Welcome eTransmit to Revit

eTransmit is now available for Revit, in Autodesk Labs, as a technology preview!
Automatically detach from central, include reference files like dwgs and dwfs. Great job Autodesk Labs.

Link http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/revit_etransmit/

File Upgrader for Revit

New toy from the Autodesk Labs.
This plugin can be used to batch upgrade previous versions of Revit files to the Revit 2012 format. This utility tool is intended to help upgrade family contents. You can also use it to upgrade project files.

http://labs.autodesk.com/utilities/ADN_plugins/catalog/

Revit Bench Marks

Some recent testing of Xeon and I7 processors, we tried to use closest comparable hardware.

Intel Core i7-950 Quad Core @ 3.07 Ghz
12GB RAM
Windows 7 64-bit
Nivida Qudro FX 1800
6 Opening and loading custom template
9 Creating the floor levels and grids
26 Creating a group of walls and doors
44 Modifying the group by adding a curtain wall
21 Creating the exterior curtain wall
10 Creating the sections
11 Changing the curtain wall panel type
36 Create 3D view and render
31 Export all views
194 TOTAL

Intel Xeon W3565 Quad Core @ 3.20 Ghz
12GB RAM
Windows 7 64-bit
Nivida Qudro 2000
4 Opening and loading custom template
8 Creating the floor levels and grids
24 Creating a group of walls and doors
43 Modifying the group by adding a curtain wall
18 Creating the exterior curtain wall
9 Creating the sections
9 Changing the curtain wall panel type
34 Create 3D view and render
29 Export all views
178 TOTAL

Structural Framing (the other stuff)

Working with my structural design guys as they learn Revit, we found a few items worth mentioning about the additional framing that is added for braces, sag rods, opening frames and girts. My guys started by just following the how to books and some basic training. The tool mentioned to use for the additional framing, in the framing elevation, was braces. Brace tool works great for diagonal members, but is not as effective when placing vertical or horizontal members. When used for vert. or horz. members and changes were made to the larger framing, the bracing members tended to skew. When then started to use beams and columns with much better results.

Issue after starting to use beams and columns for the additional framing, was they were exporting into the analysis software. This was increasing the export/import for

unneeded items and engineers did not want them. We then found we could go to properties of the members and set Analyze As to Not for analysis.

Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Wow, Clay county in north Florida is hosting it's second Extreme Home Makeover. I attended the pep rally tonight. It started with a bang; Jackson deville from the Jaguars and Mr Biggs from Jacksonville Giants.


We heard from one of the producers, design team members, and the build team. We heard about how the show started and that the original name was Space Invaders. Looking forward to participating in the week to come.


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Revisions Without Revision Bubbles

Some companies like to denote full set issues like permit or construction in the Revision Schedule. This can become a problem when the only way some people know how to add revisions is to have a revision bubble on the sheet. Adding that revision bubble can be quite time consuming on a 200 sheet issue. Another way to do this is to add it through the sheet view properties.

Simply select your sheet in the browser, go to properties and look for Revisions On Sheet. Select edit.


Use the Revision On Sheet dialog to check off what revisions you would like to show on that sheet. Of course you would have to create a Revision for Construction Issue or whatever it might be.

Revit-Up

Well finishing up this year and preparing for the new year.
I have spent some time building some application, creating content and starting our Revit Standards Manual. The key to creating the content and standards this year has been; keeping notes, documenting what the standards are and following some sort of guidelines.

To do this, I simple started with our old CAD Manual and the National CAD Standards. This gave me the basis of how the final drawings should look. I then proceeded to look for some Revit based standards for my content. I found that at on the Autodesk seek website http://seek.autodesk.com/revit.htm.

Finally, listen to your users. The guys using the software on the job everyday will tell you the issues. Some will ripe Revit apart others will tell you about the difficulties and success.