
Rooms and areas can be deleted in model views like floor plans and ceiling plans. Revit warns us that they have been deleted from the model but they are still listed in schedules. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Older Post. Revit OpEd Sub Pages.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 9, 2012
I included the following tips and advice (edited a little in this version) in a door tutorial I wrote for my Autodesk University 2005 lab called "Autodesk Revit Building Family Editor: From the Beginning". Make a system type parameter into an instance parameter, select dimension with a label in view, check instance parameter in option bar.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 3, 2012
The opening families are still assigned to the category Generic Model. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Older Post. Revit OpEd.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 18, 2012
The whole model is still there, just not visible, thatll provide some relief for performance sake. Recently I was working with a team, their building is a million square feet overall, and opening the whole file took considerably longer than selectively focusing on a single sectors workset. Building Shell or Envelope.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 16, 2012
Labels: Beams , Columns , Revit Structure , Tips. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Wall Floor Interaction and Linked Models.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 23, 2012
Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Refer to Autodesks own web site and product pages for specific trademark and copyright information.
Revit OpEd
AUGUST 26, 2012
This information has been sitting in my inbox for a week now. Autodesk Vasari Beta 1 is a slimmed down version of Revit 2013 focusing on conceptual modeling and early analysis. Detailed BIM modeling tools have been removed. I have read that in Vasari, one can edit a model in perspective view. Builds and Updates.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 24, 2012
Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Refer to Autodesks own web site and product pages for specific trademark and copyright information.
Revit OpEd
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
The concept of View Discipline appeared with Revit Structure. It was meant to make it simple to alter the appearance of our model to be more in sync with what a structural engineer wants to see. 3)The changes that Discipline applies should be indicated in Visibility Graphics (halftoning to model category, etc.)
Revit OpEd
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
They recently announced that theyre offering a software solution to bring 3D as-built models of pipes and other cylindrical MEP elements directly into Revit. However, the accuracy and utility of the model is greatly enhanced by the use of custom families. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 19, 2012
System families have a Function setting. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Wall Floor Interaction and Linked Models.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 5, 2012
The first book is Mastering Autodesk Revit Structure 2010 (Wiley/Sybex). That could mean structural engineers are too smart for it, or just werent interested in a book, or that the authors, editors and publisher didnt do a good enough job marketing it, or that it just wasnt very good. Thanks for the confidence building!
Revit OpEd
APRIL 20, 2012
Mostly related: You'd think it would be useful to be able to compare the Survey Point in a Link to the Survey Point in the parent model, no? Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Wall Floor Interaction and Linked Models. Older Post. Revit OpEd.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 24, 2012
Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Refer to Autodesks own web site and product pages for specific trademark and copyright information.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 13, 2012
The fact that they modeled them to the extent of showing the inner diameter was my first "oh no." Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Refer to Autodesks own web site and product pages for specific trademark and copyright information. Older Post.
Revit OpEd
AUGUST 18, 2012
I used a pair of model lines (assigned to Invisible) to govern the location of the arc and line endpoints. In the thread at AUGI the member that started it all replied that he figured out how to solve it after reading a post at BIM & BEAM. What you describe as working doesn't work on the model lines in my example.
Revit OpEd
AUGUST 14, 2012
We propose building a Superhero Theme Park! All final model submissions must be in a “ rvt” or “ rfa” format. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. This is the text from the latest competition from DesignbyMany. Objectives.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 12, 2012
Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Refer to Autodesks own web site and product pages for specific trademark and copyright information.
Revit OpEd
JUNE 14, 2012
The warning tells us that this situation may affect the graphic depiction of information on screen. Turned out that somehow there was a Room Tag 69,000,000 feet from the model. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Yes, that's 69 million. Older Post.
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Revit OpEd
APRIL 17, 2012
I think that it is natural to be inclined toward building very parametric families. As a content creator, I absolutely love it when I can make a one-off model instead of a fully parametric family that is fully customizable. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. 11:20 AM. Older Post.
Revit OpEd
APRIL 2, 2012
Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Any reference to Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit MEP or Revit Structure on this site is made acknowledging this ownership. Refer to Autodesks own web site and product pages for specific trademark and copyright information.
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Building Information Management
DECEMBER 2, 2012
Efficient construction delivery methods (IPD – integrated project delivery, JOC – job order contracting), cloud computing, and BIM are all integral components. Symposium Title: Integrating BIM: Moving the Industry Forward. Thursday: Information Exchanges. Thursday: Information Exchanges.
Building Information Management
DECEMBER 2, 2012
Efficient construction delivery methods (IPD – integrated project delivery, JOC – job order contracting), cloud computing, and BIM are all integral components. Symposium Title: Integrating BIM: Moving the Industry Forward. Thursday: Information Exchanges. Thursday: Information Exchanges.
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