The week that was in the world of BIM – for the week of January 24th, 2016 – January 30th, 2016.
Lets start this weeks Roundup off with a post from the Revit Kid on his newly released Video “BIM After Dark Volume 3” this one is all about custom families. (The Revit Kid)
BIM After Dark – Volume 3: We Are Family!
Others are talking about the new BIM After dark V3, check out what Paul Aubin had to say on his blog.
New Video Series by the Revit Kid
This is a cool little screencast from a co-working about creating an entire house using Dynamo and Revit.
Let take a look at a quick tip from RVIT Blog.
Here is another little Revit trick for equally spacing window spaces (distance between windows not the centres) from RVIT.
Looking for some new app to try on the construction site in 2016, head over to the ConAppGuru blog.
Five New Apps for Construction in January 2016
If you have had issues with creating your local file in Revit, check out this post from Phil-osophy in BIM.
There have been a few post of late about the version build of Revit, while this is another, but with a twist (Revit OpEd).
Revit Version Build Update and Service Pack Naming
Some more wisdom from Steve at Revit OpEd.
Revit Extension and the Big Pause
Now lets check out all the RTC news from the week, over at the RTC New Blog.
Who Are You? Who? Who? Who? Who?
BCS2016- Who is “changing the world” in BIM Content? (or: Conversations with other Platform users…)
Record Number of Abstract Submissions for RTC Europe 2016
The great website Revit.News (an Autodesk Revit related news aggregator) is on Twitter and now has apps!
Here is a helpful post if you are just getting into C4R (Collaboration for Revit) from the Microsol Resource Blog.
A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO SETTING UP A360 COLLABORATION FOR REVIT
Now for some fun with plants and Dynamo, from Lauren over at the landarchBIM Blog.
Automatically Place Plantings in Areas
Lets looks at this weeks podcast from the AEC arena.
Episode 39 – Special guest Lauren Schmidt (The Architech Show)
Episode 027 – Gustav Fagerstrom (Designalyze)
ConTechTrio Episode 1 (ConTech Trio)
This next one is an oldie, but if you are using ACAD or Civil 3D it’s still a goodie. (CAD Intentions).
Quit Wasting Time with these 5 Productivity Tricks
Now for some Revit MEP love from the IMAGINiT Building Solutions Blog.
Modelling Revit Pipes at a Vertical 45 Degree Angle
Are you having issues with your ACAD Icon showing up as part of your deployment? The check out this post from the IMAGINiT Support Blog.
AutoCAD: Cannot Create a Custom Icon in my Deployment
Lets see whats new this week over at What Revit Wants.
Decompile and Browse DLL Resources for Free
Now time for a post (and video) about slab detailing in Revit Structure, from BIM & Revit World.
How to use Revit Structure 2016 for slab detailing & arranging viewport
I’m sure if you are an Autodesk customer you have heard about their new license model this month (likely many times) but if you haven’t then you need to read this post from Applying Technology to Architecture.
Autodesk’s New Terminology for Licenses
Now for a great post from Practical BIM (they are all great posts on this site).
Revit and Mac together at last……sorta….with the help of FRAME, learn more in this post from BIM & Revit World.
Autodesk offers official support of Revit for Mac
Here is the weekly gatherings from the ConAppGuru.
The Guru’s Gathering: A Collection of Blogs for Construction Jan. 29, 2016
Here is a helpful list of PDF to DWG tools that are available, check it out over at CAD Panacea.
Tool for converting PDF to DWG
If you are into Dynamo, and you think other in your area are too, then you should start a DUG, find out more in this post from the Dynamo Blog.
Digging the DUG: Dynamo User Groups
Now for a couple of post from John over at sixtysecondrevit.
Retrieve an Element’s space in #Revit with #DynamoBIM
Lets see what was new over at DynamoNodes this week (starting with the name, last week it was called DynamoWorks).
Lunchbox Room Element Collector
Filter Views with Two Criteria and Return Views
Send List to Clipboard as Single Line Breaked String
Use Floors to Make Named 3D Section Box View and Apply Template
Remove List from List by Item not Value
Get Linked Element from Element Id and Doc
Set List of Values to List of Elements for One Parameter
Lets end this weeks Roundup with a “funny” from the gang over at Architexts……because we have all been there!
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