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Showing posts with label Standards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Standards. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Docuflow v3.0

From the Autodesk App Store:

Publish all your documents in one operation.
Now it's easy to get high-quality PDF, DWG, DWF, DWFx, IFC and drawing list from the same tool. Just select your sheets and you are good to go. Docuflow makes your drawing issues quick and simple.

Intelligent
Docuflow detects sheet sizes and orientation and takes care of all the complicated stuff. All your documents are exported in 1 operation exactly like the sheets in Revit. You no longer to spend time doing the manual selection of sheets, matching paper sizes or orientation and separating print jobs.

Easily select your Sheets
Finding your sheets it is now quicker with project revision sorting. In additional to alphabetical order Docuflow sorts by revision that groups the drawings inside the last revision, making your selection much simpler.

Drawing list included
A proper drawing issue is not complete without a revised drawing list. Docuflow communicates with Archigrafix Reports (sold separately) to generate on the fly your drawing list in PDF format.

Speed
Docuflow is one of the fastest document publishers for Revit. Built from the ground up. No annoying saving dialogs prompting for filenames. Docuflow publishes PDFs around 65% faster than Bluebeam.

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Ideate BIMLink v2020.0

From the Autodesk App Store:

Ideate BIMLink is the Autodesk® Revit® add-on that lets you access and edit Building Information Modeling (BIM) data quickly and easily to save you hours—even weeks—of valuable time. Ideate BIMLink helps BIM and VDC managers, project leaders, facility managers, and users analyze, extract, and edit important BIM data. With Ideate BIMLink, you can pull and push volumes of information from a Revit file— Architecture, Structure, & MEP— into user-friendly Microsoft® Excel® with speed, ease, and accuracy. A few of the tasks supported by Ideate BIMLink include:
  • Edit Schedule data (and non-schedule data)
  • Create Unplaced Rooms, Unplaced Spaces, Unplaced Areas, Unplaced Sheets, Schedule Keys, Revision Sequences, Generic Models and Masses from an existing Excel file
  • Rename all custom families and types to align with Project Standards
  • Manage Sheets, Views, and Revisions to streamline production and reduce errors during project delivery.
  • Perform advanced quality control tasks.
  • Prepare and manage the Revit model for export to COBie data drops 

The average Ideate BIMLink user is saving 20 hours per project on a broad range of data management tasks. Ideate BIMLink is the indispensable tool that gives you unprecedented access to Revit data – the “I” in BIM. This Trial download limits the amount of data that can be exported to twenty-five (25) rows. After 14 days the software can be used in Demo mode only, which prohibits the import and export functions.

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Revit Project Organizer – Includes 248 Tools

From the NET Spider Studio:

Revit Project Organizer 2019

Revit Project Organizer 2019 works with Revit 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016.  It helps organize Revit projects in many different and good ways.

It provides many tool bundles such as Creators, Duplicators, Loaders, Placers, Copiers, Adjusters, Finders, Inspectors, Editors, ReNumbers, Flippers, ReNamers, Exporters, Importers, View Cleaners, Sheet Cleaners, Schedule Cleaners, UnPlaced Cleaners, UnUsed Cleaners, UnExpected Cleaners, Cloud Cleaners, Link Cleaners, File Cleaners, Purgers, Transporters, Closers, Element Gadgets, Text Gadgets, Group Gadgets, Suite Organizer, Selection Organizer, and Material Organizer. It also provides some other nice tools such as Files Upgrader, Events Monitor, Fonts Setter, Failures Handler, Problems Isolator, Issues Fixer, Dialogs Suppressor, Elements Hider/Seeker/Browser, Document Locator, Aliases Namer, and so on in a single package.


It has 248 tools in total so far: (25 for Setup tools, 48 for Process tools, 79 for Refinement tools, 40 for Cleanup tools, 51 for Gadgets, and 5 for Information)

Friday, February 22, 2019

Product Roundup – Free Autodesk BIM Interoperability Tools

From the Autodesk BIM Interoperability Tools website:

AUTODESK BIM INTEROPERABILITY TOOLS

These free Autodesk apps are designed to help architects, engineers, contractors and owners with their Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows.

Autodesk Classification Manager for Revit
Assign multiple classification systems to multiple elements with a single click

Autodesk Enhanced DWG Exporter for Revit
Improves the DWG Export from Revit, helps overcome a number of limitations of the built-in DWG Export feature, and makes the management of configurations simple and straightforward

Tuesday, February 5, 2019

Guardian v1.4.0

From the IconicBIM website:

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January 30, 2019

1.4.0 Release Notes

We believe that the best software is easy to use but the hardest to create.  This release is a perfect example of that.  Guardian’s new Suggestions Framework uses behind-the-scenes data to make logical suggestions for certain actions.  In your quest for effective and enforced standards at your firm, we invite you to consider the substantial effect these new features will have on your processes!

Guardian making a mapping suggestion for a duplicate text type.

Sunday, January 20, 2019

Docuflow v2.7

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 2.7, 1/17/2019
  • The advanced filename rules for PDF and DWG can now also combine sheet shared parameters tags for even more flexibility.
  • Added compatibility for the latest PDF printer to ensure that the PDF orientation always matches the Revit sheet.
  • Fix error when the default print range was set to something else than sheets in the Print Dialog would prevent Docuflow to print.

Description

Publish all your documents in one operation.
Now it's easy to get high-quality PDF, DWG, IFC and drawing list from the same tool. Just select your sheets and you are good to go. Docuflow makes your drawing issues quick and simple.

Intelligent
Docuflow detects sheet sizes and orientation and takes care of all the complicated stuff. All your documents are exported in 1 operation exactly like the sheets in Revit. You no longer to spend time doing the manual selection of sheets, matching paper sizes or orientation and separating print jobs.

Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Ideate BIMLink November 2018 Update

From the Ideate Software website:

What's New with Ideate BIMLink for Revit

The latest improvements to Ideate BIMLink include features that are added to our 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016 versions. See below for a summary of some of new features in the November 2018 release or check out our YouTube What's New playlist.

General Improvements

Easier to Use

Editing just got a lot easier with Ideate BIMLink. In this version we have added the ability to edit the data directly within Ideate BIMLink, skipping the requirement to export first to Excel.


Friday, November 16, 2018

Monday, September 3, 2018

NameConvention – Enforce Naming Standards

From the Autodesk App Store:

Digitteck® NameConvention™ – Whether you are working on small or large-scale projects, naming convention will always be an important component of your work. Naming conventions and standards are required whether you implement BIM or not. Variability and inconsistencies often lead to confusion, error, and loss of time.

With this app you can easily apply naming conventions to your elements. You get a great overview of the names currently used in your project and ensure that they are properly set.

The features “find and replace” and “wrap” allow making group changes for a selection or all elements in a table.

With the key features “export to Excel” and “export Lexicon to Excel” you can make changes in Excel or even define a set of possible values for an element (one example is to create data for multiple languages).

You can easily save your changes into the Autodesk® Revit® model by clicking the Sync button.

Sunday, November 26, 2017

Graitec PowerPack for Advance Steel

From the Autodesk App Store:

GRAITEC PowerPack for Advance Steel is packed with tools and utilities that deliver more functionality, better control and more automation for Advance Steel users across all industries.

This is the Full version -12 month Desktop Subscription. Purchasing a subscription for PowerPack for Advance Steel entitles the user to run both PowerPack for Advance Steel 2016 and PowerPack for Advance Steel 2017. Please use this link to access and install the PowerPack for Advance Steel 2016. 

A 5-day Free Trial version of the PowerPack for Advance Steel 2017 is available on the Store here! 

*IMPORTANT: This app is FREE if you have purchased subscription for Autodesk Advance Steel from GRAITEC - please contact GRAITEC for more details* 

Multi-year, network and bulk subscription options available from GRAITEC direct: graitec.com/world

Languages available on installation: English, French, Czech, German, Italian, Polish and Romanian. 

Saturday, December 19, 2015

RVT 2 DWG (PWGSC NCA) – Convert Revit Model to Standardized AutoCAD Files

From the Autodesk App Store...

The RVT 2 DWG Suite is a line of conversion utilities (which includes processes as well) that allows users to convert an Autodesk® Revit® Model to a standard AutoCAD® DWG file format. We use the Revit Export to CAD option that is built into Revit of course, but our conversion utilities much further and have been customized for different Federal and Provincial Government Dept. and for commercial clients usage as well.

Who needs it? Anyone using Revit to create AutoCAD drawing files that need to meet a specific DWG CAD Standard. It does not matter if you are the Architect, Structural, Mechanical or Electrical engineering or if you are an Interior Designer/Decorator. If you’ve committed to Revit because of its efficiency over AutoCAD (or other CAD platforms) for production drafting, then you need to finish it up by adding RVT 2 DWG. It will save you countless days of labor!


If you need to convert to DWG, but with a different company standard that is not listed below, give us a call, we would be happy to adjust our software to meet your requirements!

RVT 2 DWG is currently available in 3 different Standards, PWGSC Atlantic, PWGSC NCA and NS DTI (Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure).

Thursday, December 17, 2015

RVT 2 DWG (PWGSC Atlantic) – Convert Revit Model to Standardized AutoCAD Files

From the Autodesk App Store...

The RVT 2 DWG Suite is a line of conversion utilities (which includes processes a well) that allows users to convert a Autodesk® Revit® Model to a standard AutoCAD® DWG file format. We use the Revit Export to CAD option that is built into Revit of course, but our conversion utilities goes much further and has been customized for different Federal and Provincial Government Dept. and for commercial clients usage as well.

Who needs it? Anyone using Revit to create AutoCAD drawing files that need to meet a specific DWG CAD Standard. It does not matter if you are the Architect, Structural, Mechanical or Electrical engineering or if you are an Interior Decorator. If you’ve committed to Revit because of its efficiency over AutoCAD (or other CAD platforms) for production drafting, then you need to finish it up by adding RVT 2 DWG. It will save you countless days of labor!

If you need to convert to DWG, but with a different company standard that is not listed below, give us a call, we would be happy to adjust our software to meet your requirements!

RVT 2 DWG is currently available in 3 different Standards, PWGSC Atlantic, PWGSC NCA and NS DTI (Nova Scotia Department of Transportation and Infrastructure).

How does it work? The conversion is a 3 step process. The first part of the process (before creating the model) is to learn how to use the pre-built Revit families (such as TitleBlocks, Elevation, Section and Details Markers and other, all included as part of the conversion utility – specific to your standard) which will be compliant to the standard that you are trying to convert to. The second part makes use of the Revit Export to CAD conversion utility to map the Revit object to AutoCAD layers, as close as possible based on the standard you are trying to export to. However, as you know, Revit messes up the Text Styles, Dimensions Styles, layers and many other items. So there is a 3rd step. The third and final step is our conversion utility (which can be run in batch mode using ScriptPro) which takes the DWG file (created by Revit) and cleans up the messy DWG, in order for your DWG file to pass any QA check.



Installation Support is FREE. Product support can be purchased separately.

Once the software has been purchased and payment has been processed, you will receive an e-mail with an Install Key based on the e-mail address of the user that did the purchase. The Install Key is required to install and run the software.

Pre-Requisit: At the end of your cleanup process and before submitting to PWGSC, you will need to run the PWGSC QA check. And since a portion of "passing" the QA Check requires the PWGSC Color Tables for printing, this means you will need to download and install the FREE PWGSC Atlantic, CAD Standard software (see link below).

apps.autodesk.com/ACD/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com:pwgscatlanticregiontools40:en

About This Version
Version 1.2013.400, 12/17/2015
Works with Revit and AutoCAD 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016

The RVT 2 DWG (PWGSC Atlantic) add-in is brought to you by Atlantic CAD Solutions Inc and is priced at 600.00 USD. There's more information available on the Autodesk App Store.

Friday, November 13, 2015

Free Autodesk Model Checker Configurator for Revit

From the BIM Interoperability Tools website...

This free tool will allow you to make your own configuration files for the Autodesk Model Checker for Revit.

Features
Build Your Own Configurations for the Autodesk Model Checker for Revit.


Utilize Dozens of Free Samples in order to build the checks you need.

COMING SOON: A new Wizard Interface will build your checks for you by answering a few simple questions.

Installation
Use this link to download the installation file  (1.8MB)

Sample Files
These sample configurations can be used to help you build your own configuration files. For more information about each of these checks, be sure to visit our Resources page.

Download all of the configuration files as a single .ZIP file  (20KB)
Element Check 1: no elements placed
Element Check 2: elements not within Rooms or Spaces
Element Check 3: duplicate elements
Element Check 4: duplicate parameter values in elements
Element Check 5: parameter does not exist in elements
Element Check 6: parameter has blank value in elements
Element Check 7: parameter with a particular format in elements
Element Check 8: parameter equal to zero in elements
Element Check 9: parameter less than the specified minimum value in elements
Element Check 10: select all elements then exclude specific elements
Element Check 11: parameter does not exist in types

Free Autodesk Model Checker for Revit

From the BIM Interoperability Tools website...

This free tool will automatically check your Revit models based on aset of BIM requirements and generate a compliance report.

Features
Multiple configurations are included: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, COBie, overall reporting, and many more coming soon.


Instant feedback is given via reports as project teams run checks at any point to gauge their compliance.


Direct model integration allows reports to be saved in, and travel with, the models for all to review.


Installation
Use these links to download the installation file depending on your version of Revit.

Revit 2016
1.2MB
Download

Revit 2015
1.2MB
Download

Revit 2014
1.2MB
Download

Revit 2013
1.2MB
Download

Quick Start Guide
Need to get started quickly?  Download the Quick Start Guide here.  This simple PDF contains embedded videos walking you through the features, step-by-step.  (185MB)

Sample Files
These sample models can be used to test the features of the Model Checker:

Sample model in Revit 2016 format  (81MB)
Sample model in Revit 2015 format  (80MB)
Sample model in Revit 2014 format  (69MB)
Sample model in Revit 2013 format  (76MB)

Help Pages
The Model Checker includes a detailed Help system that can be accessed here.

The free Autodesk Model Checker for Revit is brought to you by Autodesk and CADD Microsystems. There's more information available on the BIM Interoperability Tools website.

Editor's Note: Expect a detailed review of the Autodesk Model Checker for Revit here on Revit Add-ons soon.

Related:
Product Review – Autodesk Model Checker for Revit and Autodesk Model Checker Configurator for Revit
Autodesk's New BIM Interoperability Tools Website Features 4 Free Apps
Roundup – Autodesk Product Enhancements for Revit 2016

Friday, April 17, 2015

Owner Standards Check Add-in for Revit

From the Autodesk Exchange Apps website...

The app provides a tool to check the model for formatting compliance with company or owner standards.  The tool consists of Quick Checks - a series of basic checks for project information (file name, project name, project number, address) and Format Checks - more detailed review of model elements to ensure compliance with standard shared parameters, omniclass numbers, family naming, workset naming, floor plan names, and wall types.  The tool will generate a report for each Format Check that can be exported to .csv format for review.




The Owner Standards Check add-in is brought to you by SouthEastern Technical Services, LLC and is priced at USD 50.00.

There's more information available on the Autodesk Exchange Apps website.

Friday, November 15, 2013

Free Revit Model Checker from CADD MicroSystems

"Deliver more accurate and compliant projects with our free Revit Model Checker, specifically designed to help you with your US Army Corps of Engineers projects.

"The Revit Model Checker v3.0 is an add-in for Revit 2013 and 2014 that automatically checks Revit models and helps with verifying compliance to Attachment F.  With more than 125 different checks and the ability to batch check against multiple models and their corresponding links, the Revit Model Checker v3.0 assists the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its design consultants in providing high quality Revit models for all of its BIM projects.

"Download the Revit Model Checker v3.0 and the Quick Start guide for free."



This free add-in may be downloaded from the CADD MicroSystems website.