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The Revit Kid.com!

Got 10 Minutes? Learn Dynamo! (Dynamo Tutorial and News Inside!) - Over the last few weeks I have been running through some of the common reasons Revit Kid readers stated (through survey data) they have not started the...
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The Building Coder

Do Not Reuse an Existing GUID - Several Revit API objects make use of a GUID to uniquely identify themselves. When you copy and paste source code including any such GUID, you need to take...
16 hours ago
Construction Cost Estimating Blog

Types of bridge and bridge components - Bridges are generally made of various types and materials and an essential part of transportation. *Bridge*: It is mainly a structure which is built to stre...
17 hours ago
NBS Software Blog

Digital Construction Week 2017 - Day Two - Following on from yesterday's Day One review post - here is a quick review of Day Two... *Andrew Wolstenholme - Construction Leadership Council* I've been ...
1 day ago
BIM Content Network - BIMstop.com

revit objects collection part 9 - Free full version of this collection IN ONE POST: http://yon.ir/revitsen FOR CHARACTER-LIMITED WE CAN`T UPDATE THIS POST THANK YOU FOR COMING TO OUR...
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Trimble Navigation Ltd., News Release

SITECH Technology Dealer Established in Japan to Serve Heavy Civil Construction Contractors -
1 day ago
Navisworks — Blogs, Pictures, and more on WordPress

About the blog - This will be a blog where I will take a look at different problems, tips & tricks, coordination
4 days ago
Beyond Design

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4 days ago
What Revit Wants

Repath Hundreds of Revit Links Across Hundreds of Files In Batch Automatically With Dynamo - [image: Repath Hundreds of Revit Links Across Hundreds of Files In Batch Automatically With Dynamo] The Revit API is actually something pretty special. P...
4 days ago
Collaborative Construction Blog

Initial Coin Offerings on the Blockchain Under SEC Scrutiny - The SEC recently issued a ruling that indicated certain initial coin offerings on the blockchain may involve the sale of securities. The substantive pap...
2 weeks ago
practical BIM

Use a Revit Road Map to get to BIM - Unless you want to get hopelessly lost all journeys require a road map. Sure you can wing it and see where it gets you, but using a road map means you wil...
2 weeks ago
Revit OpEd

Phases are Deleted - Electrical Issue - Cancel placing a wire - A client shared this issue with me a couple of weeks ago and Autodesk has acknowledged it as a bug. If you've already installed 2018.1 it has been patched, ...
3 weeks ago
Revit Sticky Notes

Larsen & Toubro - I am pleased to announce publicly that I have joined Larsen & Toubro Construction as their Head of BIM Strategy. Look forward to collaborating with L&T su...
3 weeks ago
Adventures in the World of BIM

3D Connexion Wireless CAD Mouse -
3 weeks ago
don't think: Do Revit

I've been working on the railroad.... - Not as much as I wish... Lots of things going in life, but in the last week+ I've found a few moments to put some time in. I was able to rig up some tempor...
1 month ago
Autodesk AEC software

Revit Bridge categories - Recently I was playing with a script, in Revit 2018, that gets all the Revit categories in a model. I was actually trying to see if I could filter that lis...
1 month ago
Arch | Tech

Back to School (2017) - Annual Update of Back to School Photos! 2002 - Preschool 2003 - Kindergarten 2004 - First and Preschool 2005 - Second and Kindergarten 2006 - Forgot ...
1 month ago
Beyond the Silos

Round-tripping with Revit and RSA at AU 2017 - Autodesk University 2017 registration is open! It's hard to believe it's that time of year again. Last year, I taught a couple of hands-on labs covering st...
2 months ago
REVIT Structure Learning Curve

A More LT Version of LT - Post have been on the thin side on this blog primarily because I don't really have a need for full blown Revit these days populated with lots of informati...
2 months ago
Beyond the Paper

DWF Files and Autodesk Forge - The purpose of DWF files is to go beyond the paper. DWF files can be shared with stakeholders who do not have design authoring software. They are integral ...
2 months ago
revit in plain english

Revit 2018.1 Bringing Sanity to Graphic Options! - Autodesk has released Revit 2018.1. Many have been talking about the updated Dynamo Player with user input and with good reason, it's a great feature. The...
3 months ago
CAD Application Development

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 months ago
Ideate Solutions

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 ...
6 months ago
BIM Journal

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 ...
7 months ago
The Revit Clinic

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...
7 months ago
BD Mackey Consulting | The Revit Geek Blog

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...
8 months ago
Navisworks InfoCenter

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...
8 months ago
Inside the Factory

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,...
10 months ago
BIMserver.org

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...
11 months ago
buildz

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11 months ago
CAD Shack

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...
11 months ago
Fear and Loathing In a CAD vs. BIM World

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 ...
11 months ago
Revit Programming

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...
11 months ago
BIM Fix

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...
1 year ago
Revit Rants

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...
1 year ago
CADuzer

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 ...
1 year ago
Revit @ Waterman

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 ...
1 year ago
iRevit

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...
1 year ago
BIM & BEAM

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
Applied Software Blog

- Inventor 2017 New Features First in a series of “My Favorite New Features” Under the category of *Part Creation*, a new Feature Relationship tool is avai...
1 year ago
cad methodology vs. bim philosophy

[9² = 81] + [7² = 49] + [5² = 25 ] + [3² = 9] + 1 = 165 Shallow Tote Configuration -
1 year ago
Revit

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
From the Ground Up

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
REVIT - for real

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
Revit Beginners

- It's great to be a beginner again. 10 years was a good run but I have moved on to other projects. Thank you for following.
1 year ago
Duct Duct Pipe

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
Inside the System

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
BIM BOOM BAM

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...
2 years ago
My Revit Blog

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) ...
2 years ago
BIM WITS

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 ...
2 years ago
Revit TotD

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
BusinessofBIM

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
Revit ArchCenter

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
Who's afraid of the Big Bad BIM?

Circular Reference Found... - http://whosafraidofthebigbadbim.blogspot.com/2012/03/lets-have-some-pi.html You know why... SO have some... Disclaimer:
2 years ago
Do U Revit?

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
BIMology

BIM 360 Filed API gets a decent overhaul -
2 years ago
BIM + Integrated Design

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
BIM Apps

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...
3 years ago
dODDS and ENDS

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,...
3 years ago
Revitize - Another Revit Blog

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 ...
3 years ago
(bim)x

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...
3 years ago
Malleristic Revitation

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...
3 years ago
CodeBook

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 ...
3 years ago
All Things BIM

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
BIM BS (Building Services of course!)

So long, and Thanks for all the Fish... - And now for something completely different, stay tuned...
3 years ago
RevitForum Blog

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...
4 years ago
Daily Occurrence

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 ...
4 years ago
Revit - USA

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.
4 years ago
Revit3D.com / DesignBIMBuild.com - BIMBoom Revitlution - BIM Unfiltered

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 ...
4 years ago
Revit Components

- OUR NEW WEBSITE IS *http://parametriccomponents.com/* *PLEASE DOWNLOAD OUR* *FREE* *HIGH QUALITY* *PARAMETRIC* *COMPONENTS* thnx
4 years ago
Vico Community | Vico Blogs | BIM Construction | Vico Software

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
Knowing What You Don't Know About CAD

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
The Sustainable Design Toolbox

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
Synchro Blog

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
NavisWorks

BIM - BAM - BOOM - Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA – the CEO of HOK aka the father of the MacLeamy curve, discusses life after BIM.
4 years ago
Revit Workflow

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
BIM and IPD

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 ...
5 years ago
BIM Manager

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
RevitUp

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
Revit MEP

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
GREEN BIM NETWORK

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
Onuma System

- BIM and Cloud Computing Returns to Washington DC at Ecobuild America The award-winning BIMStorm is roaring back to Ecobuild America® with the eye of the BIM...
7 years ago
South Australian Revit Users Group

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...
7 years ago
Revit Wonders

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
archiCADmonkey

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
BOLT OUT OF THE RED

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
Revit Bimmer

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
HOK CAD Solutions

HOK Takes BIM Seriously - Please visit our new site >>>> HOK BIM Solutions
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Zooming with Revit

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
GREEN BIM

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
Green Revit

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
Archin3D

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.
9 years ago
BIM-Technology-Range

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
Revit Anonymous

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
Revidiot

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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Monday, June 23, 2008

Fire Egress Distances

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