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Licking it up
My day to day findings with Autodesk's Revit Architecture and associated BIM software. Bugs, fixes, workarounds, great finds, and best procedures.
About Me
- Brian Renehan
- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- I am a BIM Manager / Consultant working in Melbourne, Australia.
When I'm not playing with Revit
Licking it up
Great Revit / BIM Blogs updated in the last few days
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Different types of clear cover in reinforcement concrete - This construction video tutorial provides brief instructions on how to arrange clear cover in different areas in proper quantities in reinforcement concret...1 day ago
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FindInserts Determines Void Instances Cutting Floor - Here is another brilliant and super succinct solution provided by Fair59, answering the Revit API discussion forum thread on how to get cutting void instan...2 days ago
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WhiteFeet Tools updated for Revit 2018 (very cool) - [image: WhiteFeet Tools updated for Revit 2018 (very cool)] I have posted about WhiteFeet Tools a few times over the years, it is an impressive toolkit. ...2 days ago
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Autodesk University London Review - I've just been at Autodesk University London for two days. Almost 1,400 delegates at the fantastic (but *slightly* warm) Tobacco Docks venue. A collection ...2 days ago
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Everybody Lies.... - One of the ongoing themes of the show "House" (a medical drama from a few years back, starring Hugh Laurie as a modern medical Sherlock Holmes) - is that "...3 days ago
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Navis 2018.1 Update and Autodesk Desktop App - I've had a few successes with AdA recently. It applied its own update and I've received a couple of notices for updates too. This morning I got such a mess...1 week ago
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EXPLORING AUTODESK NAVISWORKS - Navisworks is a 3D design review package by Autodesk that is used primarily in construction industri1 week ago
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WeWork Acquires FieldLens - WeWork, a well funded new generation construction management company just acquired FieldLens! The two companies appear to be a match made in heaven. And...2 weeks ago
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Benchwork Up! - Progress in the last week has resulted in the first half of benchwork being stood up! Thanks to Revit I had a detailed cutting plan to work from, and my e...3 weeks ago
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Upcoming Presentations @ Texas Design-U! - Join me Monday-Tuesday, June 5-6, at the Arlington Convention Center for the DFW BIM Infrastructure User Group (DFWBIUG) *Texas Design-U*. View the comple...5 weeks ago
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Navisworks 2018 is here… - Annual product launch is always a busy time of year for the Navisworks team and this year has been no different. We've completed some interesting projects ...5 weeks ago
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From Revit to Lumion - The Ultimate Review (Revisited) - Example of a House and Site Modeled in Revit and Rendered in Lumion This is one of those posts that has been in my "draft" queue for quite some time now...1 month ago
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BIM Model Safety - Over the last decade or so the construction industry has become more concerned with safety. With good reason, building sites can be dangerous places. A bu...1 month ago
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Help! My .dwg Is Too Large For Email - I was on tech support when a client called in with a question about making a .dwg file smaller. The client had used Revit to export a floor plan to a .dwg ...2 months ago
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It's Alive in the Lab: New Version fo Autodesk Design Review Released - The It's Alive in the Lab blog mentioned that there's a new version of Autodesk Design Review available: Read the blog article. DWF continues to go beyond ...2 months ago
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Change - I have heard some rumours about my role at Lendlease from internal as well as external well-wishers. Thank you for expressing your concerns about my role a...3 months ago
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The Spring Budget Has Done Little to Help the Need for Social Housing - The Spring Budget was announced this week, and always, the announcements were surrounded by controversy. The budget seemingly failed to ... The post The ...3 months ago
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Dynamo scripts portability - It's been my experience that writing scripts that work for different project files can be quite challenging. Writing scripts that work for different office...3 months ago
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Cloud rendering maintenance this weekend - This weekend there is scheduled maintenance for the cloud rendering service on Sunday March 5th 7AM - 8AM PST. During this time, cloud rendering will not b...3 months ago
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Backing Up and Recovering Revit Files - Standalone and Workshared Revit Files are backed up and restored in completely different ways. Here is an explanation and some best practices... You should...4 months ago
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What Did I Dimension Part 2 - Back in 2013 I did a post about understanding what a dimension was tied to, shortly after I learned another way to accomplish this task for an entire strin...4 months ago
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Navisworks 2017 Crashing - Updating Clash Tests - Wow, it's been a looooooong time since I've actually posted! We've been having an issue lately where Navisworks 2017 was crashing when some of our users we...4 months ago
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Inside Live - At The Factory, we strive to involve customers in shaping our products in many different ways, from interviews, usability testing, Preview Release testing,...7 months ago
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IFC4 - BIMserver is supporting IFC4 almost since the final version was released. We have the option to store data as IFC2x3 or as IFC4 and transform the data betw...7 months ago
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How to Stay in Phase when Revit Phases Disappear - Recently we ran into an issue where every phase in a project disappeared. The impossible situation of no phases happened. What's more the ability to add ph...7 months ago
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RTCEUR 2016 | BIG DATA | A Winning Combination - I am overjoyed, proud and humbled to announce that at the recent 2016 RTCEUR (Now BILT) I was voted by delegates AND other presenters as this year's winner ...7 months ago
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How to Find a London Locksmith - Whether you like it or not good professionals are hard to find. When it comes to find a good locksmith things get even trickier than you might have imagine...8 months ago
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BIMFix Framework for Shared Model Establishment - - For Building Lead Consultants using Autodesk® Revit®. BIMFix is pleased to announce this free downloadable framework which can be referenced from or att...8 months ago
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Back to School (2016) - Annual Update of Back to School Photos! 2002 - Preschool 2003 - Kindergarten 2004 - First and Preschool 2005 - Second and Kindergarten 2006 - Forgot ...9 months ago
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Using Samsung Gear S2 + Tizen after 3 years with Android Wear - I have recently been on holidays for 6 weeks in North America; midway through my trip my 3 year old LG G Watch battery gave out and refused to charge/switc...10 months ago
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3 One Bedroom Homes with Sharp Geometric Décor - Use daring geometric motifs is nil fresh to the earth of inside plan, but the fashion certainly make a huge resurgence lately additionally underwent quite ...10 months ago
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Numerical Data Out of Range - A Couple of Culprits - Occasionally when linking CAD files into Revit, the following message is thrown up: While not the end of the world, it can be mildly irritating. After a ...10 months ago
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Converting Wall-based casework to Face-based in Revit - Recently there was a need for a custom piece of Revit family casework which was inadvertently made using a wall-based family template. I came across this p...10 months ago
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BIM and Beam blog has been moved - Visit our new website: http://blogs.autodesk.com/bim-and-beam/ The blog will continue to evangelize Autodesk’s BIM story for the structural industry, and p...1 year ago
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Associated Builders and Contractor - News Release - News released today by the Associated Builders and Contractors [ABC] at 11 a.m. Eastern –”*Autodesk’s advanced full lifecycle construction technologies a...1 year ago
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BDP join forces with Nippon Koei - In more exciting news, BDP (Building Design Partnership) have been acquired by Japan's largest engineering consultancy Nippon Koei. More details can be ...1 year ago
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Geotechnical Sections and Log Strips in AutoCAD Civil 3D Webcast - Our partners in Geotechnical Keynetix are holding another webcast. UK Webinar – 13:00 GMT, Friday 4th March North America Webinar – 12:00 EST, Friday 4th M...1 year ago
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Creating Information Models - Are industry BIM presentations becoming too formulaic? *I tend to think so. * Why is it that so many BIM presentations start with an information focus and...1 year ago
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January 2016 Issue of our BIMTech Newsletter - Our January issue of BIMTech news has launched. check out the articles here. Archives here [image: HEAD BANNER IMG]1 year ago
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Introducing Autodesk Insight 360 - Over the past few years, you might have noticed that the Autodesk Building Performance Analysis team has had a fair amount of projects in Autodesk Labs or ...1 year ago
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UPSIDE DOWN BIM - I think that perhaps our biggest challenge in BIM is the different industry perspectives/ personalities and agendas that we have within the design/ buildin...1 year ago
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How to open a Revit Central File - After starting with the very early days of learning a relatively unknown software at the time, I thought I was (and to an extent, still consider myself) ...1 year ago
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RTC - Revit Technology Conference 2015 - WOOT.. directly after a lovely vacation I was whisked off to an AMAZING conference. Revit Technology Conference 2015 I had a chance to meet the original 2 ...1 year ago
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Facebook oder Neu.de – Wo flirtet es sich am besten? - Es versteht sich ja von selbst, dass jeder bei Facebook angemeldet ist. Aber wozu nutzt man das Social Network eigentlich? Klar, um mit Freunden und Bekann...2 years ago
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Igniting Urban Change: How Policy Dynamics Affect Business Ecosystems - What can research tell us about the way regulation impacts the work of design, construction and building occupation? A recent study sheds light on this que...2 years ago
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Tip - Increase / Decrease Focal Length of Camera - Great tip!! I wonder how long this has been available? I only have back to 2014 and it's available there. It's nice to be able to do this, just wish Autod...2 years ago
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Circular Reference Found... - http://whosafraidofthebigbadbim.blogspot.com/2012/03/lets-have-some-pi.html You know why... SO have some... Disclaimer:2 years ago
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Underlay Visibility Issue in Linked Models - *NOTE:* This is a re-post from the HOK BIM Solutions blog. Sorry it’s a bit late, playing catch-up! It appears that this problem has been around since Re...2 years ago
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Google’s BIM-busting App for Design and Construction - By Randy Deutsch AIA LEED AP Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of Github, believes there will only be two types of jobs in the future: people who code compute...2 years ago
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Autodesk Exchange Apps Hackathon - Sept 20-21, 2014 - An online event with an opportunity to receive up to US$100 per app published and win one of eight iPad minis! You are invited to join the Autodesk Exchang...2 years ago
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Add 2D PDF sheets with Autodesk Navisworks 2015 PDF reader - Lee talked in a recent post how 2D support is the #1 shocking thing you never knew about Autodesk Navisworks. As the post explains 2D is still widely used,...2 years ago
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Copy Spreadsheet for Revit 2015 - version - It has been another year, another Revit version and another release. We have released the most awaited 2015 version of our "Copy Spreadsheet for Revit" If ...2 years ago
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Two Perspectives & One Report on Return on Innovation Investment - A few years ago, I co-chaired a building industry conference on ROI2 (Return on Innovation Investment). We really wanted a conference with answers: what i...2 years ago
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Whoopsie... - Evidently a few of the links (most notably the God Is In The Data materials) werent working, as i had typed them in with their FTP addresses, and not the d...2 years ago
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So long... - You might have heard that I recently joined the dRofus leadership team and have not been blogging about CodeBook for some time now. I'll leave the blog ...2 years ago
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Hacking BIM - No, I’m not talking about the good kind of hacking, like the AEC Hackathon. I’m talking about the kind of hacking that steals your identity and buys a di...3 years ago
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So long, and Thanks for all the Fish... - And now for something completely different, stay tuned...3 years ago
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Dutch Revit Standards, English style - Haven't we covered this? You might have heard about the Dutch Revit Standards. If not, here's a post that pretty much sums it up: http://blog.revitforum.or...3 years ago
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Rent. That. Revit! - I’ve been waiting and hoping for this to happen for awhile now. For the past few months it’s been possible to do a monthly, quarterly, or annual rental of ...3 years ago
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3D Printing - Update - Here is an update to my original post of exporting a Revit model to STL for 3D printing... Click here to download. More to follow shortly.3 years ago
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Revit 2014 Update Release 1 Now Available For Download - Crash Reductions or Enhancements? - I am curious how fixing bugs is referred to as "Enhancements". It's like saying you gained 50 pounds to make you more well rounded. I guess it's safe to ...3 years ago
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New Filter Editor Capability in Vico Office Cost Planner - [image: New Filter Editor Capability in Vico Office Cost Planner] Two weeks ago, we released a new point release for Vico Office: Release 4.1. As custom...4 years ago
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Indicating Double Home Runs Correctly in Revit MEP - Revit MEP will allow you to indicate double home runs when circuiting electrical fixtures. This can be done by simply dragging a home run arrow from one ...4 years ago
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Autodesk Building Performance Analysis Blog - With this blog being mothballed I wanted to mention that you can now find out Building Performance Analysis related information, news, and learning materia...4 years ago
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Synchro release build 4.6.4.2 is ready and available to download - Main purpose of the build is to start beta testing company for AVEVA & Intergraph integration via ISO 15926 plug-in module. The only module has status of b...4 years ago
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BIM - BAM - BOOM - Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA – the CEO of HOK aka the father of the MacLeamy curve, discusses life after BIM.4 years ago
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Let's Try this Again - Okay, AU2012 is just around the corner which means I try to kick start my blog back up. Hopefully one of these years it sticks and I stay consistant with p...4 years ago
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State of Wisconsin BIM Standards - Updated - Just stumbled across this today... I'm kind of surprised I hadn't seen any updates about this new version! Any-hoo, checkout the updated BIM Standards for ...4 years ago
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Navisworks Keyboard Shortcuts for blazing fast clash reviews - Navisworks is a powerful tool and a very important part of our workflow, but as we dove deeper into Navisworks I realized it was an incredibly slow proce...5 years ago
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Join me for Coverage of Autodesk University 2011 - It's the week after Thanksgiving, which means that I'm back in Las Vegas attending the 18th Annual Autodesk University. Today is dedicated to special meeti...5 years ago
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Using Revit as a Team. Use Same Builds. - When using Revit on a project, make sure everyone on the team is using not only the same version, (2011, 2012, etc), but the same build number as well. Th...5 years ago
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IES and LEED Energy Modeling - For a couple years now many IES has placed much of there development efforts towards compliance with the Performance Rating Method of ASHRAE 90.1 (LEED Ene...6 years ago
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REVIT Users Group South Australia - The Group has redesigned its blog / website and can be found here… The next meeting is tonight (June 29th 2010) - I hope all goes well as I unfortunately c...6 years ago
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Imac 27 and Windows 7: the wireless keyboard and mouse finally work - I'm really enjoying using my new IMac 27. It works wonderfully with Windows 7. I also use Revit, and the screen size is perfect allowing two views of the m...7 years ago
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BIM on iPad shown off by Bentley systems - [image: bentley ipad] A great find for today, Laura Handler of bimX has had an interesting encounter at the annual Bentley conference - BE Community Live ...7 years ago
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Compiling and running .NET4.0 Revit commands - For those of you excited by .NET4.0’s new features and wanting to test Revit commands compiled with .NET4.0, you’re in luck. Before I show you how, a few...7 years ago
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Green Building Index - Green building is the rage now a days. There are some people who had asked me regarding this. This is how Malaysia Architects Association (PAM) rate the gr...7 years ago
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Building a Niche - Today’s business world is beginning to reward those with a niche. There are examples of this everywhere. Products and services that are designed for a very...8 years ago
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Understanding Virtual Enviornment - IES Virtual Environment is a comprehensive energy modelling and environmental analysis tool which can simulate just about everything happening to your buil...8 years ago
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64-bit Revit 2009 Utilities - The Avatech Revit Utilities for 2009 have been updated and now available for download and use with Revit Architecture, Revit Structure and Revit MEP 64-bit...8 years ago
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ABC3D Book - This is just too interesting not to share. Some gifted minds are just specially made to see objects and in this case typography in creative 3D.8 years ago
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What's BIM ... ... continued - That's why such topic is tricky: I was asked to write a "simplified" version of yesterday's. OK, never mind! Building Information Model, in essence, is a ...9 years ago
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REVIT ROTATE, REVISITED, RAGE RESOLVED - DON'T PANIC IF YOU HAVEN'T COME TO GRIPS WITH THE REVIT ROTATE COMMAND. This neat little trick really helped me come to terms with the Revit Rotate Command...10 years ago
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Revit Local User Group - The third Wed. of each month there is a Revit user group that meets at Avatech Solutions in Tampa, Florida. The upcoming meeting will be the third one and ...11 years ago
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