BIM Crusader Turned AECO Tech Explorer | Speaker | Autodesk Expert Elite | 25+ years in AECO | Technical Success Manager at Newforma. Opinions expressed are my own unless I borrowed them. Cover photo by: Devin Henry
Please join us for an informative and lively evening with presentations by distinguished industry speakers. This event is designed to keep you informed of the recent developments in innovation of the design and construction industry. This is also a great opportunity to network with other professionals in the architectural, engineering and construction industries.
Who should attend? Engineers, Architects, Developers, Contractors, Consultants and Construction Industry Professionals
This is a good read from Construction App Guru, if you are thinking about moving towards have ipads or other mobile devices in your office and part of your workflow.
How to get precise placement of your Revit selections. This post form IMAGINiT tries to help with Revit’s inability to snap or manually align annotation objects.
Do you like Rhino? Do you like Dynamo? Well why not try Rhynamo then! Hop on over the Nathan Miller’s Blog The Proving Ground and check out his post, you can even sign up to try the Rhynamo by applying for the Private Beta.
If you are in Construction and you enjoy the Apps and things Techie then you should check out Rob McKinney’s post over on Construction App Guru on his wrap up of the AGC Tech Forum.
Here is a little something for you Revit Structure people out there, how to attached structural objects together courtesy of the Autodesk Revit Structure Blog
If you are going to be in the Calgary area on Wednesday September 17th between 6:00 pm and 8:00 pm you should attend the cBIMc meeting, it’s FREE!
Share your experiences and challenges and learn what
others are doing
We invite Calgary area Architects, Engineers, Contractors and Owners/Operators to join us as we attempt to gage the health of BIM use. This facilitated discussion event is intended to provide the Calgary BIM Community an opportunity to share how and to what degree BIM is used by various stakeholders in the Calgary marketplace.
Join us as this open feedback session attempts to explore:
How BIM is used in Calgary
Who is invested in BIM
What is preventing others from engaging
What are the advantages of BIM
How are firms collaborating
How is BIM being managed
Why is BIM used
How is BIM used
Who should be driving BIM
You can register at the cBIMc website, or by following the link below
If you are still on the fence about going its time to get off the fence and hop to it, as all the good classes with fill quickly. If you are having trouble getting your manager to see the value in you going, why not let Lynn Allen help you with her Convince Your Manager Tool Kit.
Now for the shameless self plug:
If you are looking for a class on the first day, (Tuesday Dec. 2nd) something that’s not to heavy and will let your brain rest a little have a hard first day of learning, then I have the class for you.
AC6640 – 60 Minutes, 30 Apps, 4 Categories, 2 Much FunThis class is designed to provide a little fun as we explore some of the apps and add-ins that are out there for Autodesk, Inc., software. While the general flow of this class will be fun, you’ll discover some helpful apps that can increase your productivity as well. The class will cover 30 different apps, which fit into 4 different categories during this 60-minute class. The 4 categories will be: mobile, production, add-ins, and fun.
The class is on Tuesday Dec. 2nd from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm, and the word on the street is that I may even have some SWAG to give away (more on that to come later).
A new (to me) blog I found about construction apps called Construction App Guru had a good post about Google Drive for Construction (or Business in general).
Have you heard about BIM scope creep? Well you can find out more over at BIM ThinkSpace in a post by guest author Rexter Retana on his viewpoint on the matter.
For those of you out there than enjoy a bit of coding or API work here is a good post (and video) about getting linked file data without opening the Revit File. This is brought to you by the friendly folks over at Boost Your BIM
Can you Survive Without BIM? This is a question Jarod Schultz thinks about on his blog called Jarod Schultz, he also provides a couple links to some good BIM Business data.
If you do much training for the AEC space especially on the GC end you will be interested in the next Blog post form Ascent about whats new in the 2015 Navisworks Essentials training guide.
I know some of you out there might be doing your best to remove SketchUp from your designers toolbox, but trust me that’s easier said than done (however now that Trimble keeps raising the cost you might be getting some help). This video that I found on CADZulu might help you at least get “The Smarts” from the SketchUp model into your BIM workflow
Another post popped up today (Aug. 22nd) on Inside the Factory about “Sundial” the Revit beta. This time they talk about the new search box that can be found in the Type Selector.
I know this is an older video, and I’ve shared it before on Twitter……….but somethings just need to be shared again and again. You should also check out James Vandezande’s Blog All Things BIM
Please join us for an informative and lively evening with presentations by distinguished industry speakers. This event is designed to keep you informed of the recent developments in innovation of the design and construction industry. This is also a great opportunity to network with other professionals in the architectural, engineering and construction industries.
Who should attend? Engineers, Architects, Developers, Contractors, Consultants and Construction Industry Professionals
I found out about this event on the Revit Jedi blog, if you follow the link below it will take you to the proper location for registration
This is a post by What Revit Wants, about a tool in the Revit Extension pack that allows you to add shared parameters to families automatically. There is also a tip of the hat to Ideate Solutions for writing the Blog post that reminded What Revit Wants about this tool in the first place.
Jeff over at The Revit Kid put up this post about Autodesk FormIt, which was cool because in his post he links to new to me Blog by Jarod Schultz who goes more in-depth with all that is FormIt.
Here is a good post with from IMAGINiT Building Solutions Blog with a work around for getting your view titles rotated 90 degrees to match your rotated view.
Another post from What Revit Wants, but this time its about Navisworks and BIM 360 Glue. We learn a not so simple work around (or two) to get a Navisworks Viewpoint into BIM 360 Glue.
I’ve been hearing about about Advanced Steel from Autodesk these days around the office, so when I found this video on the Navisworks Facebook page I thought it was worth a look.
I will end this weeks round-up with a link to a cool contest from IMAGINiT where you can win a MakerBot Replicator Mini 3D Printer just by submitting your best rendering
The week that was in the world of BIM and other Techie fun stuff, for the week of Aug. 3rd – Aug. 9th.
I’m excited the have found out this week that one of my favourite Blogs is back this week after a 2 year hiatus, join me in welcoming back Inside the Factory. You can read about what they are doing with the updated site on there first new post listed below
Steve over at Revit OpEd goes into a little more detail about what or why Inside the factory is back so they can showcase the new Revit Preview called Sundial
This is an interesting idea, but the production staff might think it is just another way for “Big Brother” to spy on them. However from a BIM management perspective i can see it being a useful tool to all to your BIM tool box. This info comes from the What Revit Wants blog, who is sharing it from a new to me blog called BIM 42
If you follow Boost your BIM you might have seen this post already on an API approach to removing unwanted viewport types that purge all just won’t remove.
This is a good post from Cn3D Construction about how to colour your Navisworks model they way you need it for Construction collaboration, aka with simple colours not textures or materials.
If you are going to be in the Vancouver area next Tuesday, Aug. 12th you should think about checking this event out.
It will be held in Kasian’s office located at 1500 West Georgia Street, Suite 1685, and starts at 6:30 pm
There will be 2 speakers:
BIM and IPD: What is Integrated Project Delivery
Michael Horta
Architectural BIM Consultants
and
Virtual Reality and the Construction Industry
Shane Scranton
CEO, IrisVR
I worked with Micheal Horta for a few years back when I worked at Kasian and he really knows his stuff!
Here is a description of what the series is all about direct from the Scott’s blog:
“The “Improving the Process of Delivering Projects” series is designed to stimulate discussion on improving the project delivery process. Sessions are designed for members of the AEC industry who would like to see a more integrated approach to project delivery. These sessions will provide you with tools and skills to enhance your project delivery and collaborate with consultants, your client and the contractor.”
You can find all in the info you need at the post below from Scott’s blog Revit Jedi, as he the one putting this event on.
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