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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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Forge Design Automation for Revit - Today, I am presenting a class on Design Automation for Revit or DA4R at the Forge DevCon preceding the German Autodesk University in Darmstadt What is For...9 hours ago
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can't open this 3D container dwg in archicad 21 - hi there, downloading and unzipping doesn't allow me to see anythung in archicad 21. anything that i can do? any advice appreciated. thanks19 hours ago
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Benefits of post lintel structure - Post & Lintel is an easy form of construction that includes posts to bear horizontal beams or lintels found in timber-framed work or in columnar and trabea...1 day ago
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Performance - A good friend of me has a computer which is completely water cooled. His setup is really cool, very quiet and very fast. He knows quite a bit about tweakin...1 week ago
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Change a System Parameter from Type to Instance - Not Length - It is fairly common knowledge that we can change a built-in parameter like *Width *from *Type* to *Instance* by going *through the side door*, selecting a ...1 week ago
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CanBIM Toronto 2018 - NBS presentation - To watch my presentation from CanBIM Toronto 2018, please click play on the video below. It covers three areas: 1. Setting a BIM strategy 2. The imp...3 weeks ago
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How to Get Latest Uniclass 2015 Tables in Excel Format - [image: How to Get Latest Uniclass 2015 Tables in Excel Format] Thanks to @BIM4GIB we have a script to automatically download the latest Uniclass 2015 ta...3 weeks ago
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Case Study - Rocky Mountain Modern House - Even though this project is from a couple years back I’ve been wanting to use it as a case study and share it on the blog since it’s completion. *Why?* ...3 weeks ago
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Voice of Blockchain Event - I'll be presenting at the Voice of Blockchain event in Chicago at the Navy Pier this Saturday. Anyone interested in learning more about how blockchain c...1 month ago
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AU 2018 - Go Vote NOW for your favorite classes - Busy, busy, busy, my life for the past 12 months. Being full time on a project running 3D MEPFP coordination, an extremely fast paced project, really keep...3 months ago
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Bentley Acquires Synchro - This is a very good news for the infrastructure industry worldwide! Bentley acquires Synchro. Since I started implementing 4D planning across constructio...3 months ago
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Initial Yard Operation - Squeezing in one night a week over the last few weeks I've managed to get the new yard operational. All of the track is not laid yet so I still am lack my ...5 months ago
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How to manage a trade construction model establishment? - As soon as you have a project in the early stage of construction, you can quickly get overloaded with models. Design and construction shop models are comin...5 months ago
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The Future is Now - Mark Mendez from EvolveLAB has a great article in AUGIWorld this month on *MEP Systems: Autodocumentation to Fabrication.* When people ask me where BIM i...7 months ago
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You Made This a Winner, AU 2017 Attendees! - A few days ago, Autodesk announced the winners of the AU 2017 Speaker Awards. As I scrolled through the post, I was very pleased to find my name and lab s...8 months ago
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Updated: What's so hot about that Autodesk Forge thing? - Let's say you've been an Autodesk customer for a long time. You've got decades of your intellectual property captured in AutoCAD drawings. If you'd like to...9 months ago
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Revit 2018 eTransmit to upgrade project files - I have written briefly about advantages to the Autodesk eTransmit for Revit, the 2018 version made a small but significant improvement. While talking to t...10 months ago
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SmartPlant 3D loaders for Navisworks – Updated! - Hi Everyone, Just wanted to provide an update for SmartPlant 3D (.vue) file format support in Navisworks. On Friday we published updates to the 2016, 207 p...1 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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 year ago
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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...1 year ago
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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...1 year 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 "...1 year 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 ...1 year 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 ...1 year 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...1 year 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,...1 year 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...1 year 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 ...1 year 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...1 year 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...2 years 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 ...2 years 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 ...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years 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 ...2 years 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...2 years 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...2 years 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]2 years 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 ...2 years 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...3 years 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) ...3 years 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 ...3 years 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...3 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...3 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...3 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:3 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...3 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...3 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...4 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,...4 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 ...4 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...4 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...4 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 ...4 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...4 years ago
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So long, and Thanks for all the Fish... - And now for something completely different, stay tuned...4 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...5 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 ...5 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.5 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 ...5 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...5 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 ...5 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...5 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...5 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.5 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...5 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 ...6 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...6 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...6 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...6 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...7 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...8 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...8 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 ...8 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...8 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...8 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...9 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...9 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...9 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.10 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 ...10 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...11 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 ...12 years ago
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