The Meeting of the European Group for Lean Construction will take place in Valencia, Spain, next May
To register, access this page.
A brief review on this book that introduces you to .NET programming to create Revit Add-insThe book is a very packed guide to creating your first Revit Add-ins. It is actually the type of book that is a bit hard to follow, but in a good sense. It does not waste time explaining you basic stuff you would already know (or that you can easily find online) if you want to create Revit Add-Ins. So from the first lines you have to pay attention to what you are reading or you get lost after two pages.
I have not had the time to try the code samples provided but the book (many), but overall it seems to me as a good introduction to the basics of Add-in programming, its logic, language and basic steps. If I had a say on the book editing, I must confess I would have given it a bit of a more refined look and a bit less intense pace, for it seems a bit intense to me, jumping from one example to the next one without much time to assimilate what you are learning.
Book is very affordable, selling for $11.99 at the Publishers Page for the Ebook version. Yo can also buy hard copies of the book at Amazon (links below).
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The last version of the Industry Foundation Classes, IFC4 was oficially released last tuesday, and it is ready for download.
The Release reads:
After over 6 years of development and over 1100 issues being resolved, on 12. March 2013 buildingSMART international has finally released the new generation of IFC schemas - IFC4. It will now be the basis of future work of establishing new open BIM enabled work flows by defining new IFC4 based model view definitions. The official IFC4 release includes both the IFC4 EXPRESS schema to support current STEP-based IFC exchanges, and the ifcXML4 XSD schema to support new simple ifcXML transactions.Detailed documentation on the new IFC4 can be found here.
via BIMnova.
The list has been updated and reformated for a better user experience
Cheers! Here is the link to the table.
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The 2013 National BIM Report about UKs AEC Industry is available online.The good news is that progress continues to be made in BIM adoption. The 2012 survey shows the percentage of the industry actually using BIM has grown to 39%, up from 13% in 2010. (...)(...)BIM adopters can see that BIM is more than just ‘seductive graphics’ and ‘sexy 3D’. They can demonstrate that effective information management leads to business efficiency and profitability.(...)
(...)It will be the cultural and behavioural changes that many will find most difficult, and yet I believe these will prove to be the most important if we are to be successful.(...)
OK, so here you have it, plenty of useful insights. Congratulations to the #UKBBIMCrew involved on this!.
PD: You can also access past years' reports here.
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