The week that was in the world of BIM – for the week of February 7th, 2016 – February 13th, 2016.
Lets start this weeks Roundup off with a post with a post about a segment of the market that doesn’t receive enough BIM (or app) love, check it out over at the ConAppGuru Blog.
Top Apps in 2016 for Residential Contractors
Here are a couple more post from the Guru (ConAppGuru that is).
The ConTechTrio Podcast Episode #1.2
The Guru’s Gathering: A Collection of Blogs for Construction Feb. 12, 2016
Now its time to take a listen to this weeks AEC and BIM Podcast.
Episode 029 – Grimshaw (Designalyze Podcast)
Episode 41 – Joe wears (The Architech Show)
Episode 1.3 – Construction Tech News, BIM Interoperability & Interview with @flux_io CEO Nick Chim (ConTechTrio Podcast)
Don’t forget to signup the next FormIt Friday…..it’s FormIt Friday the 13th. (FormIt 360 Blog).
FormIt Friday! Episode 13! with Mike Engel
It been a while, but David Light is back blogging, check his latest posts on the Revit blog.
AEC Magazines’ review of AU2015
What’s new in the world of RTC, lets find out over at the RTC New Blog.
The Building Content Summit is Coming to Europe in 2016
Dropping Dynamo Knowledge in Singapore
RTCAUS 2016 – How are You Getting There?
Building Content Summit North America- Whats in a Name?
Time to talk about Revit Add-ons, so lets see what Tim has for us this week.
Roundup – New and Updated Revit Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store for the Week of January 24, 2016
Roundup – New and Updated Revit Add-ins on the Autodesk App Store for the Week of January 31, 2016
Here is an interesting tool for those that use Revit Parameters (so basically everyone that uses Revit), find out more at RevitNetAddinWizard
For those that are tasked with comparing models in your office, here are a couple of posts for you, from Revittize.
It’s In the Model “Collaboration for Revit”
Most people that work with Autodesk software heard the news last week about them letting 10% of their staff go, if you didn’t check out this post from REVIT Structure Learning Curve with all (okay maybe not all) of the details.
Autodesk 10% reduction in staff
This next post from All things Revit, Dynamo, and Python, reminds us that don’t need Revit in your workflow to use Dynamo.
Dynamo Data Pushing: BCFzip to Excel
If you are still in the fence about diving into the Dynamo pool, check out this hour long free Webinar from ArchSmarter.
Getting Started With Dynamo – Webinar Recording
We are rolling with the Dynamo posts, so lets keep rolling, this time from archi+lab.
automating curtain wall documentation with dynamo
We can’t talk about Dynamo with out share the fun you can have with it, check out this post from sixtysecondrevit.
Having Fun with #DynamoBIM Customizer
Now lets use Dynamo to remove some of our Revit warnings! (Daniel and Autodesk AEC software)
If you are going to be in Vancouver nest week to attend the CanBIM event, you should check out the BIM freaks post, about what she will be doing for it.
CanBIM Vancouver February 16th-17th 2016
Time for a tutorial, a Revit family tutorial from the Revit Kid.
Revit Tutorial – Parametric pendant Light (Start to Finish)
Do you have tiny windows in your Revit, if you do (or don’t know what I’m talking about) then check out this post from RVIT.
Tiny Windows and Graphics Cards
I thought the idea behind this post was pretty cool, as I had never really thought about a see-thru window in an elevation (Ideate Blog)
Did You Know That Revit Windows Can Have Transparent Glass In Elevation Views?
Now for some central knowledge…..or is that knowledge about centralizing? Find out which one it is in this post from the AUGI Library.
Internally Re-Centralizing (Sent and Received) Central Models
It seems Autodesk has come out with a new portal (website) dedicated to the CAD Manager (Shouldn’t that be BIM Manager?), learn more at the Synergis blog.
AUTODESK INTRODUCES CAD MANAGER CENTER
Check out this post from It’s Alive in the Lab about the updated Dynamo plug-in for Robot.
Lets go check out all the BIM goodness from What Revit Wants this week.
Get a Free replacement AC power cord for your Surface Pro
Moving your Windows Temp folder so that Revit doesn’t Fill Up Your SSD with Temporary Files
Navisworks 2016 Service Pack 4 Direct Download Link
Free Cobie Sample Models for Download from Prairie Sky Consulting and @bondbryanBIM
Better Tekla IFC Export Settings for Revit Coordination
Okay so I will admit that much of this next post is a sales pitch from Autodesk about the new BIM 360 Docs, there are few good nuggets in it. (BIM 360 Blog).
Construction Collaboration Software For The Whole Team
If you are looking for some MEP Revit content, then check out this post from the BIM Toolbox.
Trouble finding Revit MEP Content?
Lets see what’s new over at DynamoNotes this week.
Write to Excel using only Data and File Path Inputs
Prorubim DS Common Kit Node Index
What is Prorubim DS Common Kit?
NavisAttributes.GetNavisAttributesFromNodesList
NavisPropertyList.GetPropertiesList
Create Worksets for Revit Link Filenames
Set Link Instance and Type Worksets by Revit Link Filename
Workflow: Set Revit Links to Individual Worksets in a Federated Model
Wildcard String Search One List in Another List (Faster)
Get Worksets with all Properties
Get Crop Box List from View List
Override Projection Lineweight in View
I will end this weeks Roundup with a few of tweets from the week that I enjoyed.
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