Introduction to the new features of Revit 2014
How to insert on your page an embedded and editable Google Drive / Docs Spreadsheet
So now that you know that it works, let's go step by step.
If you need any help, ask in the comments below.
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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A living list of the latest BIM standards available online. A list that will be updated regularyUPDATE: I have turned the list into a table that can be sorted clicking on the headers. THis way it is easy to sort the standards by country,or date or name, etc.
Credits for some Standards I didn't have in the original post go to:
Credits for the HTML and Javascript to create the sortable table all thanks to Expression Web-LDo you know of any more BIM Standards? Share please!
Audoesk seems to be suing Revitforum. Don't they have any sense of bad online campaings?Dear revitforum.org members, colleagues and friends,
Our apologies for the mass email - we try to avoid these as much as possible, but we feel it's very important that we share this news with all of our members as soon as possible.
As some of you may be aware, Autodesk, Inc., makers of Revit, have retained the law firm of Donahue Gallagher Woods to notify all domain holders that have the word REVIT contained in their top-level domain name, that they are infringing on the Autodesk REVIT trademark. They have requested that we change the domain name of revitforum.org to one that doesn't contain the the word REVIT.
We refute these claims of infringement. The use of the trademark "REVIT" in the domain name "revitforum.org" is protected by the "Nominative Fair Use" legal doctrine that provides an affirmative defense to trademark infringement as enunciated by the United States Ninth Circuit, by which a person may use the trademark of another as reference to describe the product.
The administrators of revitforum.org will formally respond to Autodesk. However, if all else fails, we want to assure you that we are prepared to move revitforum.org to a new domain if that is required.
Whether or not there is a domain name change, rest assured that the forums will continue to operate just as they do now. We retain all the data on revitforum.org - that is not in any way at risk.
We will notify you via email and on the revitforum.org website of any required domain name change ahead of time.
Also, keep updated, and feel free to comment in this thread: http://www.revitforum.org/out-there/12753-revitforum-org- domain.html
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A lot of fuzz about Foster's plans to print buildings on the moon, but shouldn't we work harder to develop something like this on earth?
Why this is not being used already in real buildings if it is cheaper, faster, stronger and allows all kind of shapes like the inventors claim? No idea, something might still not be 100% proof ready, but anyways its an interesting experiment.
Related to this, I remembered a video I saw some months ago about a research going on at a research group at the University of Southern California. The research is called Contour Crafting, and it aims to something very similar, to be able to sort of print parts of the building and to actually use a sort of huge crane to automate construction. Here is a video about it.
This research from USC, although it has some points I think they need rethinking, seems more developed than the "print on the moon" experiment. It is based on using some standard construction procedures combined with the automation of a big part of the construction of the structure. Is this the (near?) future?So let's think about it, printing on the moon when we don't know exactly how to do it on earth seems a bit of a far shot, but these too experiments show a trend that I think will slowly evolve and that has huge repercussion, the slow replacement of construction man-labor by machine automated work. Let's review in a couple of years how much of this is actually on the real world!
A new add-in to manage your families in revit. And it is free.
The purpose of this tool is to directly load families from one Revit project to another i.e., this tool enables the users to easily look in to the views, types, parameters of the families in a Revit project file and directly load the selected families in to the current Revit project or save them as ‘rfa’ files in the given PC path.So now it is easy to transfer families from project to project knowing exactly what you are transferring. Excellent.
Without this add in, you can transfer families from one project to another using the Transfer Project Standards tool in revit. But then you would be transfering without so much control of which families you actually copy, so this add-in is worth it.
To install it, download the add-in from here, then run the installer.
Via What Revit Wants
Did you delete an object by mistake and kept workin? OOPS! No worries, you can have it back!The OOPS command in AutoCAD will bring back the last deleted object, even after you kept working and doing more stuff. It has its limitations as you can imagine (for instance if during that "kept workin" you deleted something else) but still can save you from having to redo stuff.
This and more good stuff via How to undo almost anything in AutoCAD by Ellen Finkelstein
