Fred Flintstone and his brontosaurus crane belonged together. They were iconic. Fred didn’t have the luxury of quarry information modeling. Maybe he didn’t even have the luxury of dynamite. But he did have his bronto-crane, …
The 6 Improvements to Design Collaboration That Will Beautify Your Design Life
The need for speed hasn’t really changed in in the last 30 years. Everyone still wants everything yesterday. Fortunately we now have the ability to make things happen nearly instantaneously – and that is true …
eVolve: Don’t Let Kryptonite Bring Down Your MEP Superhero
| Evolve – to come forth gradually into being; develop | You may not think of yourself as a hero. You know who the real heroes of this world are. But give yourself credit for …
AutoCAD Plant 3D/Navisworks in VR
I had the opportunity today to work with a friend, Corey Arledge at Eledeco Inc., to get a Navisworks model up and running in a HTC Vive headset. One of the most exciting Navisworks plugin …
Bluebeam Revu 2018 – Keyboard Shortcuts Enhancements
When I was first learning CAD, my mentor told me, “If you want to get fast at CAD, type!” I believe the same thing holds true with Bluebeam Revu, if you want to be fast …
Where Are My Out of the Box Templates for Revit 2019
Here is another tip for you all who recently upgraded from previous versions of Revit and are still having trouble finding their templates in Revit 2019.
BIM 360 Design: How to Create Backups when Working on a Collaborative Central Project
First of all, congratulations on your purchase of BIM 360 Design. Some people are unaware that when working on a Collaborative model using BIM 360 Design, you have to do some extra steps in order to create backup files.
Document Sets Now Available in BIM360 Docs
BIM360 Docs now has the ability to manage Document Sets. When you upload a document pay close attention in the dialog box there is an option to specify a set. This is where you will …
eVolve 2.0 – Deep Dive into System Conduit
One of the biggest new features in eVolve 2.0 is the addition of System Families. With eVolve 2.0 users will be able to create level 400 models with the quickness and ease of modeling with System Families as opposed to previous versions being restricted to just Component Families.
eVolve 2.0 – New Export Requisition Form
This tool will allow you to export your material schedules to Excel. In previous versions of eVolve, the export had to be started while in the specific schedule that was going to be exported. The improved exporter can begin while being in any view in the model.
Bluebeam Revu – Compare Documents vs. Overlay Pages, Why Not Both?
The other day I was with a client and showing them some of the features available in the new Bluebeam Revu 2018, and they asked if they could somehow get the functionality of the Compare Documents and the Overlay Pages at the same time. There’s no way that I know of to get either command to duplicate the functionality of the other one but, there is a nice trick you can do.
eVolve 2.0 – New Tags and Schedules
New parameters in the updated and new families have improved the use of tags and schedules in eVolve 2.0. With the use of these new parameters, the need to manual dimension conduit runs has almost been eliminated.