Trimble develops point creator plug-ins for Revit and other BIM software

Luke Johnson

A while ago I posted about Trimble (Trimble Acquires Tekla)

Now, Trimble is developing plug-ins for various CAD softwares (including AutoCAD and Revit), which essentially will allow users to add ‘points’ to their models for easy export to the Trimble field surveying hardware.


SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) today announced updates to its Trimble® Point Creator software platform by introducing plug-ins for CAD and Autodesk® Revit® users. Existing users of Autodesk Revit 2012 (Architecture, MEP, and Structures versions) and popular CAD platforms, such as AutoCAD®, AutoCAD® MEP®, Bricscad, and ZWcad can operate natively within the Trimble Point Creator application to create 2D and 3D points. The points are then easily transferred to the Trimble LM80, Trimble MEP, and Trimble Field Link solutions for construction layout in the field.

If you want to be notified when these plug-ins are released, go to:
http://partners.bimtofield.com/get-TPC

Read the rest of the press release at designreform:
Trimble Point Creator Pro Software: Simple, native CAD point creation software – news

List of BIM Resources

Luke Johnson

Check out the big list of BIM Resources at the following BIMtoField Page:

  • BIM Project Execution Planning Guide, Penn State – If you have time to read only one resource, this is the one. The Penn State team just released version 2.0 of the BIM Execution Plan in June 2010. This guide includes a complete outline of BIM implementation.
  • National institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) – Focused on gathering a number of organizations from government, professional, industry, labor and consumer interests. There are two projects that are of particular interest to the BIM community.
    • BuildingSMARTalliance – A council of the National Institute of Building Sciences and a driving force behind industry leading projects on a number of fronts.

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Read more – BIMtoField.com

Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012 Update 2

Luke Johnson

The Revit blogosphere is alive with posts about Update 2 for Revit Architecture 2012.

Before You Download

Please read before downloading and installing:
Service Pack Readme (htm – 86Kb)

Get Started

Read all instructions above then click the following links to download.

Autodesk_Revit_Architecture_2012-x86_Update-2 (exe – 250 MB)

Autodesk_Revit_Architecture_2012-x64_Update-2 (exe – 280 MB)

Note: The update release can be applied to both the standalone and suite versions of Autodesk Revit Architecture 2012.

Above links and content are via:
Autodesk – Autodesk Revit Architecture Services & Support – Autodesk� Revit� Architecture 2012—English

I first heard about this update from the Revit Forum twitter feed:
Munkholm (RevitForum) on Twitter

Determine and pick the intersection of two complex surfaces

Luke Johnson

via AUGIWorld September 2011, page 36:
However, there is a phenomenon in Revit whereas if you
“join” any two solids together, they result in a new entity, the edges
of which are “pickable.” To illustrate this method, let’s create a sac-
rificial wall at the same location as the wall shown in Figure 9. Join
the wall and the roof surface. Notice that the roof surface now has
new edges where the wall profile line is located.

http://www.augi.com/images/uploads/augiworld_issues/AW201109_lr.pdf

Thanks for this article Marcello!

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