BIMForum - Call for Speakers and Spnsors

The BIMForum is not accepting proposals for the Fall BIMForum conference, October 17-19, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.



The Fall BIMForum will explore best practices in professional coordination from Architects, Engineers, Builders and Owners. We encourage proposals to thoughtfully consider how project stakeholders have addressed the following:

Establishing a collaborative environment
Organizing the coordination process
Conducting truly effective coordination meetings
Measuring the real-world results of professional coordination
Owners’ engagement in the coordination process
Design Assist and its impact on coordination
Handoff from design coordination to construction
Use of LOD (Levels of Development)

Submission Deadline: Friday, July 1, 2016 at 5:00pm EST
To submit, click here.

BIMFix Blog: Model Progression Specifications – Resources

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Revit OpEd: Revit 2017 - Calculated Values in Tags

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Evacuation Path Analysis with Dynamo and Revit

Report from BIM Toolbox

04/22/2016

Evacuation Path Analysis with Dynamo and Revit

More and more we face challenges to find new ways to perform custom architectural analysis. In this post I want to share with you a short and simple (for once) Dynamo script that can be used to analyze the evacuation paths in your building design in Revit. The script (that you can download at the bottom of this post) will calculate the accumulated distance from several points to a selected emergency exit and display the results in a selected Revit view.


A detailed explanation and full script and dataset can be found on this link.
Dieter Vermeulen

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Combining the Power of ITO with a Model Comparison Check

From the Solibri blog.

In addition to using the Model Comparison Ruleset to compare model versions, this article defines the steps to create an Information Takeoff (ITO) that displays the changes in Quantities in the ITO table format. This allows for easy review of any changes in the model quantities, in real-time.

A model recreating the screenshots and model conditions in this article is available here: SMC Building – ITO Model Comparision.smc

For tutorial information about using the ITO tool, please see our previous article on the topic:  Understanding Information Takeoff (ITO)

In Solibri Model Checker, with two different IFC versions of the same model loaded, create an ITO sorting the model by Components. ITO sorts elements within the model by the values of their properties of the left most columns.

Now, create an ITO column for the “Model” property of the “Identification” column type and ensure that “Grouping” is checked.  By doing this, ITO will create an individual row for each type of component in each model.  In other words, one type of component will be listed twice: one row representing the component(s) in Model A, and a second row representing the component(s) in Model B.



Next, decide which quantities are relevant for the comparison.  In this example, we have added columns for length, width, height, area, volume, and count.  For each column, ensure that “Grouping” is turned OFF, and the function is set to “SUM”.  This means that ITO will not use these columns as a sorted grouping mechanism and that the quantity displayed in the column will be a sum for the components.



The resulting ITO will resemble the results below.  Each Component type is listed on two rows, representing the components and their quantities from each of the respective two model versions.



Please use the example model to explore the screenshots from this article, and to experiment with the settings in ITO.

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New COBie for Navisworks tool now available

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Model Checking - What Tools Do You Use?

Working on updating my Modeling checking presentation for RTC EU. There are a lot of good model checking tools on the market including but not limited to:

• Autodesk Revit Model Review
• Autodesk Model Checker for Revit
• BIMAssure
• Assemble Systems Insight
• Solibri

I am interested in hearing about other tools that people might be using for model checking in addition to those listed above.

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BIM in the Field

I have been looking for cost effective ways to bring BIM to the field wondering what options other people have found.

I have used Glue in the past, but it's very expensive. While I have not used it, I do have some colleagues that are using the MS Surface successfully. But I don't own a surface and not very many of those on the jobsite.

What have you used and what are the pros and cons?