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I’m onto some rose-coloured BIM issues…and here is a tip for ArchiCAD users as a bonus

DebunkTheBIM

structures rarely made sense to people that happily documented everything in black on white. Still, that has not deterred me to consistently use the colour ‘red’ on my construction models as a warning sign, highlighting that an element is either under-defined or wrongly defined by the design consultants or others in charge of it.

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BIM Objects, Data, and Information – More than a 3D Pretty Picture – Soooo Much More!

Building Information Management

In traditional documentation we would ‘say it once, and in the right place’, however with BIM, we want to ‘author it once, and in the right place, to be able to report it many times’ Figure 1: Appropriate location of information. The specification is part of the project BIM, and objects live in the specification.

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Revit Beginners: Some New Bloggers on the Block

Revit Beginners

I've fortunately been busy lately working on some residential projects but do have a couple of new documents in the works for posting. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Find Consultants. Labels: Bloggers , News. 1 comment: revitflow. Thanks for the referral to my "revitflow" blog! Post a Comment. Newer Post. Older Post.

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DebunkTheBIM: Design managers working in the AEC: specify what.

DebunkTheBIM

In theory the three different types may be equally effective, practice shows, those that ignore the information in favour of ‘just pushing the people’ (or groups of people like consultants, contractors or anyone in the AEC food-chain) end up with the ‘vocal cord’ as their only tool available. Archicad at its best).

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Revit Beginners: The Project That Almost Could

Revit Beginners

The model is not clean enough to develop construction documents so we have passed along that task to another architect. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Find Consultants. David Duarte. at 3:06 PM. Labels: News , Phases , Practice. 1 comment: antman. Thank you for sharing this. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. CAD Digest.

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Revit Beginners: Loading Libraries

Revit Beginners

Load Family and youll notice icons on the left for Desktop, My Documents, My Computer, My Network Places, Imperial Library, Imperial Detail Library, and Training Files. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Find Consultants. Friday, September 22, 2006. Loading Libraries. Load from Library. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation.

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Revit Beginners: Instance Parameters: The Double Agent

Revit Beginners

Some of you may already be aware of it, but I havent seen it documented anywhere so here goes. ArchiCAD vs Revit. Find Consultants. Instance Parameters: The Double Agent. This is going to be particularly helpful to those of you working on large projects. Knowledge Base. Partner Products. Product Activation. Request Manuals.

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