Boost Your BIM provides a macro that sets a Plan View top and bottom extents to a 3D view section box… interesting stuff:
Using 3D Section Box to set Plan View’s View Range � Boost Your BIM – making Revit even better
A recent post from Eat Your CAD that has been getting some interest on Twitter … I think more than a bit of it is tongue-in-cheek:
EYC – Addressing the 5 most important BIM questions
Here are a few quotes that tickled me:
- Adopting BIM is a difficult and often unrewarding task.
- “Open BIM” is what people on the leading edge are aspiring to and solves all your problems.
- You’ll be expected to do extra work at a much earlier stage than you would have traditionally at a much lower fee.
- BIM is based on a 3D model and therefore requires everything to be modelled as an exact copy of the final manufactured building component.
- the quicker your architects can become qualified in structural engineering, the more benefit you’ll gain from BIM.
- Mention that your closest competitors have all migrated to Revit and within a short space of time you’ll be promoted and your bosses will be able to smile smugly over their 5-iron and confidently state “We do BIM. What do you think about them apples?”
- You cannot do BIM if you are a civil engineer, as civil engineers don’t build buildings.
- To be safe, always leave an empty space at least 300mm clear of another discipline’s object.
- Model as much detail as you can
- Add every property that you can to every object
Funny stuff 🙂
AutodeskEd’s Youtube channel has been very busy – I have collected 25 videos specifically relating to Structural users, including information on:
- Reinforcement
- Rebar
- Assemblies
- Parts
- Loads
- Interoperability
Link to playlist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p1NoxzJz1A&feature=share&list=PLdw8FwXDx_djMvsIrcdzRMyEZ4WSBV4Fj
Check out lot’s more at:
Autodesk Building Solutions channel — http://www.youtube.com/user/AutodeskBuilding?feature=watch
Question from Alaa El Kabbany:
I’m asking if anyone knows how to show the local file path on the revit file interface (like autocad)…..is there a way?
Answer:
Download the Revved tool package from here. After it is installed, on your Add-Ins bar you can click on ReVVed — Open Folder to access the “local file path” in explorer.
You can download ReVVed 2011 or ReVVed 2012 or ReVVed 2013 for free. (via PKH Lineworks)
Query via:
What Revit Wants: Revit 2013 Direct Download Links
Also, check out my recommended Revit add-ins on Pinterest.
UPDATE: These pages all seem to be dead now.
Because the old CS2 activation servers have been switched off, Adobe have provided links and serial numbers needed to install CS2 products at:
Adobe – CS2 Downloads
Includes products like full Acrobat, Indesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
This will also allow you to create an Instagram account even if you don’t have an Iphone or Android phone…
Download at:
Run Mobile Apps on Windows PC or Mac with BlueStacks | Android App Player
- COINS Auto Section Box (download)
- QuickViewAccess2013 (2013 download) (2012 download)
- ZoomToAwesome (download)
- Palladio X BIM – WindowsLayout (download)
- Ok, its not a view addin, but – set a keyboard shortcut to Isolate Element, and another one to Zoom Extents. When you want to find and zoom to a selected element, just type the two shortcuts one after the other … Isolate Element then Zoom Extents.
- File – Save As – Archive
- This will make ZIP with all the resources.
- If you want to view them all in one folder, use 7-Zip, Extract Files… with no pathnames (this will put all the files in one folder)
If you have exported a file from Revit to 3ds Max Design (perhaps using Suite Workflows), this is a good way to capture all the texture and material resources that are needed and put them in one easy-to-use location.
This may allow you to export more easily to other formats and use the associated bitmaps in those other formats (like OBJ or similar).
The two step process is:
- Export STL from Revit
- Use U3D-2-PDF to turn the STL into a 3D PDF (a one click process).
This is the fourth free method I have posted on how to make 3D PDFs from Revit (go to end of post for the other three). Pros for this method – quick and easy once you are set up. Cons – can’t really get materials or colours to show (just geometry).
You will need to setup your environment first. Here is what you need:
1) The STL Exporter (Revit 2013 version add-in here.)
2) Then, get U3D-2-PDF at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/u3d2pdf/?source=recommended
It requires MeshLab and MiKTeX (see here). You also need .NET Framework 4 (here if you don’t already have it).
You can get them from:
3) Meshlab software:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/meshlab/?source=recommended
and
4) MiKTeX download at:
http://miktex.org/download
(yes to automatic package installs)
Once you have installed all 4 items, then:
Extract and Run U3D-2-PDF.exe. You will need to specify some paths like:
“C:Program Files (x86)MiKTeX 2.9miktexbinpdflatex.exe”
“C:Program FilesVCGMeshLabmeshlabserver.exe”
Select a source STL or WRL, then an output PDF filename and click Start. Once finished, click Open PDF.
If you want additional steps, you can go Suite Workflows to Max, then from there out to STL or WRML.
NOTE: if you do go to Max first, then Topography WILL be included in the 3D PDF. If you don’t go out to Max, then it won’t (because the Revit STL Exporter will not pick up topography properly.)
I got some clues from an explanatory PDF via download at:
Generate U3D files from STL models for making multilayer 3D PDF figures
Once a U3D file has been created, there are two basic options to convert the U3D files into PDF format. One requires the commercial Adobe Acrobat Pro software (versions 7, 8, 9, or X all include the required functionality), while the other option uses the free open-source LaTeX software package (MiKTeK and the movie15 package) to compile the final PDF. Both these options use a .U3D file of the model in order to generate the 3D figure. However, U3D files are not very easy to create directly.
Instead, an IDTF file must be created, and that is in turn converted into a Universal 3D (.U3D) file. Fortunately, the IDTF to U3D converter is freely available (sourceforge.net u3d). Unfortunately, the free software comes as a fairly large download (U3D_A_061228_5.zip, 2007-01-16, 36.3 MB).
Previous methods:
- Using the i-model plugin
- Converting a DWF,
- Revit to OBJ to DAZ Studio to U3D to Adobe 3D PDF
- The method described above
Starting today, each new FormIt file you create (or old one you edit) will be converted to a RVT file – in addition to the SAT file you currently get. Of course, this all requires that you use your free Autodesk 360 account.
Each RVT file contains the following
- an in-place mass with a form element for each object that can be edited using the Revit/Vasari conceptual massing tools. That is, it has a clear extrusion between two profiles. All other objects (boolean cuts and joins and objects with edges modified in two or more axes) will come in as non-editable imports.
- The latitude and longitude of the location – if you set one in FormIt.
- Sorry, no images yet.
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