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Autodesk Publishes Framework to Help AEC Professionals Implement BIM Process

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:16:30 +0000

The Autodesk BIM Deployment Plan is a Free, Web-accessible Resource Offering Tools and Guidance Based on Real-World Practices for more information click here.

Autodesk Shares back on the rise!…

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:54:22 +0000

After almost a year of falling share values it looks like Autodesk shares are back on the rise, although their share price hasn’t yet made it back to the pre-recession heights of over $40 a share i don’t think it’ll take long for that to change…

With Building Information Modeling (BIM) finally taking hold in AEC design firms across the globe and with stats like “…80% of the top 100 AEC firms in the US moving to BIM…” coupled with a noticeable shift to firms wanted to recruit staff with Revit experience, I’m picking we’ll see a return and possibly and increase in the value of Autodesk shares before too long, anyone got any share $$$…

Revit Space families now available to the public

admin — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:28:55 +0000

Revit Space opens up it’s internal Revit family library to the public, for more information check out their website.

RevitCatalog – Revit content (family) catalog

admin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:46:26 +0000

Why?
RevitCatalog.com is the online connection between building products manufacturers and the architects who specify them. RevitCatalog.com is built specifically as a companion to the “Family Automation Revit” (FAR) program—a service of CAD Enhancement, Inc.—which allows architects to receive up-to-date Revit Family (RFA) files directly from the manufacturer for use in daily design inside any of Autodesk’s Revit family of products.

Top Quality Content
The parts you find at RevitCatalog.com are not like other Revit Family sharing sites. Our parts are not user-generated. Instead, we partner with building product manufacturers to create intelligent, stable, and usable Revit Families. What’s more, every part on RevitCatalog.com has been tested and validated by our staff before being published live. Don’t jeopardize your entire project for free content. Check RevitCatalog.com first.

The FAR Manager
In order to download and use parts from RevitCatalog.com, you must use the FAR Manager to import our proprietary transfer format into Revit. The .FAR file format is a tiny file, compressing the complex geometric data of a .RFA file for easy transport and storage.

Just Released – The Excitech Revit Toolkit for Autodesk Revit

admin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:37:18 +0000

The Excitech Revit Toolkit is a new set of utilities developed and published by Excitech to enhance the benefits you get from Revit technology.
The toolkit contains a modular installation utility that makes additional utilities easy to add in and manage. The first tool released is for Coordinate Scheduling.

The FREE Excitech Revit Coordinate Scheduling application is a powerful tool for Revit Architecture, Revit Structure and Revit MEP that will enable users to automatically acquire precise X, Y and Z coordinates from certain Revit objects.

This allows users to more rapidly produce schedules of, for example, piling and services; as well as to publish coordinates for complex geometry across 3D space.

The coordinates are added to the objects element properties which will allow schedules to be generated and tags to be placed.The application has been designed to publish X,Y and Z coordinates to selected object categories and store these within the objects instance properties.

The Revit Coordinate Scheduling tool is currently only available for the Revit 2010 platform and 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows XP and Vista although a 64-bit version is currently in development.

AU 2009 – Las Vegas here i come!…

admin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:26:18 +0000

With 2 sleeps until AU 2009, I am so looking forward to heading back there for another fun filled week of networking, storytelling, laughs, jokes and jut having a great old time in the best ‘party’ capital in the world – Las Vegas!.

This year see’s me speaking on the integration of Revit and 3DS Max in Architectural design offices and I’m very excited that I have got a full class of other industry professionals who are keen to come and hear some of the tips and tricks I’ve learned over the last 16 years in the business – thank you to everyone who’s registered for my class.

All going well the next post I make will be coming “live” from AU 2009.

Take care all

theBIMman.