BIM News #03

Room Based Task Lists for Revit Tutorial

In this BIG "BAD" BIM Tip of the Week Jim shares his technique for creating room based task lists for Revit tutorial. Using a room schedule as a type of task or checklist is such a great idea for sole practitioners or those working in teams.

Use "Count" in Revit Schedule Formula Tutorial

In this BIG "BAD" BIM Tip of the Week Peter shares an awesome tip that lets you use the "Count" value in Revit schedule for calculations in a Revit formula.

Revit Tutorial - Create a Door Hardware Schedule

The key schedule feature can be used to create a doors hardware set schedule in Revit. You will also learn how to export and import this data to Excel, so a consultant can fill up the schedule for you.

RV FamilyPurge

Have you tried everything to reduce a Revit model’s file size? How about opening each family loaded in your model, do Purge Unused, repeat for any nested families, and reload things back into your project?

If that sounds like an enormous task, RV FamilyPurge will make you smile! It’s the one-click solution for cleaning all loaded families in your model, including all their nested components no matter how many nesting levels deep.

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Model MEP Elements from CAD Lines

This tool is designed to Model MEP elements automatically such as (Pipes, Ducts, Cable Trays, Conduits, and Wires) from CAD Lines by layer names; this add-in will save a tremendous amount of time in the project.

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Insight Workflows - Exporting Results with Higher Accuracy

When performing more refined comparisons within?Autodesk Insight, it is helpful to export the results to a table, for a more accurate pEUI value... up to 8 decimal places. Today's post is an example from a current?Lake|Flato

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Comparing Revit Solar Analysis to NREL PVWatts

Today's post highlights a comparison?Dan Stine did between?Autodesk Solar Analysis?and?NREL PVWatts. A key takeaway is we can get accurate results using Solor Analysis, on any Revit project, in minutes.

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Creating your own Custom Designs for Nested RevitHQ Families

Creating your own nested and shared families and using them within?RevitHQ?families is a simple process that requires only a basic understanding of the family creation environment.

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The Open CDE APIs

The latest APIs recently added are now part of Open?CDE (Common Data Environment), which will group several different functional APIs. Currently the Open CDE APIs are composed of 2 APIs: Foundations and BCF, with Documents being the next to be released.

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Draping temperature data from a thermal image across the Forge viewer scene - Part 1

The basic idea was to analyse the data in the thermal image, and – for the corresponding 3D view, which we already have – to “drape” the temperature onto the 3D locations represented in the image. Kean Walmsley initially thought about creating a coloured sphere at each location, but decided to skip that and directly use the Forge viewer’s?Data Visualization Extension?to display coloured?sprites?instead. One benefit of this approach would be the ability to display tooltips for each of these sprites, something we’ll see in Part 2.

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