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07/01/2016 from Beyond Design Syncing Field Equipment Properties with Revit BIM 360 Field is offering a great way to track data on the building suite using your iPad, e.g. the status and install dates of certain equipment. But what if you want to see this data in Revit? The answer is pretty simple - the new BIM 360 Plugin for Revit gives you a very easy way to sync the equipment properties in Field with your originally shared Revit model: After opening the Revit Model, go to Add-Ins > BIM 360 Equipment Properties and chose the model you want to sync with. In this window you will see all your models available in BIM 360 Glue and you will need to select the one corresponding with your currently open Revit Model. You can recognize the Models with shared Equipment Sets on the orange icon: Once the properties have been synced, you will get the following message: Now that your Field Properties have been added to your Revit Model, you can see them among the object properti...

Over at Beyond Design , they have an interesting blog post on the new COBie tool for Autodesk Navisworks. Even if you don't intend on using Navisworks as part of your COBie delivery process, the post is interesting.

The Beyond Design blog team has posted some interesting Revit to BIM 360 Glue improvements . It's now possible to export from Revit to Glue using a .NWC file rather than a .DWF file.

Building Information Modeling: What’s in a Name? Recently, I participated in the BIMForum in Boston, where the topic about "Design Optimization" drew a record crowd of professional attendees. Early and often, the presenters referenced "BIM" (Building Information Modeling) as a term or concept, with notable attention to the "I" (Information) in BIM as a key point of emphasis in successfully optimizing design. The term Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been around over 20 years, and the concept of representing buildings digitally and spatially has been around about twice as long as that. You might think that a group of professionals dedicated to discussing and advancing BIM would be able to hover around a common definition for the term, or even a common term itself. Yet, there was more than enough perversion and variation of the term BIM to suit any number of viewpoints: painfully-redundant "BIM Models," not-quite-synonymou...

This is a really good post from Beyond Design . I've been traveling around a lot in the last year and met a huge number of you guys and girls at various events, we chat a lot about workflows, features of the program and how you first came to use it. However even now I find it surprising that I can show something new to even expert users that help with their day to day work. So in typical Buzzfeed style, here are 14 things you'll be shocked to know you can do with Autodesk Navisworks!!!! Forget 3D, 4D, 5D 6 and 7D, did you know there's 2D support in Navisworks? It still shocks me that people don't know about this, so I'll shout it:- NAVISWORKS HAS 2D SUPPORT!!! Now why is that important? Viewing a 3D file is great! It's revolutionised the way people work and coordinate with each other! However in the majority of cases, the main deliverable to the construction team on site is a set of 2D drawings, they provide additional detail you can't always ge...

From Beyond Design How to resolve coordination issues with BIM 360 Glue Some people working with or implementing BIM 360 Glue ask us about best practice for managing clashes with BIM 360 Glue. Ultimately the goal is not to manage clashes but to resolve the issues causing these. Have this in mind when working through the process outline below, as it focuses not on individual objects clashing but about issues. For example, a single duct in the wrong location can cause 100 or more clashes. 100 clashes, but really just a single issue. And issues are what your design teams need to focus on for resolution. So here's how you do that with BIM 360 Glue. Start by running your clash analysis. Use the visual heatmap to identify problematic areas in your model (here's a quick video of how this works). Did you know you can get a quick metric using the 'Overview' link of all clashes? It also lets you drill down further using the automatic grouping of clashes based on...

From Beyond Design BIM 360 Glue – Easy, Accessible Reviews for the Extended Project Team Today sees the launch of the BIM 360 Glue Reviewer role, which provides simplified web and mobile access for everyone on the project team to participate in connected project review workflows. With the addition of the Reviewer role, BIM 360 Glue project admins can invite project stakeholders and occasional users not experienced with BIM to participate in collaborative project review workflows anytime, anywhere. And reviewers like owners or project executives with no hands-on BIM experience can easily go directly to a specific model view. The reviewer is not exposed to the coordination environment and can't get confused by multiple versions of the model. So, how does this work? The Reviewer role provides an easy way for the project admin to provide the appropriate level of controlled access and the right information to the right person at the right time. Once a BIM 360 Gl...

From Beyond Design Invitation to our beta program for Navisworks Ivanov We'd like to invite our Navisworks users to our Ivanov beta program. This is great chance to get early access to our next software release, understand how the new features can benefit your workflows and provide us with input, feedback and suggestions for improvement. If you are interested in participation then please sign up using the link below with a valid  work   email address (i.e. not Gmail, Yahoo etc.) and complete a short survey. All feedback and software downloads will be handled through the Autodesk Feedback Community website. The Navisworks Ivanov Beta Team will closely monitor this beta community for questions and reported problems. Your feedback is greatly appreciated and is essential in helping us to make a better product. Thank you for your support, and we look forward to hearing from you! Sign me up now to the Navisworks Ivanov Beta program!

From Beyond Design You've heard my friend, Pete Billante talk about the cool features in Autodesk® BIM 360™ Field for the iPAD and how they've helped thousands of construction project managers, superintendents, and field engineers to manage quality, safety, and commissioning processes. Now, it is time for you to see the power of BIM 360 Field first-hand. I'm excited to announce that Autodesk is kicking off a five-city roadshow (in the United States) on BIM 360 Field! The roadshow runs from September 17 to October 17. The first event is in my city (San Francisco) and is taking place in the Autodesk Gallery . By attending one of the events, you will gain a better understanding of how BIM 360   Field enables you to combine mobile technologies at the point of construction while supporting 2D and 3D workflows . During the three hour event, you will learn how mobile devices and cloud-based services are transforming the construction industry and how you work every...