What Revit Wants
Synopsis:
This short paper sets out Andy Black‘s personal observations based upon four decades of working in the hospital world.
Link
Download the full white paper ‘Notes on the design of hospitals and their clinical organisation’, from the Australian HealthCare Week site…
via
A New Approach for the Design of Tomorrow’s Hospital – A2K Technologies Blog
From joan.allen on the Ideastation:
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I’m happy to announce that you can view gridlines on the iPad app – and control the visibility settings of grids in both 2D and 3D view – with the BIM 360 Glue iPad app V3.0 that was released today. Learn more here about the new 2D to 3D “Map” navigation feature and gridline controls: http://youtu.be/ILqdJVjloA0
Related post:
http://autode.sk/1vItZ2K
This tip comes from Troy. He has provided a simple Dynamo definition to set the element Mark to Element ID. It is very fast, and I have tested it on a fairly large data set. As usual though, ‘use at your own risk’ etc.
I posted about how Bonus Tools can handle this too, over here.
How to use it:
Basically, it iterates through each Category in the left most part of the diagram, and sets the Mark parameter to the Element ID. If you aren’t using Mark for anything else, this will instantly clear duplicate mark warnings for those Categories. You could expand or reduce the list by adding or removing Categories and All Elements of Category node sets.
I made a trimmed down version for one Category (Sprinklers), but you can use this to choose a specific Category if you just want to do one at a time.
Thanks to this email from Troy:
Here you go. Feel free to post it and use it as you wish. It is fairly straightforward.
At the left is all of the categories I was checking in my model (mostly mechanical and plumbing). To add or change them just copy and paste the two left boxes, then add an array to the list create. The list count and watch to the top are just there to tell me how many items are being modified. I did about 30,000 objects in all of 30 seconds in one button push.
I’m no expert with Dynamo but I just did this with a spare hour I had int he morning.
I obviously take no responsibility for any damage it may do to any projects, files or computers etc etc.
Regards,
Troy
I’ve spent the past year working in a coordination role on the new Royal Adelaide Hospital project. The sheer number and complexity of the Revit models involved is immense. But here is something interesting:
So… if Revit is good enough for the 3rd most expensive building in the world, don’t you think it’s time you took some action? Maybe its time to get Revit, get learning, and enjoy the ride!
According to Emporis:
The most expensive buildings in the world | Statistics | EMPORIS
and via
The 9 Most Expensive Buildings Ever Aren’t What You’d Expect
Here is what it looks like today, 13 February 2015:
Some related documents:
http://www.sahp.com.au/downloads/Fact_Sheet_09_%20BIM.pdf
For some projects, Revit Warnings become a metric in model audit processes (this may be regardless of how much impact those warnings may have in real terms). For example, perhaps your model has become populated with many “Elements have duplicate ‘Mark’ values“. How can we fix these quickly?
I explored a number of options, and I think I have found the easiest. In one particular situation, the Mark value was not important for documentation, and it was simply necessary to make them unique to clear the warnings. What if we could also grab some otherwise unavailable information and apply it to the item? Like Element ID or GUID?
Bonus Tools can do that. Here’s the steps:
After clicking Ok, the tool will quickly copy the unique ID into the Mark parameter. You can now tag it or schedule it (keeping in mind that it is a static value and may need to be updated from time to time). What I like is how quickly the tool runs – it can do an entire category of thousands of elements in a minute or so.
Note: you could also use Bonus Tools to:
There have been various other automated ways suggested to fix this over the years, such as:
Automatic Numbering of Elements Within Revit 2015 – Cadline Community
using element positioning
Revit OpEd: Duplicate Mark Values
using Model Review
UPDATE: Recent updates to Bonus Tools include
When building Revit addins, you may want to implement some specific selection filter. Here is some more good stuff via Alexander Buschmann and The Building Coder:
The zip file SelFilters.zip contains
Source:
The Building Coder: SelFilter, a Powerful Generic Selection Filter Utility
To try it out:
Related screenshots:
And screencast showing the examples:
Good intro to Revit customization:
http://help.autodesk.com.s3.amazonaws.com/sfdcarticles/kA230000000tiXXCAY/handout_2116_CM2116.pdf
From the help:
Help: External Commands
Setting up an External Command in Revit 2015:
EXTERNAL COMMAND IN 10 STEPS FOR REVIT 2015 API
You can use the “Require” option. Any item that is set to “Required” will show as red, while normal unrequired items will remain black. This allows you to quickly, visually review two sets of models for differences, without having to check the Properties – Source File Name constantly:
Obviously, the Required function isn’t really meant for this – Navisworks will try to always keep those items drawn in the scene, so keep that in mind if you are having performance problems after making many items Required.
Also, don’t forget about Properties+… I have also shared my JSON property set for this Navisworks addin over here. You can put it into your UsersUsername folder to get started quickly:
Did you ever notice this little button, available in the Manage Images dialog in Revit 2015?
Although it is pretty self-evident, here you can replace an image by reloading from a different one. You can also use the Reload button to reload an image from the ‘saved path’.
Example:
This was a platform enhancement in 2015, as per:
About Managing Images | Revit Products | Autodesk Knowledge Network
You can read more about it at:
About Managing Images | Revit Products | Autodesk Knowledge Network
To simulate a temporary search set in Glue, select an object and view its properties. Then, right-click on the desired “search” property and click Select Similar:
To merge Clash Groups in Navisworks:
Screencast of above:
As you probably know, Google Earth Pro adds some useful extra features for AEC and BIM… enjoy.
via
LinkedIn
More on the free release:
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com.br/2015/01/google-earth-pro-is-now-free.html
