What Revit Wants
Let’s say you have 50 sheets with one viewport on each, and you want to nudge all those viewports around the sheet a little bit. Difficult?
Check out this page for more on Facility Management and BIM from AUGI:
BIM and FM | AUGI
Links copied below:
BIM Kickoff Meeting FAQ
This document was posted by Robert Bell to the Revit MEP forum, as a good checklist for discussion between contractors.
Revit Maximo Integration Plugin
This application has been retired/graduated from the Autodesk Labs site, but, please check out the documentation for the intended functionality and contact Autodesk to display your interest in this capability.
Revit Archibus Overlay
Archibus Overlay has long worked with AutoCAD, and you can purchase it for Revit, too, allowing for reporting and querying across multiple models.
Linking Data Spreadsheet to Navisworks for Facility Management
This is more of a debate with mulitiple options than an iron-clad framework, but, the idea is worth reviewing.
The GSA on BIM for FM
The General Services Administration has been a forerunner in utilitzing BIM post-construction and thoroughly documenting their standards. Check out the links on the left of the page to access press releases, videos and the BIM Library.
AECbytes: BIM for Facilities Management
AECbytes does a roundup of FM products that can make use of BIM (this is an older article, if there’s a newer version, please let me know and I will update the link). A good read by Lachmi Khemlani, as usual.
BIM for FM on a University Campus
Case study on the business case for building information modeling at Northumbria University’s city campus, presented at ECObuild 2013.
How to Approach BIM for Renovations
A link to a detailed methodology and a real world report of how one hospital stepped through the process.
What does an Owner Want with BIM?
This article says that most companies are doing a disservice with this question, when they should really be asking ‘Who is the Owner?’ A rundown of the stakeholders using the data and Revit models turned over to the facilities and engineering staff post-occupancy.
Moving from AutoCAD to BIM for Building Floor Plans
The Wexner Medical Center at The Ohio State University’s BIM Implementation Project.
Setup with Clients and Owners
Discussion on how to work with clients on delivery and standards formation.
Circular Linking of Models and Campus Buildings
Discussion on some issues with working across a large multi-building campus.
Coordinating Projects Using Shared Coordinates
Class handout and video link to an in-depth Revit class by Steve Stafford.
Revit Standards: Getting Started Guides
BIM Standards and Guidelines
If you have done a clean install of Autodesk products, you may find that the older versions of Application Manager are a bit slow to get going. Just install version 5 straight up to get things updating nicely.
Direct link: http://download.autodesk.com/SWDLDDLM/Updates/AppManager/5_0_142_0/AdApplicationManager-installer.exe
Press release: link here
Main page:
http://academy.autodesk.com/
Advanced Dynamo: http://academy.autodesk.com/curriculum/bim-advanced-computational-design
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This Labs project was distributed a while back, but it timed out and the addin won’t usually run anymore. Its purpose was basically to import a .RIF file from cadMEP back into Revit with some intelligent mapping.
I had someone ask me how to get this working now that the Labs period is up, and I made the suggestion to set the computer time back to before the addin expired… And it works 🙂 So if you really want to play with the FAB to RME Labs addin from about 2 years ago, this might be an option for you.
Paweł Romaniuk has shared his workflow to take various parameters from a model, run the necessary algorithms and then write the area back to a parameter for use in a Revit schedule. Link to pdf download is below… Thanks Paweł.
UPDATED Download link:
Dynamo_Duct_Fittings_Calculation_V.0.1
Download:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r1slk1sbo1eo971/Dynamo_Duct_Fittings_Calculation_V.0.1.pdf?dl=0
There is no immediately easy way to override the colour of an entire Revit Link. Of course, you can set up a View Template and override all of the individual subcategories, but that can get time consuming when working with many links…
Worksharing Display Mode gives us a quick way of visualising Worksets. What if we put each Revit Link on its own Workset? Then if we set Worksharing Display Mode to Worksets, these Links are overridden with the Workset colours selected in the dialog:
Unfortunately, the Worksharing Display Mode setting is a temporary override (notice the border around the view?), and it will be switched off when we close and open the file. However, the colour choices will be retained. Is there a way we can quickly ‘turn on’ the Worksharing Display Mode for all views in the document? Perhaps this could be done just prior to printing, or at the start of an editing session?
Enter… you guessed it… Dynamo.
I made a node to Enumerate Worksharing Display Modes available, and another one to Set Worksharing Display Mode for View. Finally, I adapted the archi-lab Get All Views node into a List All Views node. Now, we can set them in one click:
And a Screencast:
Each time you print, you will be prompted to “Leave the mode on and print…“, but the colour override will print fine 🙂
Update:
Colours will transfer using Transfer Project Standards, as per:
Transfer Project Standards
If you populate a project with the desired worksets, usernames, and colors you can automatically transfer most of this data over to another project. Under Manage > Transfer Project Standards, there is a new option for Worksharing Display Settings.
Keep in mind this will not transfer over workset names from one project to another.
It will however transfer over workset colors, should the same name workset appear in both projects.
Each category has a Show Color column with a checkbox; these are project specific and do not transfer.
Revit 2012 Worksharing Display Modes and Transfer Project Standards – The Revit Clinic
It is pretty difficult to change the Workset of Pipe Insulation. The Properties Palette allows you to change them one at a time (but not multiple), while the method I posted about previously can change multiple Pipe Insulations to a different Workset, but it didn’t have a nice filtering mechanism.
Enter Dynamo… I made a custom node that takes a list of Pipe Insulations and gives you the Host Pipe element:
Then, I packaged this up in another node that collects all Pipe Insulations, checks their Workset, finds their Host Pipe, and then saves those Pipes to a SelectionSet:
So, if you have Pipe Insulations on the wrong workset:
1. Install Bakery package in Dynamo
2. Run definition as in image above
3. Close Dynamo
4. Load the Saved Selection
5. Group these Pipes (which groups the Insulations too)
6. Change workset (it will have already adopted the current workset)
7. Ungroup
8. Done
Thanks to Konrad and Andreas for archi-lab and Clockwork packages respectively. I get a few comments about my Bakery package having a lot of dependencies, but I like the fact that I just need to install Bakery and I get archi-lab, Clockwork, Lunchbox etc. Its like a rough and ready deployment solution…
Oh, one more thing. You may notice in recent versions (like 0.8.2 RC) that there is now some custom path management for Dynamo resources:
Good stuff!
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Thanks to @michaelclothier for the heads-up on this one…
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This uses the Media Creation Tool. I was running Tech Preview build 10041 on one of my devices and it wasn’t automatically getting the Windows 10 RTM upgrade, so I used this method instead of waiting for Windows Update…
1) Go to: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
2) Select appropriate version to download:
3) Run the downloaded tool:
4) Choose “Upgrade this PC now“:
Wait for download and install to finish:
