| Quick Presentation Plans in Revit- Marie Fisher, LEED AP, CADD Microsystems, Inc. |
In the past, many firms export plans from Autocad and import them into Photoshop to add color. Revit gives us the opportunity to be more efficient by creatively using a color scheme legend.
First duplicate your working view and clean up as necessary. Override the walls to be solid fill, if desired, so they really pop. Add real modeled floor finishes where pattern is important, like tile, as the pattern will show through the color fill. Make sure you have rooms in place. Then you can create a new color scheme based off the existing room parameter called floor finish. Place the color scheme, adjust colors as necessary, and edit the properties of each room. For a faster way to do this, create a room schedule that shows the floor finish parameter and edit all rooms in one place. Add the area to the schedule and with a filter, you can get a quantity take off for each floor finish. You can also create a new room tag that pulls the floor finish parameter for easy tagging on plans.
Finally, turn on shadows and set your presentation view to shading with edges so that your furniture doesn't show up bright white against your colored floors. (Note that for this to work, furniture families must not contain masking regions and the modeled geometry must be set to visible in plan view.)
And the best part is, the "floor finishes" will automatically update when plan changes occur! |
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| Shared Coordinates - Elizabeth Chodosh, KlingStubbins |
While Revit inherently has a relative origin, it has no absolute UCS or ACS coordinate system with a single 'origin' point that starts at 0,0. The nature of what is called 'bi-directional-associativity' in Revit makes a standardized coordinate system unnecessary, as locations can be set using parameters for location that may vary greatly from one site or project to another. We can, therefore apply a coordinate system developed around the relationships between buildings on the project, or acquire a coordinate system from a CAD file order to coordinate with site/civil as well as manage multiple files intelligently as linked Revit datasets. This is the function of Shared Coordinates in Revit. Using Shared Coordinates successfully takes careful planning. Users frequently joke that there are six ways to do anything in Revit and still do it right, however, this is one tool that even the factory says you must follow the rules. |
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| Revit + Facilities Management - Christopher Fernandez, CADD Microsystems, Inc. |
| Using Revit as a Facilities Management tool makes perfect sense. You already have all of the modeled information that illustrates your building. Taking advantage of some creative parameter use and Area Plans, we can create many maps and schedules to illustrate our Facilities needs |
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| Autodesk University Update - Galen Hoeflinger, Ayers Saint Gross Architects + Planners |
A recap of Autodesk University 2007 by Galen Hoeflinger of Ayers Saint Gross, included an explanation of what exactly is AU, some of the big picture items discussed at AU, and highlights of some of the classes that would be informative for RevitDC users. Autodesk’s belief is they create software to assist designers in the “design” process, and the design process is a collaborative event so must their software programs be collaborative. It was also very prevalent at AU, just like in the rest of the AEC Industry that BIM and Sustainability are the driving forces on Autodesk’s software. A few of the specific courses were discussed including some powerful ways to construct massings and shared some tips on speeding up Revit’s performance from a AU class. It was noted that the course materials are located on the AU website.
The recap concluded with a concept video on how Autodesk and USGBC potentially forsee the integration of the LEED process and BIM. |
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