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CAD Shack: MEP Annotation Symbols vs. 3D Architectural Families

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MEP Annotation Symbols vs. 3D Architectural Families. Have you ever plotted and found something like the image below where an architectural object is some how thinking it is more important the your MEP object? Put those pesky architectural objects in there place quickly by making them transparent in Visibility Graphics.

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CAD Shack: BIM Lawsuit goes after MEP Firm

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BIM Lawsuit goes after MEP Firm. I came across this article recently in Architectural Record regarding a lawsuit in which the contractor used BIM against the design team and won. Labels: BIM. I am the BIM Manager for Alvine Engineering, a college instructor and the Revit MEP Content Manager for AUGIWorld Magazine.

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CAD Shack: Working With Architectural Title Blocks

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Working With Architectural Title Blocks. This may be cheating, but check out this post I just did for Club Revit on dealing with architectural title blocks and their shared parameters. I am the BIM Manager for Alvine Engineering, a college instructor and the Revit MEP Content Manager for AUGIWorld Magazine. BIM Board of Omaha.

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CAD Shack: Central States Revit Workshop 2012 - Registration is.

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America where Nebraska and Iowa meet. Sponsored by CSI Nebraska and RUGON - Revit User Group of Nebraska , it is scheduled for Friday, September 21 st and Saturday, September. There will be 3 tracks of sessions according to "Flavor" of Revit - Architectural, MEP, and Structural. IFC-BIM Exchange Forum. BIM Manager.

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CAD Shack: AEI-Ashrae Expo - Call for Speakers

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On March 7, the Architectural Engineering Institute (AEI) and the American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineering (ASHRAE) Nebraska Chapters are sponsoring first one day Expo and Technical Conference for professionals involved in the building industry. IFC-BIM Exchange Forum. BIM Board of Omaha.

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CAD Shack: How to use Space Tags Instead of Linked Room Tags

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In the past I have used linked architectural views in Revit MEP to show room names, numbers and door tags. Currently the room tags are reading information from the room object in the linked architectural model and I link that view. The space object in the MEP model linkst to the room object in the architectural model.

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CAD Shack: Unassigned Linked Rooms

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A few weeks ago we noticed that we had a linked architectural model with named and numbered rooms. We changed the linked architectural files volume computations to "Areas Only" instead of "Areas and Volumes". I am the BIM Manager for Alvine Engineering, a college instructor and the Revit MEP Content Manager for AUGIWorld Magazine.

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