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To Edit or Not To Edit…
Firms take different approaches to template files. Some, (I’m looking at you @twiceroadsfool) like to load ’em up with most everything a project needs, and let the teams weed out what they find they don’t need. Others take a more … Continue reading
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Tagged Annotations, BestPractice, Implementation, Legends, Revit, UserInterface
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Resolving Redundant Rooms
This is an addition to the original post on resolving ‘not placed’ rooms New users are often befuddled by how to place Room Tags in open-flowing areas. They quickly drop rooms into the zones of a plan, name them and … Continue reading
Show History Comments
I’m a big advocate of milestone archives (surprisingly, its less common than you’d think). Making a significant revision mid-way between milestone deliverables? Archive. Getting ready to clean up the model by ‘accepting’ Design Options? Archive. This leads to me being … Continue reading
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Tagged BestPractice, DocumentationWorkflow, ProjectManagement, Revit
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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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Revit pumpkin carving!
Used the holiday to introduce the teams to adaptive components for creating complex geometry. In this case, a parametric pumpkin, that each person then carved out with voids. Here’s my sample: And rendered with ‘candles’ inside:
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
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