All Things BIM / DC

​While at the BIMForum in Denver, I have seen some pretty amazing uses of prefab and modularization - though I am tired of the health care examples. What really stuck me as interesting is the use of pre-fab for parking garages and stadium that can be dis-assemblemed. Yeah, taken apart and moved. Click here to check out the video.

From Between the Lines We are rapidly approaching the big pre-release alpha and beta season for Autodesk . There are already a couple Autodesk products in testing now and you can sign up to participate by registering at http://beta.autodesk.com . By joining almost 70,000 Autodesk customer that participate in hundreds of pre-release feedback projects every year you will improve the quality of the products and you become a vital extended member of the product teams and help us shape the direction of the products you use, or future products and solutions you may need.  The Autodesk SketchBook Pro team has a beta in progress and you apply and can get more details from the ONLINE APPLICATION

From BIM & BEAM If you are an Autodesk Subscription customer with a seat of either the Premium or Ultimate edition of Building Design Suite, Plant Design Suite, or Infrastructure Design Suite, or a seat of Revit Structure, you get the benefit of using the Structural Analysis for Revit cloud service. Structural Analysis for Revit uses the power of Autodesk 360 to conduct the computationally-heavy task of structural analysis directly from your Revit software but without locking out your system while it processes. The service consumes two cloud credits each time you use it. In case you are still learning about Autodesk’s cloud credits, each seat of Subscription on one of the software packages outlined above gets 100 cloud credits per year and if you run out of allocated cloud credits they are available for purchase for 100USD for 100. You can find out more about cloud credits and metered usage here . The service is powered by the industry leading Autodesk Robot Structura...

BIM Aficionado: Revit to CAD - Nothing to Fear : We are well on our way to our goal of 50% DD on our new 'GA Apartment' BIM project, with a well developed model, fifty sheets set u...

This hotfix improves product stability when placing Spot Elevations within Section Views. Make sure that Update Release 3 has been applied prior to adding the hotfix. Verify that the build number of Revit 2013 is 20130531_2115. The Readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and use of this update. It is strongly recommended that you read the entire document before you apply the update to your product. For your reference, you should save the Readme to your hard drive or print a copy. Revit2013_SpotElev_Hotfix.zip (zip - 14553Kb) Readme (htm - 81Kb)

Repost from The Revit Blog Can't see it in the view? Here's 33 reasons *maybe* why Seems like finding missing items in Revit is a day to day condundrum. I have a routine of things to run through but I had never made a list before. This one was sent over to me by a colleage the other day and is Courtesy of Dave Jones' post over at www.revitforum.org   Highly recommend printing it out or sending it to everyone in your company. Can't see it in the view? Here's 33  36 reasons maybe why I found this somewhere online back when I started using Revit and still find it useful. Hope someone else can use it also. Checklist: 33 steps to being able to 'find stuff' The object or category is temporarily hidden The object or category is hidden in the view The object is being obscured by another element The object's category or subcategory is hidden in the view The object is outside the view's view range The view's far clip depth is not sufficient to show th...