CS ArtisanRV – Cloud-Based BIM for Landscape

From the CS Design Software website:

CS ArtisanRV

The first Cloud-based software solution to enable landscape Revit® integration

BIM for landscape

CS ArtisanRV: The FIRST web-integrated landscape BIM software for Revit®

Launched in 2015, CS ArtisanRV enables the landscape professional to fully embrace Building Information Modelling, offering specialist BIM for landscape tools to collaborate with the industry leading Revit® solution.

Helix – Convert Sketchup To Revit

From the EvolveLAB website:

Convert Sketchup To Revit

We are excited to introduce to you Helix, the first Sketchup To Revit tool that converts Sketchup faces and components to Revit walls, doors, windows, roofs, and curtainwalls without the use of dynamo.  The components are fully schedulable and use your template and your content.  Simply map your sketchup file using the Helix interface, and send your geometry over to Revit as real Revit information.

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Helix is brought to you by EvolveLAB. It's priced from US $1,500.00 to US $2,500.00.

There's more information available on the EvolveLAB website.

Free Mosa Converter – Import from the Mosa Pattern Generator

From the Autodesk App Store:

Make your contemporary interior design more realistic and easier to create with the Mosa Pattern Generator. The Mosa Pattern Generator allows you to make endless combinations with new and existing wall and floor patterns. You are free to choose from all available formats, grids, textures, and colors. The patterns can be fully integrated into standard design and construction software packages. Your sketch is instantly transformed into a feasible and personalized design.

Whether your design is complex or simple, geometric or rhythmic, or demure or bold: whatever the room calls for, you can adjust and compare patterns and even adjust tiles individually. The designs can be easily exported to SketchUp, Autodesk® AutoCAD®, Autodesk® Revit®, and other BIM and CAD software. This makes it even easier to present your ideas in an attractive and appealing way.

The Mosa Pattern Generator precisely calculates the amount, format, and percentages of the required tiles. It also generates a working plan with instructions for the tiler. Moreover, it combines the latest modern web-based techniques, allowing you to work in real-time. A floor or wall can be drawn into a photograph and includes that realistic gloss.

The Mosa Converter lets you import the information from the Mosa Pattern Generator directly into your Revit model. All dimensional, visual, and technical data is imported at once and with a few steps your tile surface is set up and you are ready to create floors and walls into your model. All basic information is included in the system family, and all other information is available via the link in the system parameters.

Free Mosa Pattern Generator – Make Endless Tile Wall and Floor Patterns

From the Mosa website:

Creative freedom

Make your contemporary interior design more realistic and easier to create with the Mosa Pattern Generator. The Pattern Generator allows you to make endless combinations with new and existing wall and floor patterns. You are free to choose from all available formats, grids, textures, and colours. The patterns can be fully integrated into standard design and construction software packages. Your sketch is instantly transformed into a feasible and personalized design.

Copy Sheets

From the Autodesk App Store:

The tool is designed to copy sheets including the Viewport.

This tool will duplicate the needed viewports for the new sheets, saving hundreds of hours used in setting the new sheets and adjust the viewports.

Boomerang – Drive Element Properties from Excel

From the Autodesk App Store:

Use Boomerang to add sheets and rooms, to convert Autodesk® Navisworks® clash tests into families, to create topography and to create Points in a Conceptual Massing Model from an Excel sheet.

Simply link Excel columns and rows with Autodesk® Revit® element properties.

For example, create sheets in a Revit project by connecting Excel column numbers with Revit sheet numbers and Excel column names with Revit sheet names. Convert Navisworks clash reports into Revit families by simply assigning XYZ values and text parameters to Generic Models.

Use Boomerang to:

• Add Sheets
• Add Rooms
• Add Reference Points in a Conceptual Massing Model
• Convert Navisworks clash into Revit families
• Create Topography

Revizto Version 4.4

From the Revizto website:

Revizto 4.4 is now LIVE!

15 Jun, 2017

It gives us great pleasure to announce that Revizto 4.4 is now available for download from our website!

Our team has invested a great deal of time and efforts to develop this version to provide project teams with powerful and more connected solution to BIM project coordination and collaboration.

In addition to the significantly improved interface, users will benefit from long-awaited features – visibility control of linked models, color coding, and phases from Revit.

What’s new in Revizto 4.4 release:

• Ability to color code links, categories and levels. New "Objects" dialog. 
• Visibility control of linked models and individual objects. 
• Phases support from Revit.
• Tag management system for the Issue Tracker.
• Clickable links on sheets.
• Console app for getting XLS reports from the Issue Tracker.
• Ability to attach new file formats to issues. The complete list of supported formats: pdf, txt, csv, xls, xlsx, doc, docx, jpg, png.
• Interface improvement. 3D tab: reconfigured toolbar.
• Brand new installer. Minor updates will come through as patches, containing only the differences and therefore being much less in size.
• Rhino support (direct plugin in Rhino).

Free Webinar Jun 16: Digital Collaboration in Construction

From the registration website:

Digital collaboration in construction: Increasing productivity and enabling new ways of working

Friday 16 June 2017, 11:00 AM - 10:00 AM GMT

Building would like to invite you to a live audio webinar, 'Digital collaboration in construction: Increasing productivity and enabling new ways of working', in association with Bluebeam.
Join industry experts who will give their own first-hand experience of integrating digital collaboration in their own practice and using it to improve productivity.


Attendees will learn how to use digital collaboration to:

• Share information digitally and allow for communication that is more efficient
• Improve decision making by being more efficient when collaborating in real-time
• Decrease costs and reduce errors
• Break down barriers to communications and improve workflows
• Improve flexibility, making it easier to operate globally and collaborate with smaller firms
• Meet BIM requirements by collaborating digitally in a common data environment whilst streamlining workflows

ArchSmarter's Top 10 Revit Apps for 2017

Yesterday we posted about Michael Kilkelly's poll of best Revit apps. The ArchSmarter guru has now published his top 10 list. Click on over to have a look:

http://archsmarter.com/revit-apps-2017/

Free Webinar Jun 15: Trying Not To Suck At Computational Design

From the registration website:

Trying Not To Suck At Computational Design

Thu, Jun 15, 2017 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT

DESCRIPTION OF TALK

Choosing how to implement Computational Design in your projects can be as difficult as understanding why you might need it in the first place. Picking out bad computational design from the good stuff can be even harder. In this webinar we’ll dive into some examples of good and less good computationally designed architecture to try to understand what makes it worth while.  Additionally, we’ll dive into a simple but powerful grasshopper script that not only takes a well known building with some less than great computational design and makes it better, but the script will help us understand how we can start to leverage computational design to work for us. This webinar is for beginner-intermediate grasshopper ability levels, but this is more about understanding why we use this tool than what it is and how to use it.

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There's more information available on the registration website.

What's Hot in Revit and Navisworks Add-ons for May 2017

With "What's Hot", at about the middle of each month, we take a look back at the preceding month to see which posts published during that month received the most pageviews.

Last month we published our highest monthly number of posts ever, 110, and we received our second highest monthly pageview total, 59,224. Thank you readers!

All-time pageviews for Revit Add-ons

We're sure that our coverage of Navisworks add-ins for the first time helped both our post and pageview totals. In fact, our #2 performing post for the month was Navisworks-related, as was another that just missed making the cut (that one was Selection Set Creator).

Vote Now for Your Favorite Revit App(s) for ArchSmarter's Annual List of the 10 Best

Michael Kilkelly of ArchSmarter is holding a poll to determine his annual selection of the 10 best Revit apps. The survey couldn't be easier:

Here's the link to the poll:

https://kilkellymj.typeform.com/to/MJ6Uic

Take a few moments to vote for your favorite(s) today!

The results are in! Check them out on the ArchSmarter website.

Family + Detail Warehouse (F+DW)

From the ArchVision website:

June 5, 2017
By Randall Stevens

When we launched Detail Warehouse in late 2015 our goal was to provide an extensive collection of native-built Revit details perfect for starting or bolstering your own internal library. The library boasts over 27,500 door, foundation, roof and window details across 50 sub-categories. Also included in the collection are nearly 1000 ready-to-use Revit Components which have been very popular.

The popularity of the components prompted us to continue to add additional Revit Families throughout 2016 including wood screws and sleeve anchors, concrete anchors and a comprehensive collection of AISC Steel Shapes improving over the OOTB (out of the box) content that ships with Revit.

Free Revit Project Template Assessments through June 30

From the EvolveLAB website:

Can I look at your Revit template?

I know it's super frustrating and time consuming to not have a good Revit template. Because of this, I recently published a post and video on how to make your Revit template rock.

Here is the link to check it out - evolvebim.com/single-post/2017/05/18/Make-Your-Revit-Template-Rock

Below are the topics that were covered

• View Templates
• Filters
• Landing Pages
• Schedules
• Resource Files
• Tags

Want an assessment of your Revit template?  Shoot me an email or give me a call, and I'll be happy to look at it for you at no charge.

-Bill

bill.allen@evolvelab-inc.com
Contact: 720-417-8463

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There's more information available on the EvolveBIM website.

BOM to Excel Version 2.1

From the Autodesk App Store:

About This Version

Version 2.1.0, 6/13/2017

• Better handling of Materials
• Performance enhancements
• Grouping and totaling upgrades
• Improved layout and display
• Bug Fixes

Description

Stop wasting hours manually creating BOM reports from Revit.
Spend more time working on what matters.

• Use our app to automatically create material lists from your Revit models.
• Immediately export BOMs, reports, estimates and quantity takeoffs
• Add cost parameters in Revit and get instant cost estimates and quotes directly from the source.