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Tag Archives: ModelStrategy
Orienting and Color Coding
Our medical office building project is rolling along, with consultant model updates weekly and clash reviews prompting a lot of webinar meetings. Two things we discovered really quickly: 1) Without direct access to Navisworks Manage, we couldn’t get updated reports, … Continue reading
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Tagged ClashDetection, ModelReview, ModelStrategy, ProjectManagement, Revit
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Preparing for Navisworks Clash Detection
Many of the smaller firm clients I work with do not have in-house access to Navisworks for broader, multi-discipline clash detection, but may be contributing a model to be reviewed in Navis through the primary consultant, or the contractor on … Continue reading
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Tagged BestPractice, ClashDetection, ModelStrategy, ProjectManagement, Revit, Schedules
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Nesting Shared Elements
Combining a bunch of stuff into a single family (nesting) makes modeling more efficient, and can be less of a processing hit than groups – but there are some things to consider – specifically, if the nested elements should be … Continue reading
Project Start Up – Site File
Although a Revit file can be a complete site, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND teams model the SITE separately from the BUILDING. Here’s why: 1) Buildings are modeled in PROJECT NORTH by default. This makes for more accurate models/data, and supports the … Continue reading
Protected: Customizing Keynotes
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T.I. Test Fit Guidelines
Test fit requests often precede actual T.I. contracts, and are typically a very basic per-square-footage fee. As such, budgets rarely allow for 3D build-out of existing spaces, and the goal is primarily to get area summaries and office/workstation counts against … Continue reading
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Tagged BestPractice, ModelStrategy, Pre-Design, programming, ProjectManagement, Schedules
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Why/When to use Shared Parameters
Revit is an Object Oriented Database, using numeric ‘handles’ to track data fields, and associate them to individual elements, via category definition. This invisible ‘handle’ is more important than the name of the parameter itself in correctly consolidating information. Whenever … Continue reading
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Tagged customization, DocumentationWorkflow, ModelStrategy, Revit, Schedules
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Points on Point Clouds
Having had the past pleasure (uhem) of working with client-provided point clouds, I was excited to view the AU2012 session on ‘Scan to BIM: Point Clouds Reloaded” presented by Kelly Cone of Beck Group. While a handout will never be … Continue reading
Protected: Revit Resource Files
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Guiding a model team
I’m often doing ‘forensic analysis’ on project files – either for new clients, or in some cases, reviewing past project files before an upcoming new scope of work. A primary aspect of reviewing models is not just finding issues, but … Continue reading