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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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Experiments with AI - 03 - Looking into the future - Premortem - While making a tech based innovative proposal, I used AI to understand the potential flaws/pit falls in my proposal. We often fail to identify potential p...5 weeks ago
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باقة 10 - من نمذجة الأنظمة الكهربائية إلى إدارة مشاريع بيم - 🚀 باقة (10) إدارة مشروعات BIM لـ مهندس كهرباء رحلة من نمذجة الأنظمة الكهربائية إلى إدارة مشاريع BIM1 month ago
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Build Revit Tools with AI in an Afternoon (w/Michael Kilkelly) - Replay - Michael Kilkelly from ArchSmarter joined me for Episode 139 to show how AI has changed what one person can build for Revit. The short version... a cu...4 months ago
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Revit Properties Organization 2026 - Years ago I pondered how do Revit organize the Property sets once a family is loaded into a project. It has been several years and Revit has introduces sev...7 months ago
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Topography Background Process - Can't Save - Not being able to save a project because "background processing" is running is VERY dumb!9 months ago
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What is the purpose of ISO 19650 suitability codes? - When working with ISO 19650 CDE documents, you might wonder: *What is the purpose of suitability codes?* *The primary purpose of these codes is to provi...10 months ago
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Add-In Threads and Geometry Comparison - Deep Revit API questions requiring clarification and a simple database connection issue resolved Add-in threads GeometryObject comparison methods Accessing...3 years ago
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5 tips for a better work-life balance - Achieving the right work-life balance is a very important part of life. Working too much can burn you out making you unproductive at work and it will also ...3 years ago
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NBS Journal 2002 - Edition One - I'm a collector of NBS items from the past (see all posts tagged 'History') so when I found this NBS Journal Edition One from 2002 I thought I'd photogra...3 years ago
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Solution for “Revit 2021 Fails to Link Revit Model and Provides No Error Message” - Problem: I was recently trying to link Revit models to a federated file on Revit 2021. The models were failing to link, but no error message or warning w...4 years ago
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Xxnamexx - Xxnamexx - Bagi sebagian orang, menonton film adalah hobi yang menyenangkan. Ya, mungkin kamu pun adalah orang yang suka nonton film. Jika dulu menonton fi...5 years ago
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Tribal Burial Sites Being Desecrated by Border Wall Construction - The Kumeyaay people, whose nearness along the San Diego-Mexico border went before the international limit presently assigned by fencing President Donald...6 years ago
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AU 2019, Session 1 of 2: Structural Workflows, Continued! - I am excited to announce that I will have the privilege of returning to Autodesk University this fall to teach two classes; the first will be a hands-on l...7 years ago
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The DWF Format was invented by Autodesk but was AutoCAD? - Autodesk has a large array of products and services. Some were developed internally such as Fusion 360 and Inventor whereas others were acquired such as Re...7 years ago
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Numbers to Strings - I often run into the situation in Dynamo that I need to convert numbers to strings. Most of the time I end up with strings containing many decimals like ....7 years 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...8 years ago
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Plenty of Progress! - Ack! Where did the time go, I had all sorts of good intentions of additional posts, but the choice between time spent on the RR versus time spent documenti...8 years 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 ...8 years ago
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Autodesk University India - In December 2017, I was privileged to be invited to deliver a talk on BIM and Business Value at Autodesk University India in Bangalore. Thanks Autodesk In...8 years 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...9 years 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 "...9 years 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 b...9 years ago
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Revit Live: Explore Your Model - Transform your Revit models into interactive visualizations you can step into and explore with Revit Live! This cloud-based software allows you to move ar...9 years 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 ...9 years 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...9 years ago
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Dynamo Users Group Toronto: Revit Pub Night-Winter Session - Dynamo Users Group Toronto: Revit Pub Night-Winter Session: Register Here: https://www.solidcad.ca/event/revit-pub-night-winter-session/ Revit Pub Night – ...9 years 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...9 years 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,...9 years ago
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Ice Station Zebra - If you occasionally have a spare Sunday afternoon, you may have seen Ice Station Zebra. Padded with commercial breaks, the thing could go for three and a ...10 years 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 ...10 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 ...10 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...10 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...10 years 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...10 years ago
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AECX Los Angeles | Digging in the Dirt | Pushing Technological Boundaries - Family, Friends, Colleagues, Technologists, Next Friday, April 29th, 2016, Los Angeles sees the 1st AECX; an interactive day-long event for AECO Profession...10 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...10 years ago
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It's Time to Get Rid of BIM. - *" It's time to get rid of BIM " - *those are words that I bet you never thought you would read on a blog called BIM - for real. But this concept is som...10 years ago
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December 2015 Issue of our BIMTech Newsletter - Our December issue of BIMTech news has launched. check out the articles here . Archives here [image: Dec city pic 3]10 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 ...10 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...11 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) ...11 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...11 years ago
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The Future of AEC - Teaching the second year undergraduate construction sequence of courses is challenging. Students, already smitten with studio, see required tech courses as...11 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...11 years ago
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Lookup Tables and a Little Chat - Getting the Type Name into a Text Parameter - I've very recently been looking at using Revit lookup tables for structural families. These are traditionally used in the MEP side of things, but I have be...11 years ago
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Independence for Elevation Marks Everywhere - This was a nice way to start off my New Year. Let's say you have a water closet. The interior elevation mark fits fine in a 1/2" scale enlarged plan, but o...11 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...11 years ago
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Turning the Page - Recently, I turned the page and started a new chapter in my work life. I’ve moved on from being an Application Engineer for an Autodesk reseller in the Ch...12 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...12 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,...12 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...12 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...12 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...12 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...12 years ago
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So long, and Thanks for all the Fish... - And now for something completely different, stay tuned...12 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....13 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 ...13 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.13 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 ...13 years ago
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Why consider me for your next Revit/BIM project? - I had someone tell me the other day that I was not being considered for a role as they thought I wan't qualified enough as a BIM expert... As such I thou...13 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...13 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 ...13 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...13 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.13 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...13 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 ...14 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...14 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...14 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...14 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...15 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...16 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...16 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 ...16 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...16 years ago
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REVIT SYMBOLS :: COALESSE_10 FURNITURE LINES - 09.03.10 AKIRA + AWAIT + E-TABLE + EMU + HOST + JOEL + KART + SIDEWALK + TOPO + TRAIN >> by: Coalesse ""THEY'VE DONE IT AGAIN! EXCITING NEWS!_W...16 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...16 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...17 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...17 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...18 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.18 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 ...18 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...19 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 ...20 years ago
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