What Revit Wants
Did you know you can use a Revit Room schedule to quickly tell if a Room is Not Placed or Unenclosed. Here’s the clues:
Unenclosed will still show Highlight in Model in ribbon:
Not Placed will not show Highlight in Model:
I recently had the pleasure of presenting at the 1st Build SA event of the year. Overall, it was a very informative event that packed heaps of useful content into a half-day of presentations, labs and discussions of real world case studies.
You can get tickets for BuildSA Event 02 – Documentation and Deliverables Part 1 here at this link.
And… here are the downloads from my session on IFC interoperability and conversions:
Slideshow
Speaker Handout
Hands on resources for Lab
(The one missing piece that you don’t get access to is the larger resource download package. If you want to get hold of some of these extra goodies, may I suggest that you attend Build SA Session 2 as per link above? )
Embedded slides:
Embedded handout:
Did you know you can override the lineweights and colors of a Generic Annotation or Tag and its Leaders in Revit? You can use Visibility / Graphics annotation tab like this:
But what if you have two Tags that are of the same category, say Detail Item Tags, but you want to override them differently? You can’t use a normal model-based filter, as these generally do not act on annotations. However, you can use a selection-based filter…
Just:
Now, keep in mind that you need to manually update this selection-based filter. You might make it part of your printing workflow to do steps 1 and 2 above immediately prior to printing, thus updating the saved selection set to be in line with the current status of your model.
Cool! My Lumia 930 and Surface Pro 3 will be all happy now 🙂
The 123D family recently expanded to include 123D Catch and 123D Sculpt+ for the Windows Store. 123D Catch is also now available for Windows Phone through the Windows Phone Store.
This breaks new ground on the Windows mobile platforms for 123D and broadens the availability of these powerful, free apps for anyone with a Windows device.
For those new to the apps, 123D Catch uses the camera on your phone or tablet to shoot photographs around something, then upload the photos to the cloud where they are turned into a realistic 3D model.
123D Sculpt+ is a digital sculpting application for tablets, allowing beginners to get into digital 3D sculpting and professionals to do their work on the go.
Read more / via:
123D Captures Windows Phones and Tablets – 123D Blog
2015 may be remembered as ‘the year the BIM podcast became a reality’ (among other things, I’m sure 🙂
Here is a list of recently established but active podcasts related to BIM and the Built Environment. I have provided RSS links, and will update this list as more become available:
BIMThoughts – BIMThoughts is podcast about BIM technology and techniques.
RSS: http://bimthoughts.com/feed/podcast/
Podcast | Designalyze
RSS: http://www.designalyze.com/taxonomy/term/120/all/feed
Autodesk Launches Podcast Channel to Explore the Future of the Built Environment
RSS: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:149177069/sounds.rss
Episode with Adam Sheather: link
The Architech Show
RSS: http://www.thearchitechshow.com/feed/
Konrad Sobon has released a very cool and powerful new node package for Dynamo called Bumblebee. I did some very basic beta testing on some of his code a while back, and it looked promising then. It has some more polish now and it will certainly help us get the Revit to Excel connection “buzzzzzing” nicely through Dynamo 🙂
It supports some nice things like writing to multiple sheets at once, offset to specific Cell entries, and writing to multiple locations in the same sheet. Most of this is accomplished through the BB Data node:
There is even some handy documentation already in place:
For specific instructions on how to use each one of the components and what is possible to achieve with each one of them you can refer to Bumblebee Primer: BB Primer
Read more at Konrad’s post:
bumblebee – dynamo and excel interop | archi-lab
