BIMThoughts

In this episode, Bill and Carl chat with Matt Mason, Director of Software Development for Rand Worldwide (parent company of IMAGINiT Technologies). We talk about what’s new in IMAGINiT Clarity 2021, The IMAGINiT Clarity Integration with BIM Track, Matt’s 25 years in CAD-based programming, and even get into a Read the Factory Manual rabbit hole talking about the General Lee, Bill restored for Carl.

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Show Notes

Episode Hashtags: #MyTaskServersAreBiggerThanYourTaskServers

                                       #HappyTires

Here is where you can find Matt on the World Wide Web:

Twitter: @mattmas

LinkedIn: Matt Mason

Check out IMAGINiT Clarity, and what’s new in 2021

Revit / Revit Server 2021 support

More integrations

Google Drive, Procore

Improved BIM 360 integration

More Model Health Metrics features

Model Scoring, Community sharing of anonymous metrics data

Some big-data enhancements for extracting and reporting on data

Check out the BIM Track and IMAGINiT Clarity integration

BIM Track and IMAGINiT Clarity

The Read The Factory Manual YouTube Video of Carl’s General Lee restoration

ERTL Dukes of Hazzard General Lee Restoration

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Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, the BIMThoughts crew have a great chat with Lisa-Marie Mueller a Job Captain and Design Technology Specialist at the Dahlin Group. We talk about C# coding, Dynamo, balancing project work and design technology work (hint it involves working on your own time) and so much more.

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Show Notes

Episode Hashtag: #ImaGenius

Here is where you can find Lisa-Marie on the World Wide Web:

Blog: lisa-marie mueller

Twitter: @lm2_me

LinkedIn: Lisa-Marie Mueller

GitHub: lm2-me

Check out Orkestra by the folks at Data|Shapes for your Dynamo deployments and more.

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The Simply Complex Podcast did an episode on Orkestra with Mostafa, listen HERE.

There is also a video of Orkestra in action in that episode’s show notes.

Resources to help you start coding mentioned in this episode (aside from Google):

The Building Coder

API Docs

Revit API Docs

Boost Your BIM

Python – Revit – Resources

Revit API Development Guide: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

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Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, Bill and Carl have a chat with Gavin Crump about his popular YouTube Channel “The Aussie BIM Guru” as well as his new BIM consultancy BIM Guru.

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Show Notes

Episode Hashtag: #AussieBIMGuru

Here is where you can find Gavin on the World Wide Web:

YouTube: Aussie BIM Guru

YouTube: BIM Guru

Twitter: @AussieBIMGuru

Twitter: @thebimguru

LinkedIn: Gavin Grump

LinkedIn: BIM Guru

GitHub: Gavin Crump (aussieBIMguru)

GitHub: Gavin Crump (bimguru-gavin)

Instagram: thebimguru

Flashback Express – Gavin’s free screen recorder

Camtasia and Premiere Pro – Bill’s video editing programs of choice

Gavin gives shout-outs to John Pierson, Aaron Maller, and The Building Coder himself Jeremy Tammik

Gavin also gives some love to other Sydney based BIM consultants wanting it to be more of a collective BIM consulting market, not a competition based one.

Parametric Monkey and Paul Wintour

RevitCat and Tim Waldock

Gavin also gives a nod to Paul Aubin for his educational style in his videos for LinkedIn Learning.

If you like all the great videos Gavin is doing you can also “Buy Him a Coffee” to show your support.

Here is a link to the “Read the Factory Manual” video Bill was talking about…he restores Carl’s childhood General Lee dinky car!

ERTL Dukes of Hazzard General Lee Restoration

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Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, we review the latest addition to the Ideate Software family, StyleManager. We also get a little sidetracked with a deep discussion about hard candy, chocolate and how bad Lifesavers butterscotch flavour is. Enjoy the Show!

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Show Notes

Episode Hashtag: #SweetAsCandy

Check out Ideate Software on the web

Ideate Software Blog

Ideate Software on Twitter: @IdeateSoftware

Ideate Software on LinkedIn: Ideate Software

Ideate Software on YouTube: Ideate Software

Ideate StyleManager overview:

“Ideate StyleManager addresses the challenges that arise when Revit users load or import content into the model because the corresponding styles automatically come with the content. Proper management of these styles reduces publishing errors and end-user confusion, but the management process in Revit can be time consuming and risky, and errors can dramatically impact the models and production documents.”

Free Trial of Ideate StyleManager can be downloaded HERE.

Why Ideate StyleManager for Revit?

https://youtu.be/KPHtZvu9Xt4

Introduction to Ideate StyleManager for Revit

https://youtu.be/LPSyLf1j498

Hitting a High Note – Tuning your Revit Template with Ideate Software and Brian Mackey

https://youtu.be/rjWOJ9FADnI

Show note: You do have to pick from the list of available options to batch merge, you cannot make up a new one on the fly as mentioned in the episode.

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Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, we talk to Karen Robichaud, Communications Director at Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, about books, your brand, how to market yourself, social media, and generally the less “Techie” side of BIM and AEC.

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Show Notes

Episode Hashtag #NewBonJovi

Check out Karen’s Blog: We Are The Stories We Tell

Karen’s blog has her book lists from 2015 to present

Karen on Twitter: @karenelainer

Karen on LinkedIn: Karen Robichaud

Karen on Instagram: @karenelainer

Check out Karen’s KA Connect 2019 talk.

Orchestrating Cultural Transformation through Communications and Collaboration

The Enron book: Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald

Bill’s Twitter client: Tweetbot (Mac and iOS only)

Check out the Public Library app: Libby

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Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, we interview Buck Davis of BIMBOX. Buck and Bill get hardcore into the computer hardware! Dana and Buck discuss the state of AR/VR in the AECO industry. Plus, we asked the question, In the BIM world do you want a high-end graphics card, or a high-end and less expensive gaming card? That’s just the first half of the episode, have a listen for so much more!

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Show Notes

Episode Hashtag: #whowantstogofast

Check out the BIMBOX

Twitter: @BIMboxUSA

LinkedIn: BIMBOX

Learning about the studio drivers for your Geforce cards.

Essentially turns them into Quatro cards

This gives you access to 1 Billion shades of colour instead of 30 million shades

Which side are you on?

Is AR & VR on the way down, on the rise or?

#TeamBuck on the way down

#TeamDana on the rise

What is your favourite AR/VR medium?

The Wild

Twinmotion

Enscape

Fuzor

Lumion

Yulio

Others?

Do lots of computational design, maybe you need a BIMBOX?

Single-core vs Multi-core processing

Is the value proposition truly there?

Can you, or should you use a portable GPU?

The answer might surprise you

What about working with a kickass desktop and remote access is that a solution?

The answer is we still can’t have our cake and eat it too…

Maybe the answer is an office unit just for the purpose a la Dan Stine?

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Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this special episode, the BIMThoughts crew is joined by Harlan Brumm, Revit Product Manager, Architecture & Construction at Autodesk, and Sasha Crotty, Sr. Product Manager, Revit Platform & Services at Autodesk to talk about what’s new in Revit 2021.

Harlan Brumm

Sasha Crotty

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Show Notes

Slanted Walls and Realistic Views – Dan Stine in AECbytes

Episode Hashtag: #Revit2021

Check out the Autodesk

Revit Twitter: @AutodeskRevit

Sasha Twitter: @sashacrotty

Sasha LinkedIn: Sasha Crotty

Harlan Twitter: @HarlanBrumm

Harlan LinkedIn: Harlan Brumm

Link to the AECbytes Blog by Dan Stine

What’s New in Revit 2021

Link to the Revit Blog

What’s new in Revit 2021

Can you shade a single cell?

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In this episode, the BIMThoughts crew talks about working remotely, the good, the bad, and internet struggles!

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Show Notes

Episode Hashtag: #WFM

Some other blog posts with some Working From Home tips.

Enscape Blog Post – COVID-19: Working From Home (BIM Chapters)

Top 5 Steps to Securely Work from Home by SANS (BIM Chapters)

10 Tips for Working From Home (The BIM Jedi)

10 Best Practices to Support a Remote Workforce – and Ease Stress – During COVID-19  (Redshift)

We talk about some VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) environment options

FRAME which was used at AU in the labs

HVE ConneXions which was used at BILT labs

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In this episode, we interview Gabe Paez Founder and CEO of The Wild.

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Show Notes

Episode Hashtag: #XR

Check out The Wild

Twitter

Instagram

LinkedIn

Facebook

YouTube

Gabe talks about what he is firming in camp XR

One reality to rule them all

A virtual conference would be great for the environment

The Wild video from AU that Carl aka The BIMsider appears in…watch until the end.

twitter.com/TheWildXR/status/1197237162304888832

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In this episode, we get back into doing interviews with awesome guests! This episode we talk with Dan “The Polar Bear” Stine about AR and VR, being an empty nester soon and of course riding his bike to work in the winter in Minnesota!

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Show Notes

Episode Hashtag: #ThePolarBear

Check out Dan’s Blog: BIM Chapters

Inception! – Dan’s blog about this episode: BIM Thoughts Podcast and Winter Biking

Check out Yulio

Trimble XR 10 with HoloLens 2

Try AR and VR in Fuzor

1 to 1 AR scale with QR Codes – real and in model versions

Voice commands for your AR – So Cool!

Use voice to move your model 2.54 cm to the left

Use the Dan Stine Avatar out of the box when you buy Fuzor

Dan answers the question AR or VR

Spoiler they both have their place…listen to find out where those places are

VR services can be PAID services that the client requests, it’s not just for marketing anymore

Why should you go for the Trimble XR 10 version of HoloLens 2 vs the Standard Microsoft HoloLens 2 version?

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Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.