What Revit Wants
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Part 4: Fulfilling employer’s information exchange requirements using COBie – Code of practice
Fill in the form to get your free copy at:
http://shop.bsigroup.com/forms/BS-1192-4/
or use this link:
http://shop.bsigroup.com/upload/Construction_downloads/BS1192-4_Collaborative_production_of_information_Part_4.pdf
The View “Discipline” setting in Revit is a high level visibility control that can have some significant consequences on how a view actually looks. Amongst other things, it works as a high level switch for Hidden Lines.
As the online Help demonstrates:
In view properties for 2D views and 3D views, set the Show Hidden Lines parameter to By Discipline to display hidden lines based on the assigned discipline of the view.
For all views, the default value for Show Hidden Lines is By Discipline, with the following results:
The By Discipline value also ensures that the view displays hidden lines specified using the Show Hidden Lines by Element tool of the View tab.
Help: About Hidden Lines and View Discipline
Here is part of a recent discussion in the BIM + Revit MEP group on LinkedIn, where we see David is trying to hide Hidden Lines in a Section View in Revit MEP:
Some more pieces of the View Discipline puzzle:
Determines how discipline-specific elements display in the view. You can also use this parameter to organize views in the Project Browser.
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and
If you see an entire category of halftoned objects that are not set to display as halftoned (see About the Visibility and Graphic Display Dialog), try changing the view discipline. The Discipline setting determines how different object categories display in discipline-specific views. Also, select Coordination to show all object lines as solid without halftones. See View Properties.
Help: Common Issues with Visibility and Graphic Display
For more detail on View Discipline implications, check out:
REVIT Rocks !: REVIT View Discipline Explained – Kind of
Revit OpEd: View Discipline
(I found the above posts using my custom Revit Master Search engine)
You might also try
choco install CADConverter(to easily convert DWG to PDF and more)
or
choco install freecad
The latest version of CTC BIM Project Suite installs an Explorer extension that can list the following without even opening Revit:
All you need to do is install the trial, and the Explorer extension will become available when you right click an RVT or RFA. The trial includes free tools that do not expire (see image below):
Here is a direct download link
More info on “Revit Properties”
Revit Properties is now available within the CTC BIM Project Suite download, and runs outside of Revit. This user interface provides access to basic data about Revit project files, family files, project template files and family template files.
This is a free tool that does not have licensing requirements
Main page:
BIM Project Suite – CAD Technology Center
Paper by Robert Currer and Jason Pickup. View and download at:
BIM & Precast Concrete – A Strategic Guide to Adoption and Implementation | Jason Pickup – Academia.edu
via LinkedIn
Maybe this quote from Al Beckes in AUGI World (October 2014) will help:
From Help: Access IFC-Specific Files
It will send you here:
http://revit.autodesk.com/library/html/index.html
And you can download IFC.exe from this direct link
which contains these files:
It hasn’t shown up on Exchange yet, but it is already available for download on the Sourceforge page. There is an update to IFC 2015 (the one that is really robust, fast and accurate for Import and Export), and also some updates to 2014 IFC addins.
Direct link to the MSI installer for Revit 2015
Some of my testing:
30% file size reduction in RVT when using Link IFC on 85mb steel model from Tekla v16.1
v15.1.0 = 297mb
v15.2.0 = 210mb
66% file size increase in IFC when using export IFC to all proxies:
v15.1.0 = 288mb
v15.2.0 = 478mb
Some key Export improvements from the readme (I’ve underlined points of interest):
– The functionality for creating and using user-defined property sets has been greatly enhanced. This includes:
– Added a “DefaultUserDefinedParameterSets.txt” file to allow a user to create user-defined property sets for any setup, including the in-session setup.
– Added the “IFC2x3 Extended FM Handover View.txt” user-defined property sets file to the installation. This also fixes a typo in the original version.
– Allow the user to specify any file as a user-defined property set file, instead of being forced to use the default name and location.
– Increased the types of fields that can be used from the original 4. The full list is detailed in the DefaultUserDefinedParameterSets.txt file.
– The Setup dialog for the export alternate UI has been split into 3 tabbed pages to make it easier to find and understand the export options.
– Significantly improve performance when trying to export a highly-tessellated geometry.
New Import Functionality:
– Add an “IfcMaterial” field that contains the material name(s) associated with the element.
– Add an “IfcSpatialContainer” field that contains the name of the project, building, building story or space that contains the element.
– Create multiple layers for simple cases of elements where IfcMateralLayerSetUsage is defined.
– Import IfcGrids. There are some fundamental differences between IFC and Revit Grids, most notably that IFC grids are per-view, and Revit Grids are per-model. As such, there may be cases where some grid lines show up in more views than initially designated in the IFC file.
– Improve healing and logging of imported solid data that is slightly dirty. This should result in fewer missing objects.
Import Bug Fixes:
– Fix “missing” faces when elements were cut by openings and the IfcOpeningElement sub-category had its visibility turned off.
– Handle unbound circles used for profile definitions in certain cases.
Heads-up https://twitter.com/digiacomoemma/status/517072219739291648
I’m not saying that AceCad BIMReview is a great program, but its another free tool to keep in mind.
There is also a good list going at http://bimblog.bondbryan.com/interoperability/, which includes:
BIM Surfer (open source WebGL viewer)
Constructivity Model Viewer (PC only)
DDS-CAD Open BIM Viewer (PC only)
FZKViewer (PC only)
Solibri Model Viewer (PC and Mac)
Tekla BIMsight (PC, Windows tablets, iPad and iPhone)
xBIM Xplorer (PC only)
Anyhow, to try BIMReview Lite, download the installer at:
BIMReview – BIM Project Collaboration
Install ‘core’ only.
Switch to the free version by direct text editing this file.
“C:Program FilesAceCad Software LtdBIMReview 7.2BIMReview.exe.config”
Like this:
Or in Options:
I noticed some cutting errors when opening IFC from Tekla (the beam ends should cut back):
Supported filetypes:
The open house is getting more ‘open’ every day. Go here to join the project:
Enter Revit Skyscraper Open House Project
After joining and logging in, access the downloads section, download the ZIP file and run the EXE. You should be greeted with something like this as the Citrix hosted solution starts up:
Once you have joined and have access to Revit Skyscraper, please feel free to comment below and I can add you to a Sandbox Project I have set up, and also add you as a contact for chat. Have fun!
I recommend you join the project and read some of the early forum posts, particularly if you pondering issues of IP, who owns the model, permissions and the like.
