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Davis Consulting Services offers a wide variety of BIM/VDC services, including modeling. Our US based team has extensive Bentley and Autodesk modeling experience in: Architectural Structural Mechanical Electrical Plumbing Fire Protection Civil; The key difference between Davis Consulting Services and our competition: 100% US based project team Our staff has industry and field expertise (they are not CAD operators) Fixed pricing Our team consists of architects, engineers, and other highly skilled professionals who can design and model BIMs from scratch or convert 2D drawings into 3D models. Davis Consulting Service saves time and money by virtually assembling a building before construction actually begins. According to required BIM output and LOD, we can create simple models that generate Clash Detection reports ;  further, more complex models can produce Quantity Take-Offs ,  Shop Drawings, or 6D Facility Management. The advantages of Davis Consulting Services include: To further a

In my last Model Checking post, I covered using the CADD Microsystems Revit Model Checker to search for duplicate elements. Autodesk has their own Model Checker which can be downloaded from the app store. It seemed to disappear for awhile (maybe I wasn't looking hard enough), but it's back for 2016 and I hope Autodesk puts the previous versions back up. I really like the Autodesk tool. It's simple, yet provides a great deal of flexibility for checking models. Within a couple hours, you can create an entire checkset for a project. The Model Review also has a API that allows you to create custom checks. The only disappointment that I have with the product is related to workset checking. There is not a way to check for specific worksets easily, due to the way Revit stores workset values. I'll cover this in a future post. I'm going to walk thru the process of creating a rule in Autodesk's Revit Model Checker for checking for duplicate elements. The Autodesk Revit Mo

Before I get started, I want to point out that everything I am about to show can be done in Revit. You can make the same views and schedules I am going to show in Assemble System’s Insight in Revit. Ideally that is where the work should be done. But not every member of the project team may have access to Revit or even know how to use Revit. So having someone with limited experience play in the model can be a little scary. I like using Assemble for these types of tasks because the software is very easy to use and it allows project stakeholders that might not be proficient in Revit the ability to consume BIM data, as they need it. If you are not familiar with Assemble, it is a cloud base data management tool that runs thru a browser. The tool basically allows you very easy access to model data and geometry without having to open Revit. You can also edit property data in Assemble and push the changes back to Revit. So when I am using the Assemble for Model Checking, the focus is on the da

Due to time constraints at my AUx Dubai presentation, we ran out of time and I wasn't able to cover all the functionality of each tool, including Assemble Systems model checking functionality. The video below covers the model checking functionality that Assemble Systems can assist with that I was not able to cover in the presentation.

I am a big fan of model checking. It's one of our core services at Davis Consulting Services . A new tool that is in development for model checking is from Invicara and it is called BIM Assure . It's currently in development, but from what I have been able to play with, it shows a great deal of promise. If you get a chance, I would recommend that you take a look.

I want to thank everyone that attended my Advanced Model Checking class at AUx Dubai. The presentation can be found at our company website: http://davisconsultingservicesllc.com/index.html

I don't know if anyone noticed, but the Revit Architecture 2016 Certification test was a lot harder and took longer to take this year. The good news though, is that the wait times for Certification at Autodesk University 2015 were a lot shorter this year. No re-takes and being open on Monday really helped.