BIM Tools Weekly

New This Week

• Adding model text to a wall face

• Welcome
• Using the exercise files

• Glue and Navisworks: Differences
• Stair and railing enhancements
• Adding curbing to a site in Revit

• Inserting Navisworks into Revit
• Batch Print
• Transmit a model
• What are the biggest BIM roadblocks?
• Text

• New base plates in Revit Structure
• Space Naming Utility
• Worksharing Monitor
• How do I roll out a learning path to my company?

• 2D or not 2D: Do I fully model everything?
• Critical path: What systems should come first during BIM coordination?
• Asset management: When BIM crosses the goal line
• Creating compound walls
• Setting up file sharing

• Creating design options
• Configuring phasing
• Creating custom mullions
• Curtain panels

• Massing
• Creating an in-place structural family using massing
• Wall by face

• Global parameters
• Creating self-illuminating materials

• Adding logos
• Creating circuit filters
• Choosing the best workstation
• Creating slanted columns

• Attaching columns to a beam
• Creating a 45-degree beam join
• Adding a custom decking profile
• Adding a rebar coupler

• Installing structural connections
• Loading and installing fabrication parts
• Adding a clip angle
• Optimizing fabrication parts
• Creating a multipoint fabrication run
• Scheduling fabrication parts

• Tagging fabrication parts
• Adding hangers
• Creating parametric massing
• Calculating units in Revit
• Adding a radial framing truss member

• Autodesk BIM 360 Ops portfolios
• Autodesk BIM 360 Ops exporters
• Autodesk BIM 360 Ops profiles
• Checking out a Revit license

• Creating a file-shared cloud model
• Finding a local cache C4R model
• Inviting members to C4R
• Configuring text

• Configuring dimensions
• Opening a glue model in Navisworks
• Reviewing Enscape
• Managing cloud models

• Geolocating a Revit model from a survey
• Finding Revit exporters for BIM 360 Ops
• Reviewing a file-shared Revit model's history
• Creating an exploded view

• Exporting to CAD
• Exporting to Excel
• Insert Views from File
• Adding a decal
• Importing and linking CAD

• Adding matchlines
• Checking a model's history
• Temporary Hide
• Restoring a backup

• Creating an area plan
• Project Browser Organization
• Creating assemblies

• Creating plan regions
• Graphic display depth cueing
• Show hidden lines through an object
• Adding an edge to a mass

• Rehosting a railing
• Calculating parameters in a schedule
• Setting up a BIM 360 project
• BIM 360 Desktop Connector

• Collaboration for Revit using BIM 360 Document Management
• Publish settings

• Creating global parameters
• Creating viewpoints in Navisworks

• New Navisworks Options
• Creating a noteblock in Revit
• Combining parameters in a schedule

• Creating an if statement to control a yes-no parameter
• Defining a path of travel

• Work sharing models in Revit
• The selection box in Revit
• The challenges of roofs with dormers

• The new tabs in Revit
• Saving views in Navisworks

• How to adjust the background in Navisworks
• How to make a movie in Navisworks
• How to move modeled items in Navisworks

• Hold and carry items in Navisworks
• Creating selection sets
• Producing assemblies

• Creating parts
• Cutting parts into smaller parts
• Creating a detail of a wall broken down into parts
• Creating an exploded (displaced) view

• Displacing parts in a view
• Creating a shared parameters file
• Adding a self-illuminating material

• Linking a hatch pattern with a material
• Creating a divided parts view
• Adding a logo as a material
• Cutting a section through a divided part

• Bolt
• Types
• Plates
• Bolt assembly

• Scaling a TIFF image in a family
• Creating a 20-story tower using massing
• Combining massing elements
• Opening a BIM 360 model

• Creating a VAV unit in Revit
• Adding insulation to ductwork and piping
• Configuring rebar cover settings
• Configuring rebar graphics

• Adding reinforcing to a wall
• Force relinquish users in BIM 360

• Installing and using the desktop app
• Installing and using the Desktop Connector
• Adding a company to BIM 360
• Adding a user to BIM 360 Design

• Revit C drive maintenance
• The Synchronize monitor button
• Adding a rebar bend
• Understanding rebar shapes

• Configuring visibility settings for rebar
• Setting up room bounding in a linked model
• Creating an analytical air system
• Creating an analytical System-Zone
• Setting up an energy model

• Analyzing an HVAC system
• Analyzing an annual load report
• Generating an Insight analytical model
• Creating a truss using a template

• Modeing an in-place truss
• Creating a purlin
• Creating truss bars for a rigging truss

• Creating a line-based rigging truss
• Examining BIM 360 applications
• Adding users to a BIM 360 project

• Revit patches required for BIM 360
• Creating a step footing family

• Adding a step footing family to a foundation
• Creating a slab depression
• Creating a beam pocket
• Beveling the edge of a foundation wall
• Creating a cone-shaped bell column

• Creating a pour-stop detail component
• Creating a trench drain
• Creating a line-based shallow footing

• Creating a tapered column
• Creating a panel for a tilt wall
• Creating a line-based tilt wall family
• Creating a curtain wall with a radial top
• Manually adding curtain grids to a blank curtain wall

• Adding a door to a curtain wall
• Adding a brick panel to a curtain wall
• Adding mullions to a curtain grid
• Configuring a colored-glass panel

• Viewing a linked Revit project
• Running the clash

• Finding clashed elements
• Reviewing the clashes
• Resolving clashes

• Exporting a report