Wow, I hate to even write a post, it has been almost a year since my last posting. I can hardly call myself a blogger, but I have to keeping trying whenever I get the time to put something in writing. Hopefully throughout my time here I am able to sit down an jot down a few words about what is going on.
My plan is to lock myself in my room for a day or so (Sat/Sun) and brush up on my Class Presentation.
"Why are you not having a BIM/Revit Kick-off meeting?"
During the class I hope to give a good overview of the importance of having this type of meetings for projects using Revit, along with having the right people involved so your projects can be a success for everyone involved. I will discuss how critical it is to keep the lines of communication open at all times, before, during, and after a project. The main focus will be on the BIM/Revit Kick-off meeting agenda we use here at Ericksen Roed & Associates.
From this agenda, we will look further into a few of the main bullets such as: Identifying Team Members, Expectations and Goals and Indentify the Workflow.
With each one of these I will share with you and discuss some of the documentation we use to help communicate all of this. These methods of communication have worked well for us as well as for other project team members. Hopefully the class is enough to motivate you to start similar communications back at the office or continue to build upon what you already have.
I look forward to meeting you at AU2010.
Saturday, November 27, 2010
Friday, January 15, 2010
Redline Coordination Schedule (from a Structural Guy)
Another one of my articles (along with several others that are of great reading) have been published in the January/February 2010 issue of AUGIWorld magazine.
I encourage you to read mine as well as the others. They can be found at the below link.
AUGI World January/February 2010
Here is a quick blip of what I had to say. I hope you enjoy!
In my experiences using Autodesk Revit Structure for our projects, I have realized that the workflow is much different than what you are accustomed to doing in any other 2D environment. This is not an easy change, but if you just make an effort to seek something new you will see change start to happen. I am always looking for ways that not only change the workflow process while using Revit Structure, but also increase the team’s efficiency, both internally and externally.
One of those workflow processes that I would like to share is our Redline Coordination Schedule. This replaces the old hardcopy redline workflow we used in our 2D environment. We also use it where less-experienced users are working in the model and, if they do not feel comfortable making a certain change to the model, they can pass it off to a more experienced user who reviews the comments and picks them up as required.
I mentioned this workflow in the first Autodesk University class that I co-taught called, “Getting Your Company Ready for Revit Structure.” It was one of the biggest hits of the class. In fact, suggestions from other users helped make the process much better by sharing their thoughts and ideas about how the family should or could behave.
Hopefully, this article allows you to enhance your workflow and gets you thinking a bit differently about how you can keep communication ongoing between team members within your Revit model. With a bit more thought you may even develop ways to carry the communication to outside team members.
What exactly is it? .................
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Another one of my articles (along with several others that are of great reading) have been published in the January/February 2010 issue of AUGIWorld magazine.
I encourage you to read mine as well as the others. They can be found at the below link.
AUGI World January/February 2010
Here is a quick blip of what I had to say. I hope you enjoy!
In my experiences using Autodesk Revit Structure for our projects, I have realized that the workflow is much different than what you are accustomed to doing in any other 2D environment. This is not an easy change, but if you just make an effort to seek something new you will see change start to happen. I am always looking for ways that not only change the workflow process while using Revit Structure, but also increase the team’s efficiency, both internally and externally.
One of those workflow processes that I would like to share is our Redline Coordination Schedule. This replaces the old hardcopy redline workflow we used in our 2D environment. We also use it where less-experienced users are working in the model and, if they do not feel comfortable making a certain change to the model, they can pass it off to a more experienced user who reviews the comments and picks them up as required.
I mentioned this workflow in the first Autodesk University class that I co-taught called, “Getting Your Company Ready for Revit Structure.” It was one of the biggest hits of the class. In fact, suggestions from other users helped make the process much better by sharing their thoughts and ideas about how the family should or could behave.
Hopefully, this article allows you to enhance your workflow and gets you thinking a bit differently about how you can keep communication ongoing between team members within your Revit model. With a bit more thought you may even develop ways to carry the communication to outside team members.
What exactly is it? .................
Read the complete article to find out!!
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Framing Moment Symbol - Did you know?
I found out something interesting today about the "Connection-Moment-Filled" symbol that is used to show a symbolic Moment Connection type at the Start and End of framing members when set to a course view. Its solid Filled Region is controlled by the surface pattern of the Structural Framing category.
We had a view where we had the surface pattern turned off in the Visibility Graphics Overrides for Structural Framing for some of the concrete beams. Eventually we noticed that the moment symbols were not shown filled even though they were using the correct family which did have the triangle filled. After a little bit of trouble shooting I traced it to the surface pattern.
We had a view where we had the surface pattern turned off in the Visibility Graphics Overrides for Structural Framing for some of the concrete beams. Eventually we noticed that the moment symbols were not shown filled even though they were using the correct family which did have the triangle filled. After a little bit of trouble shooting I traced it to the surface pattern. I guess it makes sense because it is a pattern and is a surface, but since this is a symbol and not really part of the Structural Framing family I would expect that this Filled Region not be affected in this way by this action. Anyways... if you are finding that your solid filled moment connection symbols are not filled in, you might want to check to see if the surface pattern is toggle off either in the view or by the element.
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