Ideate Explorer for Revit - Auditing Key Notes

This was a great question that our Support team fielded last week about Keynotes. Ideate Explorer for Revit can easily handle this kind of request along with finding other hard-to-find items such as Revision Clouds, hidden DWG Imports, Model Lines, Text.

Question: Can Ideate Explorer for Revit tell you where keynotes are used? It would be very handy to see a list with each keynote and all the sheets it’s used on.

Answer: Ideate Explorer for Revit can help you find all the keynotes. Here’s a step-by-step on how to find and review your keynotes.

 

1. Index the “Entire Project” as shown; with Ideate Explorer 2012 this should take less than one minute, even with files that are 250 MB+. 
2. Select the Checkbox next to the “Keynote Tags” as shown. This is the same as selecting every Keynote Tag in the project. 
3. Select “Current Selection” as shown. This will clear the Results window of extraneous information. 
4. Change the View dropdown option from “Category” to “Instance List” as shown. At this point you can double-click on each item and Ideate Explorer for Revit will open up the view for reviewing/editing purposes OR you can export the list. 
5. To Export this list, right-click and select “Export to Excel.”

 

Give it a try! Download a free Trial of Ideate Explorer for Revit. What’s in your RVT?!

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Glynnis Patterson,
N.C.A.R.B. – Director of Services
Glynnis is a Registered Architect and has worked within the BIM industry since 1998. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, she has worked as an architect, educator and construction site manager. Glynnis is currently the Director of Development Services at Ideate, Inc. and continues to work with AEC clients across the nation, developing, and implementing best practices solutions. In her spare time Glynnis is a member of the Morristown Environmental Commission and builds Lego projects. @GVPinNJ

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eLearning – Upcoming Revit Classes

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Searching for Specific Content with Ideate Explorer for Revit

Recently I spoke with a client who was wanting to search for elements within their Revit model that belonged to a level. Through the use of Ideate Explorer for Revit we were able to search in the entire project, for elements that belonged to a Level, and the search was specifically for walls. The following steps are used to find walls in the image:

• Step 1 Indicates that you are looking in the entire Project for the element(s).
• Step 2 Select that you want to look for items on a specific level.
• Step 3 Indicates what is being searched for. (this can be a category, or a keyword such as the word “Brick” in a wall, window, or family name.

Once the item is selected, use the Tools menu to show where the element is located in the project. Happy searching! If you would like to make suggestions on what you would like to see in future releases of Ideate Explorer for Revit send us your ideas.

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Ron Palma
AEC Solutions Application Specialist
Ron has 23+ years of experience in the AEC industry as a designer, lead project designer, trainer and CAD manager. His instructional background includes Autodesk Certified Instructor, trainer, support technician, educator at Portland Community College and Clackamas Community College, and a U.S. Army certified instructor. Follow Ron @RonPalmaAEC.

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Assess the ‘Health’ of Revit Projects Using Ideate BIMLink

During a recent review of a 16 story hospital project modeled in Revit, our Support team found something with potential to cause untold difficulties down the road. The issue would have gone completely unnoticed until problems arose if our tool Ideate BIMLink had not caught it.

The project consists of more than 500 Doors. When we created a Door link using Ideate BIMLink, we found that the ‘Link Properties’ list was showing two ‘Mark’ parameters instead of one. How could this be? The Revit schedule parameter list showed only one ‘Mark’ parameter.

Upon further review, we discovered that the information contained in the ‘Mark’ column was identical in all the Door instances except for those under one particular Door family. We began to investigate that Door family.

When we opened that particular Door family for editing, we found that someone had inserted a duplicate ‘Mark’ parameter into the family. Ideate BIMLink was picking up on the duplicate. Once the duplicate ‘Mark’ parameter was discovered, we could delete to avoid a host of conflicts and issues downstream in the project model.

We routinely use Ideate BIMLink here at Ideate, Inc. to run quality checks on Models as part of our health check service, and it is proving to be quite a useful tool in conducting these checks.

To learn more about Ideate BIMLink, please visit our website: www.ideatebimlink.com

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Shruti Harve,
LEED AP, AEC Solutions Application Specialist
Shruti holds a Master of Science degree in Architectural Computing from University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom and is LEED accredited. Her experience includes working in Architecture and Construction firms in India and the United Kingdom as well as Structural Engineering firms in the Bay Area providing design, 3D modeling and drafting services. At Ideate, Shruti provides training and support for Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, 3ds Max, Ecotect and AutoCAD Architecture.

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eLearning – Upcoming Revit Classes

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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.

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“I Wish We Had Known This Earlier!” Dependent Views: Revit

“I wish we had known this earlier!” Those were the words the design team uttered when I showed them the “Apply Dependent views” tool as part of a Revit Consulting engagement here at Ideate, Inc. The team did not know the tool existed. It can be a real time-saver!

If you are modeling a ten story building in Revit and for plotting purposes, you have to break the views up into multiple parts, you right click on a view and Click: “Duplicate as a Dependent.” You have to do that for every single floor plan, then there are sections and elevations. If you are breaking the view up into four parts… that's right, clicking 4x10=40 times. Then, if the layout, etc. changes, that’s a whole other story!

With the ‘Apply Dependent Views’ tool you can create a set of dependent views for one view and then very easily populate it across other views. See screenshots below:

 

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Shruti Harve,
LEED AP, AEC Solutions Application Specialist
Shruti holds a Master of Science degree in Architectural Computing from University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom and is LEED accredited. Her experience includes working in Architecture and Construction firms in India and the United Kingdom as well as Structural Engineering firms in the Bay Area providing design, 3D modeling and drafting services. At Ideate, Shruti provides training and support for Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, 3ds Max, Ecotect and AutoCAD Architecture.

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