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Revit Beginners: Journal of Building Information Modeling

Revit Beginners

Journal of Building Information Modeling. Read what some of the industry experts have to say about BIM in the relatively new Journal of Building Information Modeling. GSA BIM Resource. ArchiCAD vs Revit. CadPlan Resource List. Journal of Building Information Modeling. Monday, September 15, 2008. at 3:27 PM.

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Revit Beginners: Editable Worksets and Workset Ownership

Revit Beginners

Lets say you have a project with worksets enabled and the whole model is on Workset 1 by default. No one else is going to be able to edit ANY modeled elements that are on that workset. or do a save to central and relenquish user-created worksets so other users can work on the model too. GSA BIM Resource. Customer Council.

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Revit Beginners: Phases & Worksets

Revit Beginners

Always Be Phase Aware In every project file your modeled components have a phase created and a phase demolished parameter whether you like it or not. If you place a model component in a view that is set to the New Construction phase (under View Properties), that component automatically gets placed in the New Construction phase.

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Revit Beginners: Using Radar

Revit Beginners

You just linked a developed Revit model into a new project file and you cant seem to find it. If I just imported a project and I cant seem to locate the imported model the first thing I do is setup my radar. Open each view individually and zoom all (ZA) until you find the model you are looking for. GSA BIM Resource.

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Revit Beginners: The Project That Almost Could

Revit Beginners

We have one model that was started in Revit before we knew any of the limitations of Revit. The model is not clean enough to develop construction documents so we have passed along that task to another architect. GSA BIM Resource. ArchiCAD vs Revit. CadPlan Resource List. David Duarte. at 3:06 PM. 1 comment: antman.

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Revit Beginners: When is a Family Parametric?

Revit Beginners

Having built a few parametric families, here is my experience: The dimensions that are variable or can flex need to be modeled before any actual geometry. GSA BIM Resource. ArchiCAD vs Revit. CadPlan Resource List. Labels: Dimensions , Families , Parameters , Practice , Schedules. 1 comment: Aaron Ellsworth. CAD Digest.

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Yeah But

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In my travels working as a consultant I've been part of more than a few conversations debating using Revit or even the broader notion of BIM (Building Information Modelling). Consider that Archicad would love it if we all woke up tomorrow and gave them credit for doing it all years earlier. Any reply that starts with "Yeah, but."

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