Here are the initial addin download links:
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Back in 2008, I thought it might be cool to start a Revit and BIM blog – but I had no idea how long my interest in the subject would endure, or how many readers would actually be interested in what I had to say. I have certainly learnt a lot over that time, and I hope I’ve been able to help a few of you as well. Here are 3 things that blogging has taught me:
- Writing forces you to distill and crystallize your thoughts, and often prompts you to challenge the very things you are suggesting your readers accept
- Its more important to be consistent rather than prolific (people get bombarded with way too much information as it is!)
- Attribution is key – if you always share your source, others will reciprocate
And one final thought: Share your unique knowledge and workflows. Once people know the basics of a thing, they are often only interested in the un-ordinary (like formatting their Autodesk USB drives).
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But I’m not giving up yet! Thanks for your continued interest and engagement.
Some recent milestones for What Revit Wants:
- over 3,000,000 pageviews
- over 1900 posts
- over 1200 followers on my Twitter feed
- over 450 likes to the Facebook page
And one final, sobering static:
- over 550 draft posts waiting to be finished (!)
This new keynoting addin from Kiwi Custom Solutions stores per-project Keynotes in a database to solve concurrent access problems. Revit 2015 allows some interesting pathing to happen for keynotes, that looks like this:
Using this addin, you can either create a new set of keynotes for each project (based on a template), or you can “link” projects to one common keynote definition (allowing an entire office to work collaboratively on one master keynote file).
Any changes are updated instantly in Revit.
Here’s some steps:
- Download trial here
- Install
- Start Revit 2015
- You may be prompted to activate
- Open or Start a Revit project
- The Easy Keynoter setup wizard will start…
- and you will be prompted to select a local or network location for the database SDF file…
- and give your Keynote template a name, like Default
- Then import an existing Keynote text file. You could start with the Natspec version. Or import your office standard.
- From here, you can start using and modifying your Keynotes in the Easy Keynoter dialog.
You can close the Easy Keynoter pane with the little X (like other palettes), and open it with the button on the Addins ribbon.
There is also a search option:
Summary of key features:
- no problems with multiple users editing the keynotes at the same time as with other systems
- keynote changes are reflected immediately in the Revit project
- Drag and Drop Keynotes from the Palette
- search function
Combining Revit Lookup and Sysexporter has a lot of potential for getting hard-to-reach data out of Revit in almost realtime. For example, in Revit 2013 there are limited options for scheduling Revit Links. But if we open Revit Lookup (Snoop Database), and then start Sysexporter, we can see this (find Snoop Objects in the list and select it):
From here, we can copy that list of Revit Links to Excel and do some LEFT and RIGHT operations to strip the Element ID:
Now, we can copy a group of element IDs to the Select by ID box in Revit (maybe need a trip to Notepad++ to remove linebreaks) to multi-select a group of Links, based on their Discipline or Level. Then, you can assign them to a particular Workset. See where I’m heading with this?
COBie Toolkit for Revit 2015 direct link http://t.co/wA2KHaDPee via @revitusersirl @AutodeskRevit
— Luke Johnson (@lukeyjohnson) June 8, 2014
As part of meeting his RTCNA requests, Harry posted this idea for saving all groups to file:
- API can be used to generate a text file listing all model groups.
- this text file can be used as input to a journal file that saves each group to its own file
Its good to keep this general principle in mind when working with and around Revit – if it doesn’t seem possible, try and think about it from a different direction. Usually there is another way to attack the problem you are facing. Don’t give up… just find the unobvious answer, make it work, and then share it with the rest of us!
View the demonstration video at:
#RTCNA Wish 6: Save all groups to file | Boost Your BIM
via https://twitter.com/BoostYourBIM/status/480096851555672065
I was speaking to a surveyor recently and he indicated that he believes in around 2 years time, point clouds will be a “commodity” that almost anyone can produce. Devices to scan 3D spaces are becoming more powerful and more accessible, and essentially anyone can use them. For example, have you seen Google’s Project Tango?
Along with Recap 360 and other iOS apps for scanning rooms and converting to 3D models, the question soon will not be “how do we scan this?” The question will be:
What do we do with all of this scanned, real world spatial data?
Learn more:
ATAP Project Tango – Google
These Dropbox links are copied from the Autodesk Community Russia site:
| Project Template | 2012 |
| 2013 | |
| 2014 & 2015 NEW!!! | |
| Doors | Семейства |
| Спецификации | |
| Window | Семейства |
| Спецификации | |
| Escalators 2013 | Семейства |
| Moving walkways 2013 | Семейства |
| Garbage chute 2013 | Семейства |
| Fence 2013 | Семейства |
| Lifts 2012 NEW!!! | Семейства и руководство пользователя |
From:
Forum page
via borissofff at
Source page (translated)
To use, basically:
- Download from link below
- Install
- Pick the retention time
- Click Clean all file types (you will be shown how much space was saved)
- or/ click Toggle Calc mode to clean individual file types
- You can also click Open Journal Folders to see all versions of Journal folders on your PC
(As you can see there is also an unrelated angle calc tool. I usually use this family.)
From Dante van Wettum, via email:
Also this year again i have updated the Revit journal cleaner again to support 2015. Also i added a few new features to the tool that might help others. Though i wrote the tool in first instance for personal use, i will share it again as the passed few years 🙂
EDIT fixed download link here:
http://gdurl.com/FPiy
Download via: http://www.aqua-page.nl/dls/dls/download.php?fname=./other/RevitJournalCleaner_2015.zip
Here the changelog:
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Revit Journal Cleaner
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Copyright (C) 2014 D. van Wettum.
2.0.4
– Added support for revit 2015
– Added commandline parameter “/CleanAll:<number_Of_Days>” Example:”C:…RevitJournalCleaner.exe /CleanAll:1″
– Added a small angle calculation tool that has completely nothing to do with cleaning journal files, though i found it to be a nice add-on for my own use 🙂
Kind Regards
Dante van Wettum
(The Netherlands)
From viewing the video, it looks like you just:
- Take some pictures with your drone and GoPro
- Upload to Recap 360 and make sure you get an RCS output
- Link it into Revit and do your conceptual modelling
- Visualize the model using the site context from the linked RCS point cloud
Easy!
Here’s the video:
Heads-up https://twitter.com/Alex_BIM_AJP/status/479897809634988033
