BIMThoughts

This week we talk with Bob Bell.   In this episode we talk about Revit, Electrical, AutoCAD MEP and Bob’s new role as the Chairman for RTC / BiLT North America. We also say goodbye to Carla, she is taking a break from BIMThoughts for a bit to catch up on her new job, new town and everything else in her world. I wish her the very best and hope to have her back on BIMThoughts soon.

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Bill and Jason talk about podcasting and share some tips on cleaning up AutoCAD Drawings for use in your Revit and AutoCAD projects.

Show Links

PodCADing website

Jason’s LinkedIn Profile

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About Jason Carter

Jason is a CAD Support Specialist with extensive experience in the Oil and Gas industry. Involved in providing the CAD Support needs for multiple design disciplines simultaneously. Responsible for CAD environment customization, specification entry, CAD work processes and standards development. Background in process piping design.

Specialized in supporting AutoCAD, AutoPLANT, CADWorx, ProCAD, CloudWorx and NavisWorks.

Bill and Anthony talk about his new position at Autodesk, Generative Design, Project Quantum.

Show Notes:

Too busy to write them down.   Let me know in the comments if you came here looking for them.

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Bill talks with Jeff Pinheiro “The Revit Kid” and we talk about his year in review, using models in construction and rendering. We also talk about what we are doing different this year to get stuff done.

Show Notes:

The Revit Kid’s blog

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About Jeff

Jeffrey is a registered architect in the state of Connecticut and has ten years of experience in varying roles throughout the industry. Jeffrey has designed and constructed an array of building types from small residential additions to multi-million dollar hospitals. Jeffrey began his professional career at the age of 16 working in a local architecture firm and continued gaining valuable experience at one of the largest architectural firms in the state.

Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Jeffrey holds a Master of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science (Architecture) from the University of Hartford. Additionally, he obtained associate degrees in Architecture and Construction Management from Norwalk Community College.

Jeffrey is a leader in the industry when it comes to the use of BIM (Building Information Modeling) and technology. He has spoken and taught classes at national conferences and is the creator of The Revit Kid.com (a worldwide resource on all things Revit and BIM related). Additionally, Jeffrey holds the position as BIM Manager of the largest BIM construction management firms.

Kristina and Bill talk with Bill Allen, we discuss Iterative design (ID), Generative Design (GD), and Artificial intelligence. What changes will we see and how this will affect our current designs.  Kristina asks where we find all this great information, and we struggle to answer.

Show Notes:

Bill Allen

Bill Allen’s session at AU that inspired us to have this episode.

EvolveLAB

Ruvo Brain Center

Grasshopper

Humming Bird

Dynamo

Iterative design

Generative Design

Artificial intelligence

Project Fractal

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About Enscape

Enscape™ is the world’s only VR and real-time rendering plugin for Revit. Simply start Enscape with one click and walk through your fully rendered project within seconds – no uploading to cloud or exporting to other programs required! All changes in Revit are immediately available to evaluation in Enscape. Explore different design options and present your projects to clients. With the option to create a standalone file, you can send an Enscape file to your clients or colleagues and demonstrate your project. Enscape has become a standard application in projects worldwide at companies like Foster + Partners or Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF).

About Bill Allen

Bill Allen is the Co-Founder and Partner of EvolveLAB BIM Consulting. He has over a decade of experience managing technology for buildings in the AEC industry for cutting edge firms. Bill has experience lecturing on staff as a College Instructor for the University of Nebraska Omaha and regularly speaks at such conferences as Autodesk University and the Central States BIM Workshop. Bill served on the BIM Board of Omaha, Central States Revit Workshop Board, and is currently the co-organizer of the Rocky Mountain Building Information Society.

Carla Edwards, Carl Storms and Bill Debevc talk about their recent adventures are Autodesk University.  We talk Good, Bad and indifferent things that we experienced this year.   We also talk about where we thing the industry is headed.

Show Notes:

Carl’s Blog: The BIMsider

Carl’s Company Website: IMAGINiT Technologies

Mavic Pro Drone

AutoCAD Wikipedia

Revit Wikipedia

Autodesk Fractal

Hockey Stick Effect

Al Gore Inventor of the Internet

Leica BLK 360

Prometheus Movie

Prometheus Devices

Kickstarter mini drone you throw

Project IQ

Paul F. Aubin’s class at AU

Racel Williams

Brian Levendowski, PE from CTC

 

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About Carl Storms – Senior Applications Expert

IMAGINiT Technologies

Drawing on his nearly 20 years of experience in architecture, engineering, and construction, Carl provides a practical and well-rounded understanding of building information modeling (BIM) to clients. He’s worked in residential and commercial architecture, as well as construction and has over five years of teaching experience at the collegiate and industry level. Beyond that, he’s also done a bit of sales and marketing which aid him in providing the business case for BIM to clients as well as helping them make the most of their collaboration, coordination and design tools and processes.

Through implementations, instruction, mentoring, seminar presentations, whitepapers and more, Carl assists clients with the adoption of design technology and BIM processes. As someone who truly enjoys the process of building information modeling, Carl spreads his love of all things BIM via Twitter @theBIMsider, on his Blog www.thebimsider.com, or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/theBIMsider.

Carla Edwards and Bill Debevc talk with Paul F. Aubin and  Silviu Stoian about Reality Capture at the International Reality Capture Workshop in the ancient City of Volterra,  Italy.  We talk about using Drones and LiDAR as well as other technologies used to capture Volterra from the city, building and object level.

Here is some more information about the acquisition and registration process.

The project was captured using 2 Faro X330 scanners. Photos were captured for every scan location to add color to data. Approximately 450 individual scans were done during the 2 week workshop, and covered the interior and exterior of the Volterra International Residential College, the ruins for the Roman Theater, the Medieval Gate and the San Felice Fountain, the 3000 year old Etruscan Arch, the Palazzo and Piazza die Priori, Piazza San Giovanni and Battistero di San Giovanni Battista, and, of course, all the streets in between these sites.

For the initial registration we used Autodesk Recap. For cleaning moving objects, people, reflected and refracted data we used Leica Cyclone. The same software was used to refine the registration and tie all of the sites together.

Meshes of some of the interior space were developed from point clouds using Recap 360.

We also created incredible models of sculptures, architectural features, and ancient column capitals using Autodesk Remake.

Show Notes:

Paul F. Aubin

Paul’s Twitter: @PaulFAubin

Paul’s LinkeIn: www.linkedin.com/in/paulaubin

Paul at Autodesk University (AU)

Lynda.com

Reality Capture Workshop

Flat Iron Building

Here is a Revit model created from one of the point clouds

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Photos from the workshop

About Paul F. Aubin

Paul F. Aubin is the author of many CAD and BIM book titles including Renaissance Revit and the widely acclaimed “Aubin Academy Master Series” including titles in Revit Architecture, Revit MEP, and AutoCAD Architecture. Paul has also authored several video training titles for lynda.com.

Paul is an independent architectural consultant who travels domestically and abroad lecturing and providing Revit® Architecture and AutoCAD® Architecture implementation, training, and support services. Paul’s involvement in the architectural profession spans 25 years, with experience that includes design, architectural production, CAD management, mentoring, coaching, and training.

He is an active member of the Autodesk user community and is an Autodesk Expert Elite. Paul has been a top-rated speaker at Autodesk University (Autodesk’s annual user convention) for many years. He also speaks regularly at many industry conferences such as the Revit Technology Conference (RTC) in both its Australasia and North American locations and is a top rated National Speaker for the BIM Workshops. His diverse experience in architectural firms, as a CAD manager, and as an educator gives his writing and his classroom instruction a fresh and credible focus. Paul is an associate member of the American Institute of Architects. He lives in Chicago with his wife and three children.

About Silviu Stoian

Silviu plays a key role in the organization to bridge design and construction industries through the use of BIM and Reality Capture technology. One of his main goals at Beck is to help project teams to define constraints and mitigate risk, through collecting and analyzing as-built data.

He is running the Beck’s Virtual Building Group Services from the Atlanta office. Silviu and his team implement and facilitate 3D coordination, support project staff with the use of BIM, maintain BIM standards, and perform 3rd party model and documentation reviews.

He is specialized in documenting existing conditions for facilities using [...]

In this action packed episode of BIMThoughts Carla, Kristina and I talk Autodesk University, and we think this episode is pure AU.   Get it….  AU?  After years of going to AU we decided to share our Tips and Tricks to help you make the best of AU.

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Our Tips and Tricks List:

If a class is instrested in is full, check standby availability at the time.

Calendar invite your backup classes that interest you.

Don’t stay in class the is not meeting expectation.

Scope out rooms and locations ahead of time. Get the lay of the land.

Warm socks, sweaters, warm clothes.

Find an AU Buddy!

Official BIMThoughts Event drink – Moscow Mule

Sign up for extra events, parties

Lots of water, pace yourself.

Get outside and see daylight from time to time

Las Vegas is dry, chapstick, request humidifier

Take a picture of instructor and opening slide for your notes

Say hello to everyone in the conference, they are just as excited to be there and they have something in common with you. Don’t be a buzz kill.

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About Enscape

Enscape™ is the world’s only VR and real-time rendering plugin for Revit. Simply start Enscape with one click and walk through your fully rendered project within seconds – no uploading to cloud or exporting to other programs required! All changes in Revit are immediately available to evaluation in Enscape. Explore different design options and present your projects to clients. With the option to create a standalone file, you can send an Enscape file to your clients or colleagues and demonstrate your project. Enscape has become a standard application in projects worldwide at companies like Foster + Partners or Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF).

Carla, Kristina and I talk Revit 2017.1.  What features are we excited about and what features we need to more about.  We also find out what Kristina has in her pocket for AU.

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Show Notes:

Inside the Factory Revit 2017.1 Goodies

Microsoft Surface Studio WOW video

Mental Canvas Preview Site

DynamoThoughts

Episode Take Aways

Start a Dynamaniacs Group in your office!!

Possible causes for “revit local file incompatible with central file”

jack wire going over ballast or light

dont end task on Revit

Follow twitter and watch for meetup time with BIM Thoughts at AU

About Enscape

Enscape™ is the world’s only VR and real-time rendering plugin for Revit. Simply start Enscape with one click and walk through your fully rendered project within seconds – no uploading to cloud or exporting to other programs required! All changes in Revit are immediately available to evaluation in Enscape. Explore different design options and present your projects to clients. With the option to create a standalone file, you can send an Enscape file to your clients or colleagues and demonstrate your project. Enscape has become a standard application in projects worldwide at companies like Foster + Partners or Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF).

In this action packed episode Tom Whitehead joins Carla and myself to talk about how he picked out new workstations and how to optimize Revit Server.  I think you will be surprised which computer manufacture he picked.

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Show Notes:

T-Mobile captcha from Phil Read.

DynamoThoughts

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About Tom Whitehead

In the past 20 years, Tom Whitehead has worked with rocket scientists, commercial art directors, network engineers, web developers, architects, and structural engineers. He started with Revit in 2008 and has been a BIM evangelist ever since. As a BIM Manager, he provides guidance, troubleshooting, and expertise to the BIM team. In 2013, he was selected to participate in one of Autodesk’s Revit Gunslinger events and is active on RevitForum.org. Tom is an avid camper, loves live music, and lives with his wife and two young children in Portland, Oregon.