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CAD Shack: Add Structural Steel with Revit MEP

CAD Shack

Thursday, December 24, 2009. The way I got around the above mentioned error was to open a structural model I received from a different engineer on a different job. It shows up fine in my drawing and I can change its length, offset and location. CAD Shack VIPs. CAD Shack Blog Buddies. RobiNZ CAD Blog.

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Revit Beginners: The Project That Almost Could

Revit Beginners

Wednesday, August 19, 2009. We have one model that was started in Revit before we knew any of the limitations of Revit. To add to the complexity, the as-built drawings we had on file were not accurate to the true construction of the existing structure because the original architect had improvised the design during construction.

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Revit Beginners: Revit 2010: New Coordinates Icons

Revit Beginners

Monday, April 20, 2009. you can draw a simple building and link in a simple building (by shared coordinates) and move these two icons around a bit (clipped and unclipped) to see how the two models react or. National CAD Standards. Revit 2010: New Coordinates Icons. here is the simplest way I can put it: 1. David Duarte.

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Revit Beginners: In-place Cavity Walls

Revit Beginners

Some food for thought: Could it (read that as "it will") be better to let the walls be modeled as they will be built (with dead spaces in between), rather than using in-place walls that simply mimic old methodologies, like CAD or Hand drawn lines filled with poche or hatching? I see the same with these types of workarounds.

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Revit Beginners: The Data Manager

Revit Beginners

In an Architectural Record article " Getting on Board with Building Information Modeling " Larry Flynn describes a Data Manager as someone "responsible for coordinating the various computer files and models that are integrated into a BIM." In our office Data Managers are starting to inspect models for proper construction.

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Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

Building information modeling (BIM) is beginning to fundamentally change the building industry in a very positive way. Tom Gay manages worldwide CAD and GIS services, site plan documentation and engineering document management services for The Factory Mutual Insurance Company (FM Global). of BIM (2009) and Green BIM (2010).

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Revit Beginners: The Revit Experiment II

Revit Beginners

This isnt necessarily a bad habit as long as they are using detail lines and not model lines (detail lines are view specific but model lines will show up everywhere). The Revit 3D model is just a place to start. Even advanced users use detail lines, filled regions, and detail components to refine their drawings.

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