An exclusive online BIM Event on BIM for manufacturer

Initially the impact of BIM can be found for construction industry but gradually the application of BIM has been extended to several manufacturing and other sectors.

In order to place them ahead of competition, various manufacturers are looking for BIM (Revit Model) data.

Adris MicroCAD is presenting an online webinar that focus on how BIM can provide huge benefits to manufacturing industries.

There is no specific schedule date for the webinar. Register your seat online and the organizer will contact you when a date will be available.

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ASCON Group launched KOMPAS-3D v15 for advanced parametric 3d modeling

ASCON Group, the leading solution provider in high-performance CAD/AEC/PLM software systems, just launched the most updated version of KOMPAS-3D Home alias KOMPAS-3D v15. The part-time designers, hobby designers, hobby engineers as well as full-time students can use this parametric software for non-commercial purpose.

KOMPAS-3D Home is an easy to use 3D modeling application that facilitates the users to 3D models parametrically. Parametric technology is supported with a single prototype and can create a wide array of products instantly.

KOMPAS-3D Home contains some useful functions which can generate precise plans, concise diagrams, documented reports as well as vector-based illustrations output in PDF format. There is drawing editor incorporated with it which offers diversified design disciplines through adjustable and automatic work processes.

The innovative KOMPAS-ABC learning system comprising several instances of 3D models, 2D drawings, and surface models, allows the users to be familiar with CAD through self-study and apply the functions of KOMPAS-3D Home efficiently.

KOMPAS-3D Home comes with professional surfacing commands which empower users to make simple or complicated shapes as per the design requirements.

The users can also model virtual body surfaces containing a thickness of zero, the type of flexible body useful for composite geometries.

KOMPAS-3D Home is based on a specifically developed version of Ascon group’s own modeling kernel that integrates the features of parametric construction, history-based design, and direct modeling essential for solids as well as surfaces modeling.

KOMPAS-3D Home is compatible with DWG, DXF, and STEP having ability to read design files from a series of other CAD, CAM, and CAE systems as well export to them.

The users can export drawings and models in raster formats like TIFF for technical documentation and JPEG for Web site designs.

The users can access this parametric software for 70 Euros (US$95).

Download the free demo version.

  

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Download Revit Architecture Tutorials in PDF

Revit Tutorials has been set up to help both new and experienced users learn the fundamentals and best practices for using Revit software. All Free Revit Ebooks you can download here:-

Getting Started with Revit Architecture: Getting Started Welcome to Revit Architecture 2009! We hope you enjoy learning and using this revolutionary parametric building modeller.

Revit Structure and Revit Architecture: Revit Structure Coordination between Revit Structure and Revit Architecture Structural engineers who use Revit® Structure software can better coordinate their work...

Revit Architecture 2014 Basics: Revit Architecture 2014 Basics From the Ground Up Elise Moss www.SDCpublications.com SDC Better Textbooks.

Revit Architecture 2013: Autodesk Revit Architecture 2013 Fundamentals 2–4 2.1 Building Information Modeling Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an approach to the entire.

What s New with Autodesk Revit 2013 Stairs and Railings: What s New with Autodesk Revit 2013 Stairs and Railings What's New with Autodesk Revit 2013 Stairs and Railings? Paul F. Aubin Paul F. Aubin Consulting Services.

Effective Design of Structural Steel Using Autodesk: Effective Design of Structural Steel Using Autodesk Revit Structure 2012 5 Part 2: Hands-on Tutorial for Structural Extensions Preparing Revit Model for...

BIM Building Information Modeling and Pedagogical Challenges: BIM (Building Information Modeling) and Pedagogical Challenges Jeong Han Woo Western Illinois University Macomb, IL BIM is a new building design and documentation...

Autodesk Revit 2013: Suite Workflow from Autodesk Revit 2013 to Autodesk. Showcase AutoCAD Architecture 2013 Universal Manual transfer of assembly sheets...

Revit Architecture 2011 User Guide PDF: Printed manual help produced with Idiom WorldServer. WindowBlinds: DirectSkin OCX . How Does Revit Architecture Keep Things Updated?

Revit Architecture 2012 Paul F. Aubin: By focusing on the rationale practicality of the Revit Architecture process - Aubin Academy Master Series: Revit Architecture 2012 is a concise manual...

IES Plugin for Revit Architecture: The IES Plugin for Revit Architecture 2008 is a free Plugin that provides the linkage interface experience that the connection between Revit Architecture and the...

REVIT Structure A to Z CADclips: Apr 15 2007 REVIT Structure 4. These CADclips are designed for the new REVIT user who has not used. REVIT before in any capacity.

Training of Architectural BIM e Submission Template: Training of Architectural BIM e Submission Template (for Revit Users Only) Diagram below summarises the important features...

3D PDF User Manual 3DA System: Revit Architecture MEP Structure is a registered trademark of Autodesk Inc. 3D PDF for Revit 2014 is an integrated software running within the Revit...

Revit keyboard Shortcuts: Some common Revit keyboard Shortcuts. From C:\Program Files\Autodesk Revit \Program\KeyboardShortcuts.txt.

BIM for Interior Design CAD Training Online: Revit Architecture these designers will sometimes quickly model the relevant selected) a parametric building modeler like Revit Architecture preserves...

BIM Library Components Design Guide: DCD is a multi disciplinary setup with professionals from Architecture Structural Before creating a family in Revit users should consider the following...

  

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Autodesk vault interacts with Revit server

This video shows how autodesk vault interacts with revit server and how to configure them both across different sites connected through a WAN. The demo shows how and why the combination of vault and revit server is the perfect solution for cross-site collaboration.

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Think of BIM as the most power tool for designers

BIM is a very useful tool that can streamline the workflow of an architect to a great extent. The architect can produce numerous views from numerous points right way. The architects can build up concept from all views and the types of drawings through the interrelation of a BIM. With BIM, the architect will be able to make all images and facets of the building immediately.

Reiteration is one of the great features of BIM. If any architect has completed any residential project through BIM software, he/she will be able to create a series of parts to be reprocessed repeatedly. The architect can get door and window objects which fulfill their graphic standards and contain various types of embedded information.

BIM empowers the architect to accomplish several designs which involve plans as well as sections, elevations, 3D models, and schedules. All these are created instantly and the architect can avail enormous design data with each iteration. The architect can view and evaluate several versions of even simple design modifications in endless ways. The real values of various options turn out to be much more perceptible and definable. Having all this data, the designer will get the ability to change his viewpoint from creating all the drawings that depict the alterations to exploring and analyzing all the alterations (and finds new ideas from that knowledge).

BIM comes with scopes to design with additional data and in more dimensions. BIM includes energy evaluation characteristics facilitating the designers to insert energy modeling to their design criteria. Now the architect can authenticate and develop their design decisions regarding material choices, thermal properties, and solar orientation.

BIM also offers the scopes for making changes in resolution. The Architect applying BIM for their design will be able to dial up or down the aspect of a model, either by inserting only the appropriate information or by concealing information. If the architect observes BIM through the lens of model resolution, the diversity of output turns out to be evident. BIM maintains the balance amid grain, complexity, and order. A designer can model as much or as little is necessary to shift the project forward and then capable of communicating only the pertinent information to the client. And that information can then be adjusted on the basis of whom it is allocated with. If the architect recognizes relevant resolution to BIM, it helps him to remain in control and not caught up by redundant data.

Resolution control facilitates the architect to sort out data in proper & visual ways. Numerous dimensions facilitate to graphically signify all natures of interesting data in remarkable ways. Iteration and speed help to use the identical graphics and image quality, as soon as a suitable standard is built up, all through the every scheme and design change.

So, every architect should embrace technology to enhance the design progression and workflow and be ahead of competition.

  

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Export a BIM model from Sketchup and Import to Revit

A quick demonstration showing how to export a BIM model from Sketchup and import it into Revit.

For more information about Sketchup 2014 BIM www.sketchup.com/products/sketchup-pro

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Transform your estimating skill to the next level with BIM – An exclusive video from Exactal

Go through the following exclusive video presented by Exactal and Trevor Woods at University of Westminster which focuses on industry BIM expertise for students. This online demonstration on BIM will provide great benefits to any Estimators or Quantity Surveyors to sharpen their skills while performing in a BIM atmosphere.

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Experience innovative BIM workflow through ArchiCAD 18

GRAPHISOFT declared the availability of the latest version of its BIM software alias ArchiCAD 18 to transform the BIM workflow to the next level.

The important feature of this new application is the integration of CineRender, a sophisticated render engine having superior photorealistic rendering capabilities at par with the professional visualization application Cinema 4D. The cinema 4D users will now be able to put in highly developed graphics and animations to their projects as well as perform the rendering job within the BIM application. With quick preview and background processor support, the rendering progression becomes smoother.

ArchiCAD 18 records and automatically documents alterations to the building model so that any dispute can be resolved easily in future. ArchiCAD 18 comes with the most updated Revision Management solution that is incorporated into the complete BIM workflow, facilitating 2D, 3D or any kind of hybrid workflows.

By introducing BIM-related intelligence and data hierarchies into PDF files, ArchiCAD 18 provides PDF-supported smooth workflows for the various types of collaborators in the AEC industry by bringing in BIM-allied intelligence and data hierarchies into PDF files.

ArchiCAD comes with various IFC-related enhancements along with professional scheme-motivated data management and data mapping and high-class (certified) export procedures. ArchiCAD 18 offers complete BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) support. It is an open file format facilitating users to include textual comments and screenshots on top of the IFC model layer to make improved communication process amid the coordinating parties. ArchiCAD 18 amalgamates BCF information natively into the BIM model through ArchiCAD Mark-Up entries. Therefore, ArchiCAD connects leading BIM applications like model checker, structural and MEP engineering software compatible with the BCF format.

ArchiCAD 18 is completely incorporated with GRAPHISOFT BIMcloud® that facilitates industry-first, real-time BIM collaboration irrespective of the size, location or setup of the collaborating team.

GRAPHISOFT ArchiCAD® 18 will be available for commercial application in June, 2014 with an remarkable list of 26 local versions rolled out by the end of Q3 2014.

Download the full documentation

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Setting up the Chameleon Component in Grasshopper for Revit

Learn how to set up the Chameleon Component in Grasshopper for transferring Geometry from Rhino into Revit. View the entire course here: http://blackspectacles.com

  

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How BIM provides great benefits to MEP engineers through 3d building system design

Building Information Modelling (BIM) facilitates MEP engineers to visualize building systems precisely before the commencement of actual construction which result in taking more informed decisions in advance in the design phase. So building system design becomes more perfect as well as organized from concept through construction.

A BIM model includes coordinated and reliable information which help in communicating designs as well design alterations evidently with MEP engineers and their project team members. Thus project team members can fulfill their goals.

BIM facilitates project team members to take sustainability initiatives by carrying out energy analysis, assessing system loads, generating heating and cooling load reports.

A BIM model aids in maintaining coordinated design data, reducing errors & omissions, and increases collaboration amid engineering and architecture teams. All model information is preserved inside a solo, coordinated database. Any modification and revision to information is updated automatically all through the model.

On the basis of workflow and project requisites, MEP engineers get the ability to collaborate and interact successfully. BIM allows project team members to lessen design clashes through real-time clash and interference detection.

BIM reproduce real-world MEP system performance for having superior overview of cost, scheduling, and environmental impact.

BIM offers more authentic and coordinated construction documents for whole MEP design team. BIM automatically produce plan, section, elevation, detail, and schedule views which reveal design information in a perfect way. All model views are synchronized from a universal database facilitating more reliable, coordinated change management.

Engineers will be able to make HVAC systems with mechanical functionality and offer 3D modeling for ductwork, plumbing and piping system and revise the model by dragging design constituents onto the screen in more or less any view. Modeling can also be performed together in section and elevation views. If some alterations are taken place to the MEP model, all model views and sheets are updated automatically. This results in preserving more perfect, coordinated designs and documents.

 

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Autodesk declared the free access to all its professional 3D design software and creativity applications for the school students

Autodesk, Inc, key solution provider in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software, recently declared an exclusive offer for all the USA and Canada based school students to avail Autodesk’s professional 3D design software and creativity applications at free of cost.

Autodesk had been offering free access to individual licenses of its software for Students and educators through Autodesk Education Community since 2006. Students and educators have also had free access to individual licenses of Autodesk software through the Autodesk Education Community since 2006.

The students having involvement with core subjects like math and science will be benefitted by researching, modeling and making animation in 3D through Autodesk 123D Design and Autodesk Maya.

By applying superior, professional design software like Autodesk Fusion 360(TM, the students will be capable of maneuvering changes in a fast paced industry. The cloud component of the product also aids the students to work in partnership and pass on their ideas with other disciplines.

Autodesk's vow is worth over $460 million, and authorizes educators at over 35,000 middle schools, high schools, and higher education institutions in the United States and Canada.

Autodesk's 3D design software, creativity applications, and learning resources are widely acknowledged throughout the education gamut to speed up the learning progression. These include the following:-

• Develop Skills of juvenile learners from middle schools and able to support science, technology, engineering, digital arts, or mathematics (STEAM) allied subjects to clarify real world challenges.
• Teaching industry-related knowledge and 3D design skills to provide the students a competing edge for attaining their individual goals as well as success in their career in near future.
• Facilitates the educators to motivate inventiveness and modernism with a project-based curriculum and a integrative approach to education; empowers the team to work together and acquire skills for solving practical problems.

To have free access to Autodesk software for schools, visit www.autodesk.com/academic

  

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Revit to Sketchup with 3D AutoCAD File

This tutorial takes you step by step through the basics of bringing a Revit Model into Sketchup, and application of layers and textures.

  

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The importance of BIM Labs for educational institution

Building information modeling (BIM) labs are playing important roles to create design for waterways, roads, bridges, buildings, factories, electrical grids, and a wide array of other modern infrastructures. Several educational institutions are now utilizing BIM labs.

The companies, academic establishments and developers utilize BIM software and customize it according to the existing projects. Most of them prefer to integrate the factors like time of construction & cost which the conventional 3D CAD-type software (such as Revit, Autodesk Building Design Suite, and Graphisoft's ArchiCAD) lacks. As per the requirements of the project, other information like the manufacturer's details (product information and production) as well as maintenance information and projected maintenance cycles over time are also included with BIM.

To reap skills of the engineering students, several colleges are inviting technoglogy companies for obtaining the most excellent visual equipment in their BIM labs for superior practical and theoretical training.

George Brown College in Toronto applies Christie Digital Systems to set the new BIM Lab at the school's Centre for Construction and Engineering Technologies. The high-tech lab will be equipped with three outsized immersive screens which will allow the students to envisage, design, and collaborate with each other on various types of projects in a virtual reality environment. Three Mirage WU7K-M 120 Hz stereoscopic 3D DLP projectors, pumping out 6,300 ANSI lumens each, will make stunning presentations of those screens. The 55-pound projectors sport a 10,000:1 contrast ratio containing the HD resolution of 1,920p x 1,200p through a Widescreen Ultra Extended Graphics array (WUXGA).

The Mirage projectors attribute three modes of 3D input - the WUXGA (DVI-D) listed above, analog BMC, and frame-doubled DVI-D - which comes up several connection options for the applied PCs or servers. Dual Osram PvIP 200W LED lamps featuring 2,000 hours of life enlighten the projectors to produce dazzling, highly comprehensive images.

NC State's lab was equipped with Christie MicroTiles, projectors, and Spyder X20 video processors utilized with a diversified research projects and a technology forum of sorts for lectures and social gatherings. The MicroTiles can attach with each other to make a display screen in almost any required shape. The 16-inch x 12-inch cubes are set up with their own short-throw projector that turn outs an image from a LED light source and DLP optical micro-mirror device.



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