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Upgrading Files to 2016

2015-12-07T01:13:00.000-08:00

Upgrading Content to Revit 2016

If you are one of the many caught out by Autodesk not supplying an upgrade tool with Revit 2016
go ahead and let them know.
In the interim, you can buy some of the tools on the Autodesk Appstore
https://apps.autodesk.com/en
They range from 10-100$ not too bad but still annoying for something we got free for years.
Amazingly I stumbled over a free solution from my old colleague Jason Howden, that beats all the others by functionality and price.
Actually free, if you use the RTVXporter already
Cheap as chips if not as you can buy it for 9.99$

What's so great? It can upgrade all file types including Family Templates.
So if you have a set of company standard, Family templates this was in the past a mind-numbing task. Not anymore
Upgrading you Projects you got a set of useful extra options.
Give it a go

Australia to get BIM Library

2014-05-08T17:47:00.001-07:00

Great News
Its been about time
I am delighted by the fact that Natspec is involved and a consulting approach is taken instead of reinventing the wheel.
Lets hope the best brains in the Industry get picked.
And we really starting to collaborate

Information to populate the hub is being collected by NATSPEC, a not-for-profit organisation which runs the national specification system for building and construction.

http://sourceable.net/australia-set-for-bim-library/

New Revit Families from ACO BIM Library

2014-05-01T06:40:00.001-07:00

Drainage products supplier ACO Technologies now has building information modelling (BIM) files available for its civil engineering and infrastructure range.

acobuildingdrainage.co.uk/news-and-opinion/brushing-up-on-bim.aspx
Get directly to it via
My Family Links

My take on Revit 2015

2014-03-30T01:49:00.000-07:00

The cat is out of the Hat

A lot of Revit users will bag the Revit 2015 release for its apparent short list of new features.

I would like to make some comments on the bigger picture…for the folks who think this improvements are very very few.
Yes Revit 2015 looks mainly like a cleanup and prepare for future type of release.
Not many NEW or changed features but…
Foundation stones are laid for a much better collaboration system
IT will soon be much happier with introduction of better subscription management.
Behind the scenes system changes for better things to come in 2016.
This may not be the upgrade we and you where longing for but, there have been substantial system-changes for future implementation and therefore

my initial impression Upgrading Projects will take longer but performance on BIG projects are again improved.

My thumps-up would go

the ability to adjust Family Parameter order so parameters can make much more sense and be grouped
Interior will love the ability to use images in schedule fields even though is implementation is maybe only 30% of what it should or hopefully will be
IFC Linking and extra schedule parameters for the Model managers
Again 30% of what it should or hopefully will be

So where does this leave us...Is Revit development death ?

Well i don't think so some improvements are just not sexy
I did not see any glowing reviews on the Citrix implementation of Revit
although it opens the door for dramatic changes in parallel with nvidia GRID.

Citrix XenDesktop with NVIDIA GRID™ vGPU™
HP and Citrix
Amazon Adds Nvidia Grid GPU Instance To EC2 Cloud

Changes like this are big picture changes and rarely get the applause they deserve.
I hang out in lots of Forums i have not seen anyone asking for it...this was foresight.
Or to say it in Henry Fords words.
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

Sean Burke summed it up in a way i would broadly agree with.

Give it a read is-Revit-dead

An please be kind with the your "autodesk altar boy" flames

Collaboration and Work-sharing with MEP and Structure Consultants

2014-03-14T23:36:00.001-07:00

First my appologies for not posting for ever...
There has been just toooooo much going on...
But ...i have been presenting a lot...
So here is a presentation from last weeks WARUG meeting

Collaboration and Work-sharing with MEP and Structure Consultants

Final BIMforum LOD Specifications released

2013-08-24T08:09:00.000-07:00

2013 LOD Specification

http://bimforum.org/lod/

A great addition to your BIM Execution Plan
The best LOD reference I know

Expanding the BIM frontier

2013-08-24T08:01:00.000-07:00

Autodesk seems to have an increased focus to expand BIM into Infrastructure andConstruction.

Seems like exiting times ahead.

Autodesk Introduces Breakthrough Technology for Infrastructure

Autodesk Expands Infrastructure Design and Analysis Portfolio With Acquisition of Sam and AutoTrack Software

Point Layout Software

Will be interesting to see how this will perform in real life.

It promises to be a workable solution for set out of geometry and verification of as build models.

Autodesk Unveils New Autodesk Point Layout Software to Boost Accuracy and Productivity at Construction Sites

Autodesk® Point Layout

Monsters of BIM

2013-06-10T17:36:00.000-07:00

As you may have noticed I am part of the Band who organises the Bim Day Out

What started as an innocent idea” wouldn’t it be nice” to have a small BIM event right here in Perth.

The overwhelming response to our innocent idea has taken us all by surprise.

This has become a little BIM Monster that kept on growing.

for a moment we contemplated to change our Event to the “Monsters of BIM”

Anyhow we have now an huge selection of who is who in the BIM Zone and you would hate to miss out.

So if you are a Student, Architect, Builder, Consultant, QS, Specification writer, or sell flowers to construction workers

You know where you should be on the 18^th and 19^th of July
Sign UP

Rock on Perth

2013-04-16T23:53:00.001-07:00

www.bimdayout.com

Is now live

The BIM Day Out celebrates collaboration and difference. Have a great time, socialise, explore, collaborate and learn… move outside comfort zone and experience new things… embrace change Excuse for a party?!… well, yeah maybe.

RPC's not working in Revit Architecture 2014?

2013-03-30T06:53:00.001-07:00

unless you pay….. does not sound like good news…..

http://forums.autodesk.com

In 2014 or later you will need to have a new ArchVision Software License for Revit. The ArchVision Software License will give you access to every RPC ever made. The cost for the node-lock version is $249/year.

Autodesk Updated Terms of Services for the Cloud

2013-03-25T17:45:00.000-07:00

There have been lengthy discussions in cyberspace about ownership, safety and many more concerns about the Autodesk Cloud services.

Autodesk seems to have listened and updated their therms of service so mere mortals can understand it.

Somebody seems to get it……don’t let the lawyers go wild.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=17752585

The BIM Day out

2013-03-25T05:37:00.001-07:00

Its coming closer
soon to be revealed
be the first to hear
Sign up to The BIM Day Out

WorksetExplorer Revit Add In

2013-03-20T07:12:00.001-07:00

You may remember i wrote about An Epic Thread on Revit Worksets and Worksharing

now Dima the originator of the thread came back and created this great little tool on his Blog.

Thanks a lot Dima this makes cleaning up and checking so much easier.

WorksetExplorer Whats ON Your Workset

Worksetexplorer-Download

New Revit Plugins from Spain

2013-03-16T08:04:00.001-07:00

The Revit Room

In TheRevitRoom.com find information about applications, features, video demonstrations, tutorials, reviews of other users and demo versions 100% operating freely for you to evaluate their usefulness.

Our applications, both in the interface, such as tutorials and user manuals are available in English and Spanish in response to an unstoppable, global and growing community of users of Revit.

Right now we already have three applications that we consider useful and hopefully help you in your daily work with Autodesk Revit:

TRR Dimensions is a free application that lets you create dimensions simply designating a point in a plane. You can select which categories you want to limit (walls, columns, floors, etc..), in which position the dimension axes and if you want to dim all items, or only the separation between them, etc.

TRR Windows , is a commercially licensed application that lets you create a wide range of families of windows using very little the Family Editor. Simply describing the rows and columns of the window, the size of hinged parts, frame, sill and blind, and each hinged part type (fixed, swing, etc.,) you have in just over a minute, a windows family ready to be inserted into your projects.

TRR Carpentry is another commercially licensed application that lets you map with the doors and windows of the project with one click, because Revit does not provide such functionality. This is a simple application with which you will save a lot of time in the documentation phase of your projects.

Therevitroom.com

IFC4 has been finalized, and it is officially released

2013-03-15T08:34:00.001-07:00

After over 6 years of development and over 1100 issues being resolved, on 12. March 2013 buildingSMART international has finally released the new generation of IFC schemas - IFC4. It will now be the basis of future work of establishing new open BIM enabled work flows by defining new IFC4 based model view definitions. The official IFC4 release includes both the IFC4 EXPRESS schema to support current STEP-based IFC exchanges, and the ifcXML4 XSD schema to support new simple ifcXML transactions.
buildingsmart/news/

BIMdates - for the mad BIMer

2013-03-12T06:36:00.001-07:00

Jason Howden put this funky BIMers Beer-drinking Guide for Australasia together....... very usefull in this dry country.

Cheers Jason

BIMdates

An Epic Thread on Revit Worksets and Worksharing

2013-03-09T00:52:00.001-08:00

63 comments on this Linked in thread may be to much to digest on a weekend but worth a look .

Some thoughts on Revit Worksets and Worksharing

The different thoughts of respected and experienced users on this subject may be an eye-opener for some.

If not only for this read the comment by Kyle Bernhard, he is the Product Line Manager, Building Design Suite for Autodesk. A good Insight form the Factories and the past of this feature .

here his reply.

1. The Role of Worksets in Modern Revit

In order to understand how Worksets fit into Revit today, you need to understand how they got there in the first place.
Worksets were our our first foray into the realm of true Worksharing in Revit (one model, multiple users). Initially, you had to make a whole Workset editable to make any changes, effectively locking out the rest of the team from making any changes to those elements. The Visibility control functionality for Worksets was implemented as means to help identify what Elements were on what Workset.
Recognizing that Worksets alone were not flexible enough to facilitate productive collaboration in many cases, we implemented Element Borrowing. This enabled the transparent borrowing of elements when a user operation required them to be editable, without the need to explicitly "check out" of the entire Workset that contained them.
So Element Borrowing is really the implementation of Worksharing in modern Revit. Worksets were never deprecated, since many existing users at the time still used them for their original purpose. Even today, we see the pre-Element Borrowing understanding of Worksets discussed and implemented in the market. Ultimately, that's our fault for not communicating as effectively as possible with the Revit community.
With their original use usurped by Element Borrowing, Worksets today are mainly a means to apply an additional Classification of Elements in the model. There are certainly lower-frequency use cases where they are still used as originally designed, but that is the exception rather than the rule.
So, it's not the least bit surprising to see all sorts of different uses for them out in the market, given Revit's horizontal nature these days, and the needs to classify thing on a model.

2. Worksets, Visibility, and Memory

Turning off the visibility of a Workset in a View does not unload it from memory. It's the same thing as toggling a Category in a View -> Those hidden Elements, and their 3D faces visible in the current View Extents, aren't parsed by the graphics system, resulting in View loading and manipulation improvements.

3. Worksets and Memory

Revit loads all elements in a model into memory at load, at least in a serialized form, regardless of whether their Workset is loaded. We do this because we need to know their relationships to other Elements during Model Regeneration, in case they need to be updated as a result of a change in other model Elements. If such a circumstance occurs, they get fully "parsed" into memory and modified as the change propagates. The only way to completely unload Elements, as astutely pointed out earlier in the thread, is to place them in a linked model and unload that model.
Unloading a Workset effectively ensures that the Elements it contains are never fully loaded into Memory, unless Model Regeneration requires them to do so. It's kind of like a master switch next to the toggles we have for visibility in each individual View in the model.

4. The Future of Worksets

I really can't publicly go into any significant detail on where we are headed with Worksets - or Worksharing, visibility control, scheduling control, and the many other uses they have today - but I can say that we consider this a critical piece of Revit functionality, and one that's not fundamentally flawed in a significant way. Yes, as many have articulated, there are areas for improvement, and those improvements are part of the many areas we consider as we chart the future path of the product.

Revit Templates at Autodesk Building Owners

2013-02-26T16:50:00.000-08:00

This Place is worth a look when looking for Building Owner based templates and COBie Information Autodesk Building Owners

VEO is here

2013-02-07T07:48:00.001-08:00

Finally we can check it out

Learn Try Buy

http://www.m-six.com/index

and see you here

http://www.m-six.com/forum

VEO is coming ... public launch is imminent

2013-02-04T03:47:00.001-08:00

The current release date is February 6, 2013..

http://veonews.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/veo-is-coming-public-launch-is-imminent.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+VeoNews+%28VEO+News%29

“Free COBie in the Cloud” module: COBie Basic

2013-02-02T23:29:00.001-08:00

EcoDomus, is releasing a free version of its EcoDomus PM online software application called EcoDomus COBie Basic, which will help design and construction teams simplify the COBie deliverable process.
The EcoDomus COBie Basic software functionality enables:
• Data export from Autodesk Revit to a secure online database
• Online data entry and editing for all COBie entities (“worksheets”)
• Uploading and attaching documents to BIM objects
• Import and export of COBie Excel files
EcoDomus releases “Free COBie in the Cloud” module: COBie Basic
COBie Basic - EcoDomus /

WARUG NEWS

2012-12-08T22:08:00.000-08:00

Its been a busy year for all of us here in Perth .The Western Australian Revit User group has moved to Tafe and grown stronger. But you have nothing seen yet.
2013 should see us become more active,professional and useful than ever and …
WE NEED YOU
So please feel free to complete the attached membership application forms we have an exciting line up of topics and presenters for next year commencing February 6th 2013.
2013 WARUG Membership Form pdf Link
To stay always up to Date…..subscribe to the Mail list and also see below Links
Subscribe to WA Revit User Group E Mail

End of Year drinks 2012

Join us, the Western Australian Revit User Group, at our end of year drinks!
Date: Wednesday 19 December 2012
Time: 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Location: Moon and Sixpence
300 Murray Street, Perth
West Australian Revit User Group Website
WA-Revit-User-Group- LinkedIn have any suggestions and topics this is the place
WA Revit User Group Twitter
Meeting are at most of the time
Central Institute of Technology (Perth Campus)
30 Aberdeen Street, Perth
Level 3, Lecture Theatre 54

Autodesk and M-SIX have partnered! Revit and VEO

2012-11-22T06:38:00.000-08:00

Something to get excited about

Veo will get online; and Autodesk is buying in: Wonder if Phil had to go to Canossa.

After six years of Research and Development, M-SIX's VEO™ Platform will launch January 31, 2013.

M-SIX recently closed a Series A investment round led by Autodesk®, a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software. This investment has provided M-SIX with the resources needed to scale up our team and operations prior to launch.

M-SIX Announces Partnerships and VEO™ Launch Date

http://www.m-six.com/Announcements.html

http://revitworx.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/newforma-licenses-m-six-veotm-platform.html

Hilti BIM/CAD Library Objects now available in Revit Format

2012-11-12T07:32:00.000-08:00

Maybe not what you need every day but check it out
Hilti now provides a possibility of directly inserting Hilti BIM objects into Revit software. All the objects in the Hilti BIM/CAD library are now available in Revit compatible format and this makes the import of BIM objects in to Revit software efficient and easy.

Hilti BIM

http://hilti.cadclick.com/

BIM research will benefit energy and mining industries

2012-11-12T07:07:00.001-08:00

A new international research centre aimed at improving the productivity of energy, minerals, infrastructure and construction projects was recently launched at Curtin University.

Woodside Energy supported Curtin in hosting the delegation by organising a field trip to the remote Pluto LNG plant 1,800 km north of Perth for the visiting delegation, Curtin representatives, and the general consul of China in Perth.

Pace-research-will-benefit-energy-and-mining