To get 5% off your Revizto annual purchase, use this code:
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Instructions:
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- Add the desired number of annual subscriptions
- Type the code LUKEJH and press Ok
- The discounted price should appear
What Revit Wants
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Cooking in the Bakery today:
From here we could export a list of Element IDs to CSV, make a Selection Set by Elements using Clockwork, or use one of the Select in Revit nodes.
As you can see, to make a string list in a code block, you need to enclose list in curly brackets, divide with commas and use quotation marks around the entries themselves. More about code blocks at:
http://dynamobim.com/cbns-for-dummies/
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Oh, and across devices too. You might say “hey, I’ve heard of Revizto before“. Someone tweeted today “”Even if we could get the model into a game engine, it would be difficult to navigate.” We can. It isn’t.”
Revizto has been providing smooth, great-looking visualizations of your Revit model for a while now. It has some very cool features, like Oculus Rift support (fun!) But its not just about the game-smooth graphics anymore.. I’m excited about something else…
Firstly, the big picture: what does Revizto do? Well, it shares your 3D model with others via the cloud, which is pretty normal these days. But over the past few months (and especially the last few days), it has added collaboration features that make it an extremely useful tool for BIM teams. Some of these are:
If you like videos, maybe start here:
Revizto bridges some obvious gaps in current Autodesk interoperability scenarios, as it allows you to easily:
Also, compared to various other collaboration services, it is relatively inexpensive, especially given the level of functionality it provides.
So how do we get started with Revizto? Here’s a quick few steps:
Once an issue is created, you can easily switch between multiple different representations:
You can also quickly create or export issues to BCF. It uses the bcfzip format, so imagery and viewpoint information is all included.
Issues can be quickly tagged to create custom lists of related issues too.
A few beginner-style tips:
Grids and Rooms visible in 3D Map view |
What’s New in 3.4:
Some more general info and screenshots below:
Manual Introduction • Revizto Editor User Manual
What is it again?
Revizto is a tool that transforms heavy-weight 3D data into navigable lightweight scene in one click. The resulting scene can be opened with free Revizto Viewer on PC, Mac, iPad and Android tablets or in any web browser with Unity plugin. Revizto Workspace allows users to upload their projects to cloud storage and access them from any point of the globe. Revizto works with the most architectural and 3D-modelling software (Revit, SketchUp and any software that supports FBX export).
Installation screenshot (addins):
Platform includes:
To conclude: give the latest version a go, and feel free to comment with your thoughts.
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Most of these are bug fixes, and some BIM360 Glue integration performance improvements. Details and direct links below:
Autodesk Navisworks 2016 Service pack 2 delivers user experience and stability improvements to the Autodesk BIM 360 integration. Service pack 2 also addresses problems identified in other parts of Autodesk Navisworks 2016. Service Pack 2 also includes all of the updates from Service Pack 1. Service Pack 2 can be installed on either the original version or the Service Pack 1 version of Autodesk Navisworks 2016.
Autodesk_Navisworks_2016_Service_Pack_2_Multilingual_Freedom_64bit.msp (msp – 78Mb)
Autodesk_Navisworks_2016_Service_Pack_2_Multilingual_Manage_64bit.msp (msp – 101Mb)
Autodesk_Navisworks_2016_Service_Pack_2_Multilingual_Simulate_64bit.msp (msp – 101Mb)
Readme
Autodesk Navisworks 2016 Service Pack 2 Feature readme.pdf (pdf – 422Kb)
Autodesk Navisworks 2016 Service Pack 2 Installation readme.pdf (pdf – 308Kb)
Check out this excellent forum post by Tobias Hathorn, in which he describes the best workflow for Sketchup to Revit conversion via FormIt 360. Interestingly, the major steps are:
Some more detail here, reproduced from the post:
The one ‘gotcha’ (which should be kind of obvious)… if the model is poorly constructed geometrically in SketchUp, then that same geometry will come down the pipe into FormIt and eventually into Revit…
Another comment about size – you’ll get better results componentizing your SketchUp import – doing a blanket conversion of your entire existing SketchUp model will take longer and be a MUCH bigger memory footprint.
Here are the steps for SketchUp conversion…
Here are the steps for FormIt categorization…
Here are the steps for FormIt to Revit conversion…
Thanks Tobias!
Original post:
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/formit-360-general-discussion/sketchup-conversion/m-p/5670578#M235
Have you ever exploded a SAT or DWG in the Family Environment, and then gone looking for the Visibility Settings ribbon button for one of the resulting freeform elements? Its not there:
But, as you can see from the image above, you can still access these settings by using the Properties Palette – Visibility/Graphics button.
Its a long-winded title, but its only one Dynamo node… Just added to the Bakery package, called Collect Elements in Rooms and Show Detailed List. Basically, it takes a list of Rooms and a list of Elements and then tells you which Rooms those Elements are in. It also works across linked files, so you can have a fixture model, link in the Architectural containing Rooms, and use those to do the comparison.
Once we have the Room that an element lives in (mostly thanks to Konrad’s work on Family.InRoom, which I have altered a little bit here), we can do lots of things. I used a Cycle and LaceShortest to get a 1:1 list of Room:Element. This makes it easier to do things with the resulting combined lists. Like, one of the outputs of the node is a detailed 6 index list, which can be directly exported to Excel. The list in Excel can then be filtered by Room. You can choose two parameters from Rooms, two from the Elements, and it also gives you the Element Ids of both:
I could have added headers to the list in Dynamo, but I didn’t do it for this first version (yet):
We can also take a parameter from a Room (like Room Name or Room Number) and then write it directly into a parameter in the Elements, like this:
This shows the Mark parameter populated with Room Name:
Or, we can take two parameters from linked Architectural rooms, and drive two Shared Parameters in every element in the current model. I ran the following node to set parameters for about 2500 elements in just a couple of minutes:
Or, we can use another Bakery node to do a wildcard search and collect elements from one Category across multiple links, and then check against these:
While this is a basic implementation at this stage (and no doubt there may be some hiccups), it demonstrates a powerful concept: to be able to take a mixture of linked Rooms and/or linked Elements and determine their relationship, then export that data or use it to instantly drive other parameters in Revit.
Goooo Dynamo!
I’ve added this checking node to the Bakery package. Much of the credit goes to Andreas Dieckmann for the Family.IsInPlace node in the Clockwork package:
You may also be interested in copying a non-schedulable property to another parameter for a list of elements. This Bakery node works for things like Workset too:
I reviewed RTV Xporter PRO late last year, but there have been a few updates and new features since then so I thought I’d briefly list them here. For less than $50US per user, you get a lot of automation capability. A 2016 compatible version is now available. Also, a new build for Revit 2015 has been released.
Here are some of the new features in Xporter PRO 2015 build (599):
A few of the other key features of this addin:
If you want to know more, you can check out my November 2014 review:
What Revit Wants: Automatic Batch Printing and Exporting from Revit that could save you Dollars and Time (RTV Xporter Pro review)