BIM, Fun, Revit, Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup – 2015.35

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The week that was in the world of BIM and other Techie fun stuff –  for the week of Aug. 29th – Sept. 5th, 2015.

I will start this week’s Roundup off with info about the latest release of Dynamo 0.8.2 from the Dynamo Blog.

Ready , Set, Dynamo… 0.8.2

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Weekly Roundup – 2015.34

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The week that was in the world of BIM and other Techie fun stuff –  for the week of Aug. 23rd  – Aug. 29th, 2015.

I will start this week’s Roundup off with a MUST read post form Practical BIM.

Everyday BIM

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Weekly Roundup – 2015.33

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The week that was in the world of BIM and other Techie fun stuff, for the week of Aug. 16th  – Aug. 22nd, 2015.

I will start this weeks Roundup off with an excellent Podcast from BIMThoughts about BIM Project execution plans.

S2E11 BIM Project Execution plan Part 2  (Part 1)

To go along with the above podcast (both parts) the folks over at BIMThoughts have added a “BIM Project Execution Plan” tab on their website as a live document of what would should go into a BIM pxp.

BIM PROJECT EXECUTION PLAN

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RTC Roundup – North America 2015 Edition – The BIMsiders Classes

For those of you that attended RTCNA 2015 in DC and missed my classes, or couldn’t make it to RTCNA 2015 this year at all, below are the outlines of my classes as well as the handouts.

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Weekly Roundup – Special Edition – RTC North America 2015

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Another RTC North America has come and gone, and as per usual it was a blur!

This years event was “Somewhere near DC” as the name tags said, which was actually Arlington, Virginia just outside of Washington DC.

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RTC Roundup – North America 2015 Edition – Top 10 Tweets

One of the things I love about RTC events is the community, and their love of Twitter. Even if you are’t at the event you feel like you’re there because of the play-by-play you get on Twitter. In honor of this I have put together my Top 10 Tweets and Twitter Threads from RTCNA 2015.

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Add-ins, Autodesk, BIM, Revit, Revit 2016, Subscription, Updates

Batch Print, eTransmit, Model Review, & BD Link now available – Still no Workshaing Monitor

It has been a long time coming, but today Autodesk released 4 more of their subscription add-ins for Revit 2016. these where released via the Autodesk Exchange Apps Store. In the pasted you could find them as part of your Autodesk Subscription Site (now your Autodesk Account).

Here are the direct links to the Add-ins on the Exchange Apps site:

There is still one missing:

  • Worksharing Monitor

Hopefully the Worksharing Monitor will be out soon.

Update Aug. 19th:

Worksharing Monitor 2016 now available

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Where are my Revit 2016 Subscription Add-ins?

So like many of you out there in Internet land I’ve been looking for, and waiting for some of the 2016 versions of the Revit Subscription Add-ins I’ve come accustom to getting every year when the new version comes out.

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Architectural, BIM, Revit, Revit Roofs, Tips & Tricks

How to show a roof overhang in a plan view with Revit

This is a re-post of a Blog I did for work, which is posted on the IMAGINiT Building Solutions Blog here.

In residential architecture, as well as other types, it is often a required part of the working drawing set to be able to show the roof overhang as a hidden line on the floor plan views. Out of the box, Revit doesn’t do this because Revit shows it as it’s built. Some may call this WYSIWYG or, what you see is what you get. Meaning that in the real world we don’t see a dashed lines on the ground so we know there is a roof above. To get Revit to do this there is a simple work around that I have outlined below.

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Vegas, Baby! Vegas!

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The AU 2015 acceptance emails came out this week, and I was lucky enough to get one again this year! This will cap off a busy year of Speaking for me with 2 classes at RTCNA 2015 in July, 2 Classes and RTCEUR 2015 in October, and then one more at AU 2015 in December.

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