col·lab·o·ra·tion/kə,labə’rāSH(ə)nNoun: the action of working with someone to produce or create something.”She wrote a book on holiday recipes in collaboration with her aunt Betty.”Synonyms: alliance, association, combination, cooperation, partnership. Collaboration empowers teams, individuals, clients and partners to share, communicate and cooperate with minimal delays and challenges, allowing all stakeholders to perform …
Fabrication: The Path Forward
Where have we been? It’s been nearly fifteen years since Revit was introduced to the world as the best way to achieve building information modeling. Once the term BIM was coined, it was everywhere. It seemed like everyone was writing about BIM, extolling the wonders of BIM, telling you that …
9 Ways eVolve is Driving Your Mechanical Firm’s Technology Forward
As a group, mechanical contractors have been willing to embrace the evolution of construction technology from paper-based coordination to 2D model collaboration and finally to the present 3D-model driven office, shop and field production. The mechanical construction segment really has driven technologies forward. The eVolve development team has spent a …
MEP Force Recap
“95% of MEP Force attendees would recommend MEP Force to a colleague.” MEP Force kicked off last month with a bang. If you haven’t already heard, MEP Force is an exclusive conference for an elite force of MEP heroes to unite and learn from other industry experts. For those looking …
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 being a survivor in this industry – a sort of “superman,” if you will. You …
The State of CAD & Pipe Fabrication
We’d like to give you the opportunity to win a $50 Amazon gift card. In return, we would appreciate your input on an 8-question survey to quantify the major issues pipe fabricators face when sharing data with engineering companies and end clients. Nationally the United States is seeing shortages in …
Import Unsupported CID Patterns into Revit using IFC
Often times, people who are working in CADmep are finding out late that their deliverable needs to be in Revit. Here is a tutorial on how to import the unsupported patterns of CADmep into Revit.
MEP Force 2018 Frequently Asked Questions
With MEP Force right around the corner, we want to make sure you have all of the information you need for a successful trip to Austin. Here are some common questions regarding the event. If you have a question and don’t see an answer here, please email us directly at …
Revit 2019 – Piping Tips
In Revit MEP, Piping systems have come along way. One topic I am asked about most in training or via support is how can I connect pipes easier in Revit. I will show you how to approach some different routing scenario’s. You will learn how to use the Routing Solutions, …
What Is Forge and Why Is It Important for AEC?
Autodesk Forge is a relatively new platform, a set of web services API’s. An API is an application programming interface, a way to extract data. Think about it as a box of Legos or parts that make up a model assembly. Documents and Information resides in multiple file formats and …
Out with Old Revit, In with Revit 2019!
Top features that Autodesk pulled out from Revit 2019: Suites Workflows such as switch to 3Ds Max Collaboration for Revit (C4R) Communicator instant messaging Exporting to .adsk file format Publish to Buzzsaw
AutoCAD Tip: Convert MTEXT to Multileader
Recently I have had several calls asking if it was possible to convert regular MTEXT to a multileader. Well, AutoCAD doesn’t have the capabilities to do so, but I found a snazzy lisp routine years ago on the AutoCAD Tips blog that does the trick. In theire blog titled Add …