Revit OpEd

APRIL 19, 2012

System families have a Function setting. Thats true for Walls, Floor, Roofs and Ceilings. I run into wall types quite often that have these wrong or inconsistently applied. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc. Site Information. Copyright Information. Thursday, April 19, 2012.

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Building Information Modeling (BIM) Wall Systems Flooring Systems Ceiling Systems 53

Revit OpEd

JULY 20, 2012

Improves stability when selecting a new host for an element within an In-place Wall. Improves section creation within a project with linked model. Improves stability when enabling “Show Analytical Model Categories in this View” when the Warning dialog is open. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc.

Piping Installation 61

Piping Installation Building Information Modeling (BIM) Project Management Consulting Structural Systems 61

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. We can also create rooms and areas in a schedule view before there are any walls or boundaries available to define where they should go.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) 56

Building Information Modeling (BIM) Schedule Management Project Management Consulting Site Planning 56

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.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) 58

Building Information Modeling (BIM) Change Management Schedule Management Building Materials Manufacturing 58

Revit OpEd

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

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. When MEP (Systems as it was called then) appeared a year later they extended the concept to Mechanical and Electrical (plumbing lumped in with Mechanical till release 2013). Builds and Updates.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) 55

Building Information Modeling (BIM) Site Planning Project Management Consulting HVAC Systems 55

Revit OpEd

JULY 19, 2012

Reference Planes and Wall Closure. Control Wall’s Material Return. Layers) for the host wall in a project. These adjustments change the 3D model, not just the 2D plan-view. You can set two Reference Planes to “Wall Closure” in a family. Builds and Updates. Blog Listing - BIM and Misc.

Wall Systems 72

Wall Systems Building Information Modeling (BIM) Project Management Consulting Site Planning 72

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. However the Room Separations still existed. We just couldn’t see them.

Building Information Modeling (BIM) 76

Building Information Modeling (BIM) Zoning HVAC Systems Wall Systems 76