Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014 - Visual Styles

This exclusive video tutorial is presented by Infinite Skills. More details on this Revit training can be seen at infiniteskills.com. This clip is one example from the complete course.

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Creating 3D Model from Scan to BIM

The recently released IMAGINiTs Scan to BIM 2014.1 software for renovation and retro?t projects, and which is available on a rental basis builds upon the Autodesk Revit platform to offer additional point cloud functionality and modeling data that can be relied and validated. This latest version of the Scan to BIM software aids users in creating 3D building information model (BIM) in Autodesk’s Revit building design software from point cloud data.

With Scan to BIM users can view point clouds in Revit more precisely and create as well as validate any model from a point cloud with automated recognition and placement of architectural elements like walls and columns, as well as MEP elements like pipes, conduits, ducts, etc. Besides, it is compatible with Revit 2012, 2013 or 2014. Users can also rent Scan to BIM on a quarterly or yearly basis for any specific project.

Capable of creating native Revit geometry from a point cloud and analyzing the differences between point cloud and the model geometry, Scan to BIM includes the following features-

• Scan to BIM provides with tools to aid with creation of Revit elements that include: Walls (straight or arc), Columns (rectangular or round), Embedded Curtain Walls, Pipe, Conduit and Duct (rectangular or round), and Levels. Construction geometry to support other element types. Clean topography extraction.
• Helps interference or clearance detection for geometry vs. point cloud
• Available with workflow-based tools that help setting up and working on model with the point cloud
• Viewing enhancements to create useful views quickly to step through the project and options to toggle point cloud visibility
• Align as well as extend the prevailing geometry to match the point cloud
• Measuring points within the scan to find correct dimensions promptly
• By comparing the Revit elements against the point cloud user can visualize the accuracy
• The ability to export and import data in a format that can be understood by electronic surveying equipment, so that users can read in survey data for as-built conditions, as well as exporting design data for field verification
• Supporting floating network licenses

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AEC sectors can now avail numerous BIM data from GROHE

GROHE, the leading European bathroom manufacturer, is providing BIM data for architects, engineers and construction industry. BIM comes up with a useful process for producing and networking data for global construction industry.

BIM presents quick and superior options for software-based planning, implementation and supervision of construction projects. GROHE is well known for manufacturing sanitary fittings and committed to make a sea change in global construction industry. Towards fulfilling its commitment, GROHE now offers BIM data on some 100 of its high-class sanitary products for planners, architects and interior designers. GROHE also provides an on-demand service in favor of architects who need a model not included with online top 100 selection.

The BIM practice confines and integrates all pertinent building data in a digital representation that is visualised through a building model. All the related files and lists are updated accordingly if any modifications occur with the model.

All project stakeholders can avail a mutual and persistently synchronized database. This guarantees constant availability of the most updated data that leads to superior and quicker interchange of information. Besides, enhancing productivity throughout the planning and construction stages, BIM can also streamline the management and maintenance of the accomplished building right through its lifecycle, providing long-standing advantages for owners and operators.

Architects, planners, engineers and contractors can make extensive application of BIM data at the time of specifying products. They can provide the BIM data of any product in their project and get the results on available space, style and decor, technical requirements and costs.

Accessible BIM data is considered to be vital factor in winning a supply contract for a project. BIM also facilitates the manufacturer to constantly put in value to its product information as well as update it on a continuing basis. Project contributors can obtain BIM data on plentiful Internet portals. GROHE’s BIM ready data can be obtainable in Autodesk Revit format on the company website as well as on www.bimstore.co.uk.

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Roof Framing Extensions for Autodesk Revit

This exclusive video tutorial is presented by Autodesk Building Solutions. Roof Framing Extensions for Autodesk Revit 2013 software applications is comprised of two extensions that help automate modeling of roofs in Autodesk Revit, Autodesk Revit Structure and Autodesk Revit Architecture software applications.

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IMAGINiT’s Scan to BIM 2014.1 Released

IMAGINiTs Scan to BIM 2014.1 software has been released on a rental basis for renovation and retro?t projects. The new version of the Scan to BIM software supports users in creating 3D building information model (BIM) in Autodesk’s Revit building design software from point cloud data.

IMAGINiT, a division of Rand Worldwide, an IT and engineering design firm is based in Based in Framingham, Massachusetts. It is also considered as one of largest integrators of Autodesk 3D design and engineering software in the world. Revit has features for architectural design, construction, MEP and structural engineering. Autodesk ReCap, the point cloud engine for Revit, merges point cloud and photogrammetry, to allow designers to view and use bigger datasets.

Only available as a division of the Autodesk Building Design Suite 2014 Premium and Ultimate editions, Autodesk’s Revit software is exclusively created for BIM. The Scan to BIM 2014.1 plug-in for Revit 2012, 2013 or 2014 helps users to work inside Revit for creating and validating a model from a point cloud with automated recognition and positioning of native Revit geometry and architectural elements like columns & walls, and MEP elements like linework, pipes, conduits, and ducts.

In Scan to BIM, IMAGINiT has generated a rental option that permits small firms and irregular users of point clouds- architects, mechanical engineers, scanning providers and plant designers- to improve productivity and profitability by employing Scan to BIM 2014.1 without paying for the conventional perpetual license. Scan to BIM software allows users to work more efficiently by leveraging the data in Revit to create elements directly.

The new release also includes features like Section Box Tool, Quality Assurance Tool to enhance modeling efficiency with point clouds directly in Revit, and Create from CAD Tool. It also allows users to view point clouds based on color, elevation, intensity, and evaluate differences by comparing the Revit model against the point cloud.

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College Uses Christie 3D Visualization Solutions for its BIM Lab

Kitchener, Ontario: Toronto’s George Brown College, one of Canada’s largest colleges, has decided to use Christie’s visualization solutions for its BIM Lab in the Centre for Construction and Engineering Technologies (CCET) at the Casa Loma campus.

BIM Lab can be used by industry professionals, business partners as well as students to develop 3D digital models and visualize them on a custom Christie-designed demonstration solution, driven by three 120Hz stereoscopic 3D DLP Christie Mirage WU7K-M projectors. The college aims at staying ahead of trends and technology in the construction industry with continued innovation, improved practical as well as theoretical teaching & learning. And this mission of the college is well supported by the enhanced, immersive, simulation space.

Christie’s improved stereoscopic Mirage WU7K-M projector, with WUXGA resolution at 6,300 ANSI lumens from dual lamps offers clear images, bright colors, uniform brightness, and with Christie Twist, users can control warping and blending to ensure that the image fits any dimension or shape. And the George Brown College has opted to use Christie’s visualization solutions after realizing that using the latest technology can facilitate learning and prepare their students for the future.

Zoran Veselic, Vice President of Visual Environments, at Christie, said that the Christie Mirage M series projectors are compact, very competent, and offer a low cost of ownership.

Pietro Ferrari, who is the professor and coordinator at the School of Architectural Studies at George Brown College, informed that the college will provide a program of BIM-related courses, which will also include an extensive post-graduate BIM Certificate program. This modern facility will provide learning opportunities to cover all aspects of virtual design and construction starting from project procurement to building processes and facility management.

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Be more collaborative during conceptual design with SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual and Social Innovation

SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual facilitates the 3D professional to obtain a protected, intuitive and interchangeable collaborative atmosphere from one interface. The 3D professional will be capable of presenting any ideas efficiently, offering new innovation, and grasping and handling requirements, feedback and comments from every concerned person.

Towards the indispensable part of SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual solution, the 3D professional can produce unrestricted numbers of communities where they control who can partake. These refer to the secure and controlled surroundings where the 3D professionals can concentrate on interaction and collaboration on several projects involving various project stakeholders simultaneously. Get to the final design more rapidly and cut downs lead time for the customer. Blogs, wikis, iQuestions are some examples for advancing social innovation within communities.

Social innovation as a part of SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual allows the 3D professionals and other team associates for having a completely implanted, intuitive way to impeccably work together while performing on their concepts all at once. With the help of a web browser, various other people from different corners of the world, can avail the communities and involve in the expansion of your product as well as conceptual design activities.

To transform the collaboration process more dynamic, the 3D professionals can utilize synchronized, instantaneous 3D messaging that is seamlessly implanted within SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual and reachable via a Web browser.

Social innovation empowers the 3D professionals to be connected with their project stakeholders before time, present innovations with their clients, and gather feedback instantly, serving them to execute their conceptual design in the proper way early and providing them competitive edge in the market.

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What's New in Autodesk Revit 2014

This exclusive video tutorial is presented by Autodesk Building Solutions. View a presentation of the new and enhanced features for all Autodesk Revit 2014, Autodesk Revit Architecture 2014, Autodesk Revit MEP 2014, and Autodesk Revit Structure 2014 software.

Autodesk Revit 2014 is only available as part of the Premium and Ultimate editions of Autodesk Building Design Suite 2014.

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How BIM was applied in the $1.85 billion new Royal Adelaide Hospital project

Royal Adelaide, a high-tech hospital in South Australia is the biggest building ever constructed in Australia. In this project near about 1,300 workers perform onsite to make plan and get the 10-level hospital ready to be introduced in 2016.

Some hi-tech methods were applied in the construction processes of the hospital through the Building Information Management system incorporated with myriad computer systems and numerous construction specifications.

Under this system the blueprint from paper has been shifted into a 3D computer system which enables contractors and staff to verify efficiently through tablets or smart phones. The 3D system helps in showcasing a wide array of building parts to be updated in real time as construction progresses. This consecutively enhanced the scopes for modules to be created off site involving supreme accurateness - then assembled on jobsite.

So, it can be said that the BIM system alias ‘virtual construction’ has has fundamentally transformed the construction industry.

Now the several users can sign up and avail the 3D images rather than searching for paper drawings, and all will be updated in real time.

The 3D approach will facilitate the prefabrication off-site, and save huge time and space at the construction site. Lots of incorporated models are transferred into the master 3D model that can decrease the possibility for inaccuracies compared to contractors working off paper plans.

The 3D designs necessitate each item to provide a code, and ensure that such items can be identified easily for future reference or preservation. A wide array of coded items varies from light fittings and furniture through to architectural fittings. It also integrates operating manuals for each item, ending the requirements to look for booklets.

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The Legal BIM Frontier: New Contracts and Recent Case Developments – An exclusive event on BIM

WPL Publishing is going to sponsor an event entitled as “The Legal BIM Frontier: New Contracts and Recent Case Developments”, highlighting the latest legal developments concerning building information modeling (BIM) technology and how these developments are persuaded by construction professionals. The webinar will continue for 90 minutes and be held on Feb. 12, 2014, at 1:00 p.m. (EST).

BIM execution involves a multifaceted new set of risk-allocation and management challenges. To cope up with the situations, numerous sets of BIM contract addendums and implementation guides have come out from diversified institutes. But if BIM is applied perfectly, it can lessen claims and legal issues to a great extent.

The webinar will facilitate the construction professionals to realize and deal with issues in this area.

Upon completion of the webinar, the attendees can perform the following activities:

• Walk around risk management concerning digital information necessary for initiating a BIM project.
• Apply supplementary BIM contract forms to include to standard project contracts.
• Set up a BIM execution plan for a new BIM project.
• Use the concepts of the information manager, project participant, and contributor to plan staffing for a BIM project.

Rebecca McWilliams, an attorney and licensed architect will perform as the keynote speaker. She focuses her practice on helping design professionals by offering contract reviews, business entity advisement, risk management evaluations, claims monitoring, and associated legal services. She has in-depth knowledge on BIM and sustainable design projects. Before starting her legal career, she practiced architecture for 10 years, with a portfolio including single- and multi-family residential units, design-build retail, commercial offices, religious facilities, condominiums, and K-12 public schools.

After her presentation, there will be an interactive 10-to-15 minute question-and-answer session addressing relevant topics.

Webinar tuition is based on location, not number of participants, so each registration site can have multiple participants for one low price.

Register online www.tinyurl.com of the Infinite Skills.

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How I Build a Space Station in Revit Architecture

This exclusive video tutorial is presented by Architecture Concepts. This is simple video of Speed drawing in Autodesk Revit.

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Infinite Skills Inc offers an exclusive training video on revit rendering and visualization

Infinite Skills Inc, the leading software training provider, just releases “Revit - Rendering and Visualization Tutorial,” a superior level training program that focuses on Revit's tools for generating photorealistic, information-rich, 3D models concerning any building projects.

Ed Cotey, a commercial interior design, a construction project manager, a CAD consultant as well as a college professor, performs as the course other. He also conducts classes on Revit, AutoCAD and Sketchup at the college level.

This training guide is very useful for advanced level Revit users to sharpen their skills with all the elements of producing and rendering highly detailed Revit construction models as well as designing 3d models of building & their components.

Cotey starts with the fundamental setup for visualizations, highlighting how to make an exterior perspective view, adjust the camera view, generate an interior perspective, and build and export a complete walk-through.

Cotey then explains lighting features, providing details on how to set up a solar study, characterize the site's true north and sun path, and make still and single-day, along with multi-day solar studies.

At the end of the course, Cotey briefly describes how to organize an exterior view for rendering, how to manage the rendering with settings, how to deal with light groups, and lots other.

The participants can produce consequential analytical visualizations communicating designs in most realistic settings possible after successfully undergoing the course.

Free demo videos and a full list of course contents are accessible on the Revit - Rendering and Visualization training page of the Infinite Skills.

The users can download Infinite Skills offers its Revit - Rendering and Visualization Training Video directly from the company website at a retail price of $24.95.

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Home Builders can produce a smarter estimate with BIM Pipeline

BIM Pipeline refers to a web supported, rules motivated material management and estimation system that applies BIM data to directly undertake comprehensive take-offs.

BIM Pipeline facilitates builders to control BIM data for producing complete master plan estimates through delta BOM reports for options, lot specific as built reports to directly cut purchase orders as well as confine changes focused on customer to track client customizations, all self-governing of the source of the BIM data. Builders can now find a way out to bridge the historical gap proficiently & perfectly amid design and estimation and minimize cycle times.

BIM Pipeline was specially designed for home builders to perform exact material takeoffs and rapidly understand their construction costs. The module based design facilitates builders to opt for the features for fulfilling their current goals.

BIM Pipeline uses and clarifies BIM data directly from numerous leading BIM applications like AutoCAD Architecture, Revit, Vertex BD, and VisionRez. Then it links design, sales, estimation, and purchasing by incorporating with back office system directly. It also outputs to Excel or homogeneous XML for incorporating with other back office systems.

BIM Pipeline comes up with three different modules as mentioned below:-

Builder module: It allows the users to handle all the consistent assets concerning a home builder and manage exactly what’s getting built.

Cloud estimating module: With Cloud Estimation the users will be able to get it all together by transmitting the BIM direct data to a full bill of materials.

Costing module: With the Costing Module you can prevent redundant tasks by using a complete BOM to align with various vendor's costs and establish a true cost to construct.

BIM Pipeline offers the following benefits to construction professionals:-

• Connect design to estimating for precise automated takeoffs
• Scale operations devoid of adding staff
• Enhance net margins
• Leverage the identified costs of a production builder, whereas facilitating customer specific changes to be happened and remain profitable.
• Commanding rules based estimating
• Job estimates provided "as built"
• On-the-fly Delta +/- estimates for model/options
• Recognized custom changes added to budget
• Constantly or quickly progress into BIM technology at your own pace with a flexible 3 phased implementation approach.
• Better manage options, communities, houses, and jobs.

Request a Demo www.cgvisions.com

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Knowing BIM

BIM or Building Information Management helps in keeping the workflow smooth between “the designed” and “the constructed” by managing information precisely. BIM is essential to coordinated and incorporate modifications, whenever & wherever required, between the conceptualized model of the building and the end result. It aids in enhancing the accuracy of the data the subsequent costing incurred.

We usually find a vast difference between what was conceived and the final result as in the entire construction process the design information is often replaced by alterations as per the requirement of the client, engineer and others. The raw data of the differences between the design and the construction create BIM diary that includes photographs and scanned copy of all the data, information of the design before anything is hidden concealed, or buried. These photographs support to detect alteration later when the construction is concealed by walls, floors, ceilings etc. The BIM diary also helps to check the activities on site and detect the conditions before, during, and after activities. This also provides the assurance that facts are accurately followed and ensures the planners, the design team, construction management, logistics
teams, manufacturers and health & safety. Besides, the clients can obtain a true picture the status of the construction and know what they are paying for.

BIM helps in maintaining the level of accuracy and creating an accurate costing analysis. Through BIM, the entire team of construction can remain well coordinated. The two major advantages of BIM are that it helps to complete a construction project on time and within the proposed budget. It is not surprising hence, to find the increased employment of BIM in varied projects to keep delay and over budget of projects in control.

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