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Showing posts with label Revit tool. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Revit tool. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 November 2013

Ideate, Inc. Features Lionakis in Its First Ideate Explorer for Revit Study in Success

Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
SAN FRANCISCO, California – 11/19/2013 - Ideate, Inc., a leading Autodesk Authorized Developer and Autodesk solutions provider offering quality software, training, support and custom consulting services to the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry with a special focus on Building Information Modeling (BIM), today announced the publication of its first Ideate Explorer for Revit-focused Study in Success, “One Secret Ingredient in Lionakis’ Quality Control—Ideate Explorer for Revit.”

California-based Lionakis has played a significant role in shaping the built environment throughout the State of California for more than a century. The multi-disciplined privately held firm specializes in architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, sustainability and graphics, and ranks in the top 25 of California’s leading architectural firms.

The firm’s Quality Control (QC) process provides a system for verifying and maintaining a desired level of quality in its BIM files by planning, continued inspection, and corrective action as required. Lionakis’ approach to its BIM projects includes firm-wide standards and a Revit-strong design staff. It also includes an in-house Design Technology (DT) team of Revit experts who create and maintain the Lionakis Revit master template and help the entire staff keep their Revit projects standardized and clean.

In the same way that the DT team peers deeply into Lionakis’ Revit files, the Study in Success peers deeply into Lionakis’ QC processes, with special attention to the ways Lionakis ensures confidence and trust in ever more complex and potentially error-prone BIM models. AEC firms of all sizes and members of related industries will have special interest in the Study in Success.

Kirk Cox, Design Technology Application Manager, Design Technology Studio, Lionakis, explains the vital nature of QC by saying, “It is always best to get the project back on the right path so the team can be as productive as possible. Having an effective QA/QC process translates to dollars and cents at the end of the day.”

Bob Palioca, President, Ideate Inc., says, “While we have published many articles about Ideate BIMLink, this is our first Ideate Explorer for Revit-focused Study in Success. We are gratified that our solution is helping to ensure project accuracy, reduce errors and save time, and we are pleased that Ideate Explorer for Revit has become indispensable for Lionakis’ staff training. We are overwhelmingly delighted with our customer’s success, and we are honored to share Lionakis’ valuable QC insights with the AEC community.”

Ideate has published “One Secret Ingredient in Lionakis’ Quality Control—Ideate Explorer for Revit” online. Download the Study in Success at http://www.ideateinc.com/ideas/case.html.

Ideate Software will be at Autodesk University, December 3-5, 2013, Booth 1913, The Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada.  


About Ideate, Inc.
Ideate, Inc. is a leading Autodesk Authorized Developer with 25+ years’ experience in software development and specific focus on Building Information Modeling (BIM) and is an Autodesk solutions provider offering quality software, training, support and custom consulting services to the AEC industry since 1992. Headquartered in San Francisco, California and operating five Autodesk Authorized Training Centers (ATCs) in the northwestern U.S., Ideate is recognized as an Autodesk Gold Partner for Architecture, Engineering and Construction, one of Autodesk’s highest levels of authorization.

Ideate BIMLink lets users pull data from an Autodesk Revit file into user-friendly Microsoft Excel and push Excel data into Revit with equal ease. www.ideatebimlink.com. Ideate Explorer for Revit is a simple, powerful Autodesk Revit add-on to explore, quantify and manage the 100,000+ building elements in a Revit model. www.ideateexplorer.com

Autodesk, ATC, and Revit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. Microsoft Excel is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders.


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Wednesday, 25 September 2013

Ideate BIMLink and Facilities Management 101

Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
  1. Your engineer/architect has modeled your new facility in Revit and the building is done
  2. Get your hands on the Building model, you own it, right?
  3. Open up Revit (trial version works fine – get it here).
  4. You launch Ideate BIMLink and you export the COBie_Type and COBie_Components to an Excel file. Whether you intend to do COBie or not these links are a great way to quickly get all of the asset list that you need to get started.
     
    1. If your budget permitted, you required the model to be updated to reflect as-built conditions. Congratulations, you get to skip ahead to Step 7.
    2. If the model does not reflect the as-built conditions then you should pay your architect and engineers to fill out the Excel files from step 4 above or have your own staff fill out any missing info. This can be done with a tablet as outlined in this earlier post.
    3. Congratulations, you now you have a complete list of all the building assets for use in managing the building’s maintenance and operations. That was easy!



    Glynnis Patterson is a registered architect and the Director of Software Development at Ideate, Inc.

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    Thursday, 20 June 2013

    eLearning – Upcoming Classes

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. 

    Upcoming classes include:
    6.25.13::Revit 201:
    Converting Blocks to Families
    6.27.13::Ideate Software 101:
    Revit Project Management with Ideate BIMLink
    7.2.13::Revit 201:
    Scheduling 201
    7.9.13::Revit 201:
    Design Options
    Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

    Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

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    Posted in AIA CEU, AIA LU, BIM, eLearning, Ideate, Ideate BIMLink for Revit 2014, Jim Cowan, Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit to Excel, Revit tool, Revit Training, RonPalmaAEC, sash kazeminejad, shruti harve | No comments

    Thursday, 13 June 2013

    eLearning – Upcoming Classes

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. 

    Upcoming classes include:
    6.20.13::Navisworks 201:
    Clash Detection
    6.25.13::Revit 201:
    Converting Blocks to Families
    6.27.13::Ideate Software 101:
    Revit Project Management with Ideate BIMLink
    Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

    Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

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    Posted in AIA CEU, AIA LU, Autodesk Navisworks 2014, BIM, eLearning, Ideate, Ideate BIMLink for Revit 2014, Jim Cowan, Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit to Excel, Revit tool, Revit Training, shruti harve | No comments

    Thursday, 6 June 2013

    eLearning – Upcoming Classes

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. 

    Upcoming classes include:
    6.20.13::Navisworks 201:
    Clash Detection
    6.25.13::Revit 201:
    Converting Blocks to Families
    6.27.13::Ideate Software 101:
    Revit Project Management with Ideate BIMLink
    Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

    Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

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    Posted in AIA CEU, AIA LU, Autodesk Navisworks 2014, BIM, eLearning, Ideate, Ideate BIMLink for Revit 2014, Jim Cowan, Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit to Excel, Revit tool, Revit Training, shruti harve | No comments

    Tuesday, 28 May 2013

    Ideate, Inc. Publishes New Study in Success Featuring Kasian and Ideate BIMLink

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    SAN FRANCISCO, California – 5/28/2013 – Ideate, Inc., a leading Autodesk® Authorized Developer and Autodesk solutions provider offering quality software, training, support and custom consulting services to the AEC industry, today announced the publication of its latest Study in Success, “Kasian Sets a New Facilities Planning Standard using Ideate BIMLink.” 

    The study reveals how Kasian Architecture, Interior Design and Planning, with offices in Canada, China and the Middle East, is eliminating information bottlenecks and easing workflows by using Ideate BIMLink for Autodesk Revit®. The Kasian office in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, developed and spearheaded the use of Room Data Sheets (RDS) which enable the firm to harness all relevant BIM data for project stakeholders. The practice is fast becoming facilities planning policy for the firm worldwide.

    The Ideate BIMLink-facilitated approach came out of a need to overcome escalating costs in time and prospective software purchases. To formulate and verify a single large project’s program/spatial requirements via traditional methods, Kasian estimated a cost of $400,000 Canadian (CA$). By revising workflows with Ideate BIMLink, those anticipated expenditures were reduced to $5,000 CA$. 

    Kasian BIM Support Specialist Laura Kay Smith says, “In the past, we did all the Room data and qualifications by hand, which cost us expensive time. With our new standard that brings in Ideate BIMLink at the beginning of every Integrated Project with Strategic Facilities Planning, we save an immeasurable amount of time and money. And designers are apt to have less re-design.”

    Brigid Barriscale, Kasian Associate, adds, “When the Strategic Facilities Planning Department used to check data sheets by hand, it took two to three weeks. With Ideate BIMLink, it takes more like two to three hours.” 

    Along with examples of savings, the Study in Success also details several Kasian projects and the role Ideate BIMLink had in the project
    ’s success.

    Bob Palioca, President, Ideate Inc. says of this latest Study in Success, “When we see our Ideate-developed software become integral to a firm’s standards, we are especially gratified. We consider changed workflows a demonstration of the value of our solutions.”

    Ideate has published “Kasian Sets a New Facilities Planning Standard using Ideate BIMLink” online. Download the Study in Success at http://www.ideateinc.com/ideas/case.html.

    About Ideate, Inc.

    Ideate, Inc. is a leading Autodesk Authorized Developer with 25+ years’ experience in software development and specific focus on Building Information Modeling (BIM) and is an Autodesk solutions provider offering quality software, training, support and custom consulting services to the AEC industry since 1992. Headquartered in San Francisco, California and operating five Autodesk Authorized Training Centers (ATCs) in the northwestern U.S., Ideate is recognized as an Autodesk Gold Partner for Architecture, Engineering and Construction, one of Autodesk’s highest levels of authorization.

    Ideate BIMLink lets users pull data from an Autodesk Revit file into user-friendly Microsoft Excel and push Excel data into Revit with equal ease. www.ideatebimlink.com

    Ideate Explorer for Revit is a simple, powerful Autodesk Revit add-on to explore, quantify and manage the 100,000+ building elements in a Revit model. www.ideateexplorer.com

    Autodesk, ATC, and Revit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders.


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    Thursday, 9 May 2013

    eLearning – Upcoming Classes

    Posted on 13:00 by Unknown
    Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. 

    Upcoming classes include:
    5.14.13::Revit 201:
    Roof Framing in Revit Structure
    5.16.13::Ideate Software 101:
    Revit Project Management with Ideate BIMLink
    5.28.13::Revit 201:
    Making Titleblocks
    Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

    Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

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    Posted in AIA CEU, AIA LU, BIM, eLearning, Ideate, Ideate BIMLink, Ideate Explorer for Revit, Ideate Inc., Jim Cowan, Revit, Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, Revit to Excel, Revit tool, Revit Training, shruti harve | No comments

    Thursday, 2 May 2013

    eLearning – Upcoming Classes

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. 

    Upcoming classes include: 
    5.7.13::Revit 201:
    Stairs and Railings in Revit
    5.9.13::Ideate Software 101:
    Revit Auditing with Ideate Explorer for Revit
    5.14.13::Revit 201:
    Roof Framing in Revit Structure
    5.16.13::Ideate Software 101:
    Revit Project Management with Ideate BIMLink

    Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

    Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

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    Posted in AIA CEU, AIA LU, BIM, eLearning, Ideate, Ideate BIMLink, Ideate Explorer for Revit, Ideate Inc., mep, Revit, Revit MEP, Revit to Excel, Revit tool, Revit Training, RonPalmaAEC, shruti harve | No comments

    Thursday, 25 April 2013

    eLearning – Upcoming Classes

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. 

    Upcoming classes include: 
    4.30.13::Analysis for Master Planning
    5.2.13::Ideate Software 101:
    Ideate BIMLink for Revit MEP Projects
    5.7.13::Revit 201:
    Stairs and Railings in Revit
    5.9.13::Ideate Software 101:
    Revit Auditing with Ideate Explorer for Revit
    Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

    Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

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    Posted in AIA CEU, AIA LU, bill johnson, BIM, eLearning, gaurav bagga, Ideate, Ideate BIMLink, Ideate Explorer for Revit, Ideate Inc., mep, Revit, Revit MEP, Revit to Excel, Revit tool, Revit Training, RonPalmaAEC | No comments

    Tuesday, 23 April 2013

    Ideate, Inc. Announces 2014 Release of Ideate-Developed Software Concurrent with Autodesk Launch

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    SAN FRANCISCO, California – 04/23/2013 – Ideate, Inc. announced today the delivery of Ideate BIMLink and Ideate Explorer for Revit 2014. The release of both Ideate-developed solutions takes place as it traditionally does within 30 days of the Autodesk Revit product launch. Ideate BIMLink 2014.0 and Ideate Explorer for Revit 2014.0 have been ported to the 2014 Revit platform so that Ideate customers can begin their own software migration and testing processes for the Autodesk Revit 2014 platforms. 

    This year Revit 2014 has several improvements that relate to the information, the “I,” in Building Information Modeling (BIM). See Ideate’s blog post on this topic: Revit 2014 Feature Review: More Data Liberated! Ideate has ensured that both Ideate Explorer for Revit and Ideate BIMLink support any changes to the data structures within the Revit file format. Further support of new workflows for Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations (A/E/C/O) customers is currently in development for Ideate 2014.1 releases. Both Ideate BIMLink and Ideate Explorer for Revit have five star ratings on the Autodesk Exchange Apps Store. 

    Ideate BIMLink is being released with new improvements including multi-category Area, Length, and Volume data for all Revit model categories, including system families. This improvement, along with other customer requests, is available for both the Revit 2013 and Revit 2014 version of Ideate BIMLink. A 30 day non-commercial trial is available: http://www.ideatebimlink.com/index.php/free-trial/

    Ideate Explorer for Revit enables users to catalog or “index” all the elements within a project, including elements not found within the Project Browser and elements that are invisible. A 30 day non-commercial trial is available: http://ideateexplorer.com/free-trial/

    Bob Palioca, President, Ideate Inc. says of Ideate BIMLink and Ideate Explorer for Revit 2014, “We are seeing our Ideate-developed software become integral to the standards of firms large and small. Changed workflows are an indicator of the value of our solutions to our customers. Being concurrent each and every year with the Autodesk launch is an important commitment. It is one of the ways we make sure our customers get maximum productivity from their software solutions.” 

    About Ideate, Inc.
    Ideate, Inc. is a leading Autodesk Authorized Developer with 25+ years’ experience in software development and specific focus on Building Information Modeling (BIM) and is an Autodesk solutions provider offering quality software, training, support and custom consulting services to the AEC industry since 1992. Headquartered in San Francisco, California and operating five Autodesk Authorized Training Centers (ATCs) in the northwestern U.S., Ideate is recognized as an Autodesk Gold Partner for Architecture, Engineering and Construction, one of Autodesk’s highest levels of authorization.


    Ideate BIMLink lets users pull data from an Autodesk Revit file into user-friendly Microsoft Excel and push Excel data into Revit with equal ease. ideatebimlink.com

    Ideate Explorer for Revit is a simple, powerful Autodesk Revit add-on to explore, quantify and manage the 100,000+ building elements in a Revit model. ideateexplorer.com

    Autodesk, ATC, and Revit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders. 

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    Monday, 22 April 2013

    Revit 2014 Feature Review: More Data Liberated!

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    As the developers of Ideate BIMLink we’ve been very focused on the data that our customers are embedding within their Revit Building Information Models, so as always when a new version of Revit ships, we carefully scrutinize all the new features and how they relate specifically to information management. Here’s a brief synopsis of what to look for and why you should care.

    Revit 2014 Supports New Schedules Types
    On the View tab, under the Schedule tool, find these new kinds of schedules. 


      New Schedule CategoryValue 1-5 (5=Best)

    (Arch) Columns

    1
    Feature: These are the architectural columns; the structural columns are already being scheduled.

    Benefit: Questionable value unless you are using the column family in some atypical way. Structural columns are generally the ones to schedule for takeoff work.

    Detail Items5
    Feature: 2D detail components, including fill patterns, are included in this new schedule type.

    Benefit: This has been a user request for some time, which is why it’s been in Ideate BIMLink since version 2011. Oddly, the repeating details and filled region elements appear to be lumped in with the more conventional items, so you may need to filter them out. Editing the keynote assignment will be the most practical use of this new functionality.

    Take Detail Items farther with Ideate BIMLink.

    Entourage1
    Feature: These are the 2D stick people that when rendered look slightly less 2D. YinYin – where are you?!

    Benefit: I see no practical use of this feature, so email me if you can figure it out. I guess if you had 100+ Entourage components and you wanted to use this schedule as a way of knowing which Rooms they were in, that might be useful, but that seems like a bad use of a schedule.

    Generic Models4
    Feature: All those items that otherwise defy categorization can now be scheduled.

    Benefit: This was another early Ideate BIMLink request that was implemented in 2011, so no doubt this will prove useful to some who are managing uniquely modeled elements. The absence of level and host information is why this is not marked as a 5.

    Grids and Levels5
    Feature: The name says it all.

    Benefit: Why not schedule these? While this hasn’t been a strong user request, having a summary of this information is a great way for a project manager to understand the project at a glance. I particularly like the fact that you can see and modify the Scope Box assignment for these items.

    Auditing Grids and Levels are part of Ideate’s Revit Audit Tips.

    Pads1
    Feature: The building pad object that is used to create a topography “cut” and place a slab-like object at the same time.

    Benefit: If used at all (it has an issue, still, with being properly managed by phases) the pad is unlikely to be needed as a scheduled object.

    Roof Soffits3
    Feature: Roofs, Roof Fascia, and Roof Gutters have always been able to be scheduled; now Roof Soffits join the mix.

    Benefit: This is a long-standing Revit request related to the delivering a more complete quantity takeoff. Glad to see that it’s been included.

    Structural: Beam Systems, Area Reinforcements, Path Reinforcements, and Fabric Areas2
    Feature: As with Roof Soffits, the addition of this data rounds out the Structural elements that can be modeled.

    Benefit: Unclear to me whether this has value. I think this information may be a bit ahead of the curve for most structural/construction firms, but it’s nice to see Autodesk expose this information to be leveraged as customers see fit.


    Revit 2014 Schedules Include New Properties
    In addition to the new schedule categories several bits of data have been exposed for your use. What will you leverage?

     
      New Property Added To SchedulesValue 1-5 (5=Best)

    Phase Created/Phase Demolished

    5
    Feature: Now your takeoff schedules can include the name of the Phase in which the element was created. I’m assuming that the Demolished field has negligible value when it comes to schedules. These two fields can also be used as a Filter within the schedule.

    Benefit: As we have documented in this blog called “Avoid Takeoff Blunders,” not having the phase info could cause significant issues within a quantity takeoff. In a multi-phase project these fields should be required as part of a QC process.

    Analytical and Physical Element Data Merged3
    Feature: When you schedule the structural framing category (or any other category with associated structural analytical model categories) you can now find both the physical and analytical properties available within the same schedule.

    Benefit: Being able to edit some of the analytical structural properties, in-line with its physical properties is part of a larger improvement related to the analytical model which will help solve round-tripping issues between Revit and structural analysis software.


    It’s great to see all this newly liberated data – it will be fun to see the new and creative ways in which Revit users put this data to work.  


    Don’t forget to look through other great features our Ideate Technical Team has found in the new 2014 releases for Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, Revit Structure, Civil 3D, AutoCAD, Navisworks and more: ideateinc.com/2014



    Glynnis Patterson is a registered architect and the Director of Software Development at Ideate, Inc. Glynnis is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon and has worked in the commercial, residential, and healthcare markets as an architect and has also worked in the construction industry as a construction estimator and project manager. Follow Glynnis on Twitter: @GVPinNJ

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    Thursday, 18 April 2013

    eLearning – Upcoming Classes

    Posted on 13:00 by Unknown
    Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. 

    Upcoming classes include: 
    4.23.13::Ideate 101:
    Network License Manager
    4.30.13::Analysis for Master Planning
    5.2.13::Ideate Software 101:
    Ideate BIMLink for Revit MEP Projects
    Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

    Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

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    Posted in AIA CEU, AIA LU, Autodesk License Manager, bill johnson, BIM, Derek Wielkopolski, eLearning, gaurav bagga, Ideate, Ideate BIMLink, Ideate Inc., mep, Revit, Revit MEP, Revit to Excel, Revit tool, Revit Training | No comments

    Monday, 25 March 2013

    Renaming and Renumbering in Revit, Simplified with Ideate BIMLink

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    One of the more tedious and labor-intensive BIM tasks confronting architects and engineers is the act of renumbering or renaming elements. We’ve had customers who require that all of the system families, for example, are prefixed with their company name. So instead of “Wall: 1-HR” we need “Wall: ABC_1-HR.” Likewise, even simple design changes can set off a chain reaction that requires significant renumbering of details, views, or equipment. Many times furnishings, fixtures, and equipment need to be renumbered in the middle of a project because new rooms or floors have been added, and the equipment numbering needs to align with the room and floor numbering schemas. 

    Naming and numbering tasks can also be driven by an owner requirement for external database compatibility. The COBie specification, which is now mandated for federal government projects in the US, is a prime example of this. For those of you not familiar with COBie you can learn more at the Whole Building Design Guide website. The COBie Guide* makes it clear that “During design, the Architect shall be responsible to resolve all conflicts in duplicative naming by their own staff and all consulting engineers.” This sounds like a very daunting task but with Ideate BIMLink you can turn a day-long project into a (5) minute task.

    This video demonstrates how Ideate BIMLink can be used to create and manage the unique type, component, and space naming requirements mandated by this COBie specification.



    (View video on YouTube)

    For information on other kinds of renumber tasks, refer also to our Door Numbering blog post.

    A typical COBie project will require at least (4) iterations: 
    • one for 35% Design Development, 
    • another at 100% Construction Documentation, 
    • another at the Beneficial Occupancy stage, 
    • and lastly within the As-Built documents
    That’s a lot of data entry! 

    Whether your renaming/renumbering task is driven by COBie or any other reason let Ideate BIMLink + Excel do the heavy lifting and put your architects and engineers onto higher order tasks.


    Glynnis Patterson is a registered architect and the Director of Software Development at Ideate, Inc. In a previous life Glynnis spent many hours looking at blueprints with a scale, highlighters, and a scratch pad to develop detailed cost estimates.

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    Thursday, 21 March 2013

    COBie + Revit – The Skinny from Ideate

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    I enjoyed making the rounds to the COBie + Revit community in the Bay Area this week; taking the opportunity to share my recent research into this topic with design and construction professionals at the Sacramento, East Bay, and San Francisco Revit user groups. My presentation focused on where COBie requirements intersect with BIM and then specifically how the Autodesk Revit Toolkit and Ideate BIMLink support managing this information.

    If you are interested in learning more about this topic, here are some the links I shared during my presentation.

    What is COBie?


    Sample Revit Files and COBie Output

    COBie Toolkit for Revit
     
    Renaming and Renumbering, Simplified –
    an Ideate BIMLink+COBie Example



    Glynnis Patterson is a registered architect and the Director of Software Development at Ideate, Inc. In a previous life Glynnis spent many hours looking at blueprints with a scale, highlighters, and a scratch pad to develop detailed cost estimates.

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    Thursday, 14 March 2013

    eLearning – Upcoming Classes

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. 

    Upcoming classes include: 
    3.18.13::Ideate Software 101:
    Revit Project Management with Ideate BIMLink
    3.26.13::Revit 201:
    Worksharing Best Practices
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    Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

    Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

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    Thursday, 7 March 2013

    eLearning – Upcoming Classes

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    Join the Ideate Tech Experts for eLearning – live online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education. 

    Upcoming classes include: 
    3.12.13::Revit 201:
    Revit Import Into 3ds Max
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    Revit Project Management with Ideate BIMLink
    Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

    Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link. Questions? Contact education@ideateinc.com

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    Wednesday, 27 February 2013

    $200,000 Software to be Awarded in Ideate 2013 Higher Education Software Grants

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    San Francisco, CA, 02/27/2013 – Ideate, Inc. (ideateinc.com), a leading Autodesk® Authorized Developer for more than 25 years, today announced it has pledged to grant more than $200,000 worth of Ideate-developed software to higher education institutions in 2013. Up to (15) awards will be granted to those institutions that can best demonstrate their support of research, development, and/or educational programs related to Building Information Modeling (BIM) and its use in collaborative design, construction, and facilities or asset management. 

    “Our commitment to our architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) customers’ needs inspires us to continually advance BIM technology. We are pleased that firms of all sizes are incorporating our Autodesk Revit® focused solutions into their workflows,” says Glynnis Patterson, Ideate Director of Software Development. “We are also aware of growing AEC industry demands for ever greater productivity and enhanced efficiencies. That is why we are instituting this grant program. Through grants, we can support college and university instructors who are educating AEC professionals to meet these expanding demands.” 

    Grant recipients will be awarded the Ideate Software Education Package which includes a network license with (10) seats of Ideate BIMLink and (10) seats of Ideate Explorer for Revit as well as access to live online Revit training for the year through Ideate, Inc. eLearning for Autodesk Revit.

    Ideate-developed software for the Autodesk Revit family of products allows users to manage and edit their BIM data with ease. Ideate BIMLink utilizes user-friendly Microsoft® Excel® for a wide variety of data management tasks that support vastly improved workflows. And Ideate Explorer for Revit empowers users to audit a 250 MB Revit model in less than one minute to keep it trouble-free. 

    Interested higher education institutions should Apply Online. Schools that are currently participating in the Solar Decathlon 2013 are encouraged to apply. 

    To be eligible, applicants must be employed at the institution and the institution must already be using Autodesk Revit software in its labs. The deadline for applications is Wednesday, March 27, 2013. Winners will be announced Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at noon (GMT - 8:00). 

    About Ideate, Inc.
    Ideate, Inc. is a leading Autodesk Authorized Developer with 25+ years’ experience in software development and specific focus on Building Information Modeling (BIM) and is an Autodesk solutions provider offering quality software, training, support and custom consulting services to the AEC industry since 1992. Headquartered in San Francisco, California and operating five Autodesk Authorized Training Centers (ATCs) in the northwestern U.S., Ideate is recognized as an Autodesk Gold Partner for Architecture, Engineering and Construction, one of Autodesk’s highest levels of authorization. 


    Autodesk and ATC are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders. 

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    Wednesday, 13 February 2013

    Free the Walls – Publishing Unconnected Wall Height Data with Ideate BIMLink

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    It’s hard to do a detailed analysis or cost estimate if you don’t know the height of the walls in your Autodesk Revit project. Ideate BIMLink exposes this information as well as other hard to access wall data such as phase, design option, orientation, and location data (XYZ). Many of our VDC customers take this data and move it forward, but of course it can also be pushed back into Revit for use in tags or schedules, if needed. This video shows the simple process of extracting all of the wall height data and then pushing it back into a project parameter so that it can be displayed in a schedule.



    While the technique shown here relates to the unconnected wall height values, this same procedure is being used by many Ideate BIMLink customers to push other kinds of data into schedules or tags. Managing occupancy data is another very similar workflow that can also be used to save time and improve accuracy.



    Glynnis Patterson is a registered architect and the Director of Software Development at Ideate, Inc. In a previous life Glynnis spent many hours looking at blueprints with a scale, highlighters, and a scratch pad to develop detailed cost estimates.

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    Monday, 4 February 2013

    Autodesk Exchange Apps!

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    In a recent class here at our Ideate Seattle office, one of our customers had requested a custom code that adds drawing tabs to their AutoCAD application. They had created this in the past to show drawing tabs at the top of the AutoCAD drawing window so their users would have an easier time switching from file to file with multiple drawings open.
     

    What many AutoCAD users may not know, or simply may not have taken advantage of, is that the Autodesk Exchange site (built-in to AutoCAD programs) has both free and paid Apps for many of the features that users have been requesting. These add-ons are not part of the out-of-box applications, but can be easily installed onto existing products on your workstation.
     

    One of these features just happens to be Drawing Tabs. 
     

    Here are a few more Apps that may be of interest:
    SketchUp Import (.SKP) Files
     

    QR Codes (Converts text to a QR code in your drawing)
     

    Screenshots (Adds a plug-in to take quick and easy screenshots of your drawing file)
    DWG Compare (compares two versions of a file to display differences in the drawing area)
    If you’ve never used Autodesk Exchange you can sign-in directly through the application using the blue and grey “X” in the upper right. Once you’re logged in, pick a product and you’ll be able to search through the available apps. The price ranges depend on who created the App and what it can do. Many of them are free, including the five mentioned above.


    Sign-in directly from AutoCAD and other Autodesk Products
    Autodesk Exchange also includes Apps for additional Autodesk products. In fact, we at Ideate have two of our own programs available through Autodesk Exchange. If you’re a Revit user, look for Ideate BIMLink and Ideate Explorer for Revit. 

    If you’re considering some custom code to add a feature or function to your application, check out the Autodesk Exchange site first. Chances are there may be someone out there who’s already done the work for you!


    Matt Miyamoto, P.E.
    Ideate AEC Application Specialist

    Matt is a licensed Civil Engineer in the state of Hawaii. Matt obtained a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and has 7 years of private sector design experience which he applies in his role as an application specialist with Ideate, Inc. His project experience includes residential and commercial site development, private and public sewer, water and drainage systems, harbors improvements, and roadway improvements. While in Hawaii, Matt was involved in multidisciplinary projects for City and County agencies, State Departments, the Army COE and private developers. @MattM_PE

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    Thursday, 17 January 2013

    Ideate BIMLink in the Cloud – Now non-Revit Users Can Edit Revit Data Too!

    Posted on 10:00 by Unknown
    A great reason to use Ideate BIMLink for Autodesk Revit is that it allows non-Revit users to contribute to the data side of the model. What do we mean by this? We mean that interior designs or consultants who don’t have Revit can fill out important space and room information such as a finish schedule or the Specified Airflow values using plain ‘ole MS Excel. We mean that the project manager who is busy traveling to job sites can edit the sheet list  information from the job trailer without having to access the project’s .RVT file. Or, maybe it’s the building engineer, onsite, who is reading barcodes from each installed piece of mechanical equipment and wants that data stored back into the as-built model. Ideate BIMLink is the perfect solution for all these scenarios.

    How does it work? We’ll use the example of filling out the manufacture and model number for the mechanical equipment or specialty equipment. Bob is the engineer who owns Revit and uses a workstation, while Sue is the general contractor completing the as-built information. Sue is onsite with an iPad walking through the building to confirm each piece of data. Here’s the basic procedure:
    1. Bob exports the list of mechanical equipment from the Revit model using Ideate BIMLink.
    2. Bob saves the .XLSX file into Dropbox.
    3. Sue uses CloudOn with Dropbox on her iPad and sees the file Bob just posted.
    4. Sue opens the .XLSX and walks around to verify the Manufacture and model number for each piece of equipment that’s actually installed.
    5. Some of the model number fields are missing or incorrect.  Sue edits them on the iPad.
    6. When Sue is done Bob uses Ideate BIMLink to import the edited .XLSX data and push it back into Revit.
    7. Now the Revit file data matches the as-built information and the owner gets a high-quality deliverable!
    Give it a try; you can download a free Trial version of Ideate BIMLink and both Dropbox and CloudOn are free Apps for the iPad and iPhone. Note that CloudOn also works with Google Drive and with SkyDrive accounts.


      Glynnis Patterson is a registered architect and the Director of Software Development at Ideate, Inc. In a previous life Glynnis spent many hours looking at blueprints with a scale, highlighters, and a scratch pad to develop detailed cost estimates.

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