If you ever want to know when each Revit version came out, check out this page by David Conant:
Revit Timeline (W.I.P.)
So how many of you have used Revit 0.1 (November 1999)?
Month: March 2013
Aaron Maller has been travelling a lot lately, but he still found the time to upload some of the recent presentations that he has delivered:
Flicking through the Glasgow RUG PDF, you will find cool stuff like:
I also like these words from his post:
Its really not enough to be doing the best that i can in one country.
We need a vehicle, for reaching a Global platform.
i dont post these thinking they are anything more than what they are: One small groups workflow that happens to get us through some specific needs.
Read more / via:
Malleristic Revitation: Malleristic BIM travels
I think Civil3D is a very powerful and useful tool. I have even found some ways to make it work nicely with Revit, by using it to do graphical slope analysis, or using it to increase Topography resolution.
If you too are interested in using Civil3D in the BIM process, you should check out the recent article by Andrew Walther on AUGI:
Quote:
As can be seen, the concepts of BIM, which were initially founded in the building industry, can readily be applied to infrastructure and land development projects. The key lies in understanding the processes and applying those concepts to the individual components of the process. Whether it’s BIM or Model-Based Design, the concepts are the same and the technology allows designers to share and leverage data in certain areas. With Civil 3D the true BIM components lie in: 1) moving data through the various phases of the infrastructure project procurement process; and 2) sharing data during individual project phases.
Read more:
BIM and Civil 3D – Fact or Fiction? | AUGI
You can use the Wall Opening tool to allow Revit Room elements to flow between spaces. Other methods are not very reliable or just will not work. So, don’t forget about this little button on the Ribbon:
Tip via:
Non Room Bounding Wall Opening – Autodesk Discussion Groups
Ok, this is a bit counter-intuitive but:
If you want to export parameters from Revit to an IFC file, note that the parameters should not be grouped under the category “IFC parameter”, but under a different (eg, .. ID data, text) category.
This is because the IFC parameter group is for inbuilt / standard IFC parameters.
via
Autodesk BIM Blog – Tipp f�r IFC-Parameter Export f�r Revit Produkte
In case you missed this recent article, note how the comments of Philip Rosedale can actually apply to the future of the AEC industry:
“If the technology changes to make it easier for negotiating and knowing what the work product is, and knowing how people are performing, and it becomes easier to do things in smaller and smaller chunks and with more granularity and with less hassle, the nature of firms and the structure of firms will probably change,” he said. “Obviously, they will go down in size and the relationships will become much more transactional. So,” Rosedale said, “my belief became that the future of work will be some sort of a situation in which many more people will contribute to projects in much smaller chunks,” he said.
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“I was struck by the thought that we’re reaching a point where the scale and complexity of the things we’re building exceeds our capability as individuals to do planning around them,” he said.
Revit 2013 is not officially supported on Windows 8 – though maybe you have been able to get it to install and run correctly? Have you tried updating Revit to the latest version? Did you have to disable Hardware Acceleration? Share your experience in the comments…
One support blog tells us of a “customer who reported that he was trying to install Revit Structure 2013 on his new computer with Windows 8 operating system and it would not open. The customer then installed update 2 and their Revit Structure opened.”
via
Revit 2013: Cannot install Revit 2013 on Windows 8 – IMAGINiT Technologies Support Blog
Martí Broquetas list of BIM standards has been updated:
He “turned the list into a table that can be sorted clicking on the headers. THis way it is easy to sort the standards by country,or date or name, etc. “
via
CAD addict: List of Existing BIM Standards
Also, syou may or may not be aware that before OpenRevitStandards got shut down, I copied the List of Revit content page. You can find it here:
https://wrw.is/p/this-is-temporary-content-table-link.html
From the About page:
We don’t want to re-invent the wheel. We’re fully aware that many groups / professional bodies / organisations are already out there doing their bit to assist the general direction and goals of the industry. We differ from these groups in that we wish to present an holistic and unified representation of the AEC industry without attachment to any particular discipline or professional body by using practicing industry professionals to produce meaningful, unbiased recommendations. We will provide advice to those producing documents and guidelines for BIM / IPD as well as clients that wish to know more about BIM; both what it can do for them and what they can realistically expect from the industry.
To find out more, check out http://collaborate-anz.com, and request to join by filling out the form at:
collaborate (ANZ)
Boost Your BIM has been posting some awesome stuff. One older post shows you how to quickly purge your Revit model of Imports:
a FilteredElementCollector, a bit of LINQ, a transaction, and Document.Delete to get the imports (but not the links) out of the model.
Check out the code at:
Delete Imported DWGs and Other CAD files � Boost Your BIM – making Revit even better
If you want to learn how to set-up and use macros in Revit, check out:
Setting up your Revit project for inputting macro codes – Benjamin Malone
His detailed post covers:
- Revit Macro Manager
- Module creation and choosing a language
- SharpDevelop
- Building and running the macro
