If you need to use the BIM Collaboration Format and you are using Revit this Add-Ins might be what you are looking for.
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BCF Add-Ins for Revit
If you need to use the BIM Collaboration Format and you are using Revit this Add-Ins might be what you are looking for.
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Splitting Up Revit Models
What criteria would you use to decide if you are going to split or not your Revit Models? And if you decide you are going to do it, how are you going to do it?Show me more...
BIM Thoughts and Conclusions from UK's National Construction Contracts and Law Survey 2013
The recently published NBS report has some insights on the real BIM use in UK's projects
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BCF: BIM Collaboration Format
BCF is the format that might become standard to share issues found in BIM models from one platform to another
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Revit Interference Check
Check for interfering / clashing elements in your model directly in Revit.Català - Castellano - Deutsch
Revit has a functionality to check for elements that are interfering with each other. This might be used to check interferences when collaborating between consultants (Architect, MEP Engineer, Structural Engineer, etc) or simply to check that the model you build has no interferences that could cause unwanted results. The functionality, of course is called "interference check".
To run it, simply go to the Collaborate Tab --> Coordination Panel --> Interference Check --> Run Interference Check.
You should be now at the interference check interface, where you can select the elements you want to use to check interferences. Select a type or types of elements on the left and another type or types on the right and click OK.
If there are interferences (i.e. those elements collide with each other) you will get a report listing those interferences like the one I am showing below.
Having this report, you can either select an object and click on Show to see the object, or you can also export the report to have a reference list of potential things to be solved / modified in the model. An exported report (HTML) looks like this.
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MS Office: Collaborate using Google Docs
Use Google Docs collaboration features from your MS Office desktop interface.Català - Castellano - Deutsch
Collaboration is one of the key words in my opinion to improve efficiency. It might be collaboration between team members in the same office, collaboration between members of the same company sitting in different locations or collaboration between consultants to produce common documents.
Collaboration is not only important when we talk about producing drawings or models or BIM. It is also very important when producing documents where more than one stakeholder has to contribute in their production. I am talking about spreadsheets with area calculations or word documents containing technical specifications and so on.
Google Docs is a collaboration tool by Google that allows this sort of multi-party edit and sharing of documents. It can handle spreadsheets, word documents and presentations. In the business environment though, MS Office is the leader in creating this sort of documents, so many might not want to use Google Docs to share their docs because they are used to the better functionality and editing features of the Microsoft proprietary software package. But soon this might change.
There is a new tool to use the best of both platforms. It is called OffiSync and it is intended to allow you to use MS Office desktop programs to create and edit your documents and to use Google Doc sharing and collaboration features to share them and edit them together with your collaborators. See the intro video below.
OffiSync can be downloaded here. There is a free version and a Premium one with different level of features. Try it. Better collaboration is the future.
via Geeks.cat
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AutoCAD on the Cloud: Project Butterfly
AutoCAD goes cloudy! The future is here!Català - Castellano - Deutsch
I just learned through Revit3D.com of the existence of something called project butterfly. What is it? It is basically AutoCAD running on a web browser.
One of the latest tends in software development is to turn regular Programs into programs that can run "on the cloud". Run on the cloud means that you don´t need to install any other software other than a web browser, and that the files are stored on a public server, not in your hard drive or intranet.
For many years I have been using Google Docs, which allow you to create Word and Excel Type of files (the functionalities are less than with MS Office or Open Office) and the files can be edited collaboratively by different people.
Well, this has now arrived to AutoCAD. With Project Butterfly you can upload a file to the cloud, share it with collaborators/consultants and edit it without even having AutoCAD installed in the computer. Of course, do not expect the speed and easy of use of "real" AutoCAD, but for small corrections and collaboration, it seems like an awesome idea.See a snapshot of the Project Butterfly Interface (click the image to enlarge it)
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You can read more on the Autodesk labs blog and try Project Butterfly here.
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