No need to say more, except the handout will be posted after RTC Australasia and RTC North America...That'll be even greater!!! Click the image to see what's up with Revit Content actually following topo's...
Monday, 8 April 2013
Tuesday, 12 March 2013
As the years go on, in this whole thing we call BIM, AECO and Life; many of us are asked how best to learn software-X or similar questions. This posting should act as a great kick-start toward that end.
I am not getting tired of answering this type of question, as long as the folks asking such questions actually take the necessary steps and an active approach to their growth and education; rather than dreaming of "The Magic Wand" approach for getting education, or worse (as all to many people can be) learn the proper procedures, etc. then choose to ignore them.
With that said, here (well, by clicking the images below) are a couple of starting points (mandatory IMO) for all the newcomers to Revit. You will find a multitude of people's existing experience as well as a set of live, interactive question and response forums... This can get new and existing users -of all levels- closer to a state of Revit mastery. Create a free login and have fun!!! (Oh yeah, learn too)...
Notes to all those that are reticent to learn Revit (or at least the proper procedures in it) and/or those who don't see the need for BIM (whether Revit or other BIM authoring apps), I humbly but forcefully say:
Now onto business, If you are new to Revit or just want to get a start on becoming a Revit Knowledge Junkie hit the following images!!! Enjoy and thanks to all at TheRevitForum!!! FYI: If you are truly serious about learning Revit I am sure you will find the Live Sessions useful as well... In addition to this here blog of course ;-)
I am not getting tired of answering this type of question, as long as the folks asking such questions actually take the necessary steps and an active approach to their growth and education; rather than dreaming of "The Magic Wand" approach for getting education, or worse (as all to many people can be) learn the proper procedures, etc. then choose to ignore them.
With that said, here (well, by clicking the images below) are a couple of starting points (mandatory IMO) for all the newcomers to Revit. You will find a multitude of people's existing experience as well as a set of live, interactive question and response forums... This can get new and existing users -of all levels- closer to a state of Revit mastery. Create a free login and have fun!!! (Oh yeah, learn too)...
Notes to all those that are reticent to learn Revit (or at least the proper procedures in it) and/or those who don't see the need for BIM (whether Revit or other BIM authoring apps), I humbly but forcefully say:
- Stay the course of 2D CAD workflows so those firms that do and or have adopted BIM can take all of your prospective projects. -The world may need less Architects yet more 'good' ones anyhow...
Now onto business, If you are new to Revit or just want to get a start on becoming a Revit Knowledge Junkie hit the following images!!! Enjoy and thanks to all at TheRevitForum!!! FYI: If you are truly serious about learning Revit I am sure you will find the Live Sessions useful as well... In addition to this here blog of course ;-)
Monday, 4 March 2013
Agree or disagree, (I find) The BIM Protocol from The BIM Task Group to be quite valuable, especially when the PAS 1192-2:2013 is leveraged. -Enjoy and Use!!!
This is one time I will not editorialize (too much) except to say that projects that do not use a well defined plan and find that they are successful, can only be attributed the success to luck and that luck will not hold out. AECO is bigger and requires more respect than many are apt to give it... Revit (or whatever BIM) Projects are increasingly not independent, stand alone productions...
We (AECO) must evolve!!!
You in???
According to this Revit Fact Check | BIM Fact Check post:
"BIM Fact: A well defined BIM process is THE approach worth undertaking."
"BIM Fact: Using no BIM process is still a process.
-probably just a shitty one"
Need we say more? Like how widespread adoption in the UK may push others of us to adopt the same BIM Execution Protocols as one another? Kind of like having a "standard"!?
Want more? Get more... Check this out from the BIM Task Group (Then follow @BIMgcs)... Image links to the downloads page ;-)
This is one time I will not editorialize (too much) except to say that projects that do not use a well defined plan and find that they are successful, can only be attributed the success to luck and that luck will not hold out. AECO is bigger and requires more respect than many are apt to give it... Revit (or whatever BIM) Projects are increasingly not independent, stand alone productions...
We (AECO) must evolve!!!
You in???
According to this Revit Fact Check | BIM Fact Check post:
"BIM Fact: A well defined BIM process is THE approach worth undertaking."
"BIM Fact: Using no BIM process is still a process.
-probably just a shitty one"
Need we say more? Like how widespread adoption in the UK may push others of us to adopt the same BIM Execution Protocols as one another? Kind of like having a "standard"!?
Want more? Get more... Check this out from the BIM Task Group (Then follow @BIMgcs)... Image links to the downloads page ;-)
Thursday, 28 February 2013
During the course of a discussion in a recent Revit class for Project Managers that I was presenting, I reiterated the benefits, actually the mandatory use of 'help' and of the Internet, for finding multiple sources of workflows, best practices, how-to's, pitfalls and every bit of help, etc. The like as can also be found in my article: The Ultimate Revit Hand: Every Tip, Trick, Technique & Workaround (Known & Unknown)...Anyhow... The discussion with the PM's flowed into Keynoting and data/information fidelity in Revit and further simply in BIM and ultimately AECO itself... at a point I ventured over to RevitWikiHelp; a subsection of Autodesk WikiHelp. I was showing the breadth of captured knowledge there and when looking at the the "Community" pages; those that augment the main help topics; I found that someone we know and love(?) -ok, me... has had a portion of their work included therein and I am truly honoured (Use this link or the image above to get there)! FWIW, I didn't know my article was included there so you can understand my surprise!!!
Additionally, and to make your obtaining these and other materials for Revit, BIM and more; easily available: Here are all those forementioned materials, including handouts, the presentation's recordings as well as the other documents -the image (left) also gets one there... The posting shown also has handouts & documents, etc. by Troy Gates on Formula Driven Families & Noteblocks... all to download at your leisure (read as NOW ;-)
Don't forget to look at all of LARUG's blog archives for more goodies (found on the right side of the blog, below the "other sites" section...just go there and surf around!!! -Remember when it was called Web Surfing LOL...but I digress...
Thanks ADSK and YOU the reader for the continued support!!!
Finally, other than using F1 from your software, the following images will get you to all the AutodeskWikiHelp(s) main page(s).
-Cheers, -J
Wednesday, 20 February 2013
As the title states, this is in response to an article over at BIMstop, found here. I post this response here, as I use a dirty word and, well that's all...
Regarding "The Next Generation of Obsolete Professionals" article I will take a different tack and pose that schools are not putting out possibly "obsolete" professionals by not teaching Revit or Archicad or whateverCAD, it is rather by not preparing these young people for the realities of the current and future state of Architecture...which is the future of AEC and AECO...all together, not independent!!!
The learning of software-x in schools is needed but there is a larger conversation in the context of "The Next Generation of Obsolete Professionals", namely the need of Architects/Engineers as independent factors at all. Looking out 10 to 50 years, will society need (NEED) the Architecture or Structural firms as stand-alones or would civilization be better served if AEC firms become the predominant building creators?
Do Automotive designers work in companies independent from the Automotive manufacturer? For the most part No.
The 500# gorilla in the room called possible obsolescence of our industry may be that the future will see Architects/Engineers working in AEC offices and not necessarily being or needing to be independent entities -from the owner's $$$ perspective at least this seems optimum. I argue that from the Architect, Engineer and Contractor’s perspective this be seen as optimum as well.
BIM and further IPD, as we move closer to that industry wide, create a scenario where teams must be truly integrated for optimum efficiency and value (not to mention profit). It is increasingly more prevalent that those integrated firms will surpass what independent or ‘anarchist-process’ firms can possibly produce. I say Anarchist-Process since each independent player (A, E and C) each model for differing bottom lines and the use cases for BIM are so numerous that these different ‘bottom-line’ models or BIM are usually competing with one another’s use case or at best only marginally integrated. AECO needs completely integrated BIM, not marginally integrated BIM.
If Architects or "Designers" do not know how buildings 'go together' they are not much more than illustrators at best -and there is dwindling need for them (unless they want jobs in AEC offices to provide pretty pictures alone).
There are already too many folks that call themselves designers yet who are not; those who do not know or care how the "design" can possibly be built (if it even can be for the given budget). These Architectural Illustrators are part of what is keeping the wastefulness alive in AECO and that waste must surely stop.
The waste must stop, not because I am stating it, the waste will stop because it will be increasingly unacceptable by those in power (read as Owners (AKA: The $$$)).
BIM can empower the Architect and designer, Engineer and Contractor; therefore, BIM is needed to be studied and mastered in both higher education and in our industry.
BIM is not about making document sets and the example you provided of a set made in Adobe Illustrator looking unrecognizable from a Revit (for instance) set is arguably, if not technically preposterous.
BIM can empower the Architect and designer, Engineer and Contractor; therefore, BIM is needed to be studied and mastered in both higher education and in our industry.
BIM is not about making document sets and the example you provided of a set made in Adobe Illustrator looking unrecognizable from a Revit (for instance) set is arguably, if not technically preposterous.
Does Adobe Illustrator count anything? Does Adobe Illustrator have any ability to parameterize the objects for any number of AECO needs? No and NO.
Technically a piece of printed paper can belie it’s originating creation software (etc.) so ontologically you have a minor point. Now expand that point to be a serious one, as we do not only print once for instance… Make a change to the amount and kind of windows in a building (late in CD) and re-print...tell me how long those changes take in AI, how many views and schedules and calculations are incorrect (or how much more time (read as budget) is wasted using an inappropriate tool)... and then try and argue of the differences being imperceptible. I say that would be dramatically perceptible in every way, including graphic ‘look’.
Other than making pretty pictures of abstracted things that 'appear' to be buildings and document sets Adobe Illustrator is a meaningless point to raise. So too are the other non-BIM tools. Shit, I have seen a survey (graphically) created in Excel and although it ‘looked’ and ‘printed’ like a proper digital survey, it had absolutely zero usefulness outside of that print. It helped the project zero percent and actually cost time and more money since a real digital file was commissioned, therefore I would argue that the Adobe Illustrator set of documents is a tenuous point to attempt… BTW: that Civil Engineer is no longer doing business as far as I know, I suspect due to the inane nature of his software and process choices.
Other than making pretty pictures of abstracted things that 'appear' to be buildings and document sets Adobe Illustrator is a meaningless point to raise. So too are the other non-BIM tools. Shit, I have seen a survey (graphically) created in Excel and although it ‘looked’ and ‘printed’ like a proper digital survey, it had absolutely zero usefulness outside of that print. It helped the project zero percent and actually cost time and more money since a real digital file was commissioned, therefore I would argue that the Adobe Illustrator set of documents is a tenuous point to attempt… BTW: that Civil Engineer is no longer doing business as far as I know, I suspect due to the inane nature of his software and process choices.
Only those software that support object-based information and data embedding are true BIM authoring tools. That is simply what BIM is after all.
Building
Information
Model
Rhino, 3DMax, Maya, Sketchup, Maya, etc. are generic modelers and do not even say they are BIM authoring tools, no matter how useful they may or may not be in an Architectural or even as bit players in a BIM process.
BIM is intrinsically so much deeper than just paper output. If Architects truly adopt BIM, they would have to agree that the best course for the project is an integrated approach. A, E and C and even O being in tight collaboration, if not the same companies.
BIM is intrinsically so much deeper than just paper output. If Architects truly adopt BIM, they would have to agree that the best course for the project is an integrated approach. A, E and C and even O being in tight collaboration, if not the same companies.
Those that hold the view that the Architect's function is to create design intent document sets, are most likely going to see the demise of the standalone Architect and possibly usher that in to existence.
Tell me one building of any importance, created in the past decade that was drawn by hand...the whole CD set... That scenario is where we may find Architects who do not comprehensively adopt BIM and IPD workflows in the years to come...BTW: This point is software independent…it is Process Dependent.
There are plenty of programs, even in Universities that teach software usage, even BIM software, but the needs and issues facing AECO is not in learning any one software, the issue needs to be learning the BIM and IPD processes... software(s) can always be learned inside or outside of school.
Tell me one building of any importance, created in the past decade that was drawn by hand...the whole CD set... That scenario is where we may find Architects who do not comprehensively adopt BIM and IPD workflows in the years to come...BTW: This point is software independent…it is Process Dependent.
There are plenty of programs, even in Universities that teach software usage, even BIM software, but the needs and issues facing AECO is not in learning any one software, the issue needs to be learning the BIM and IPD processes... software(s) can always be learned inside or outside of school.
Thursday, 7 February 2013
The folks over at RevitFactCheck have proposed an experiment/challenge to get at the heart of the sameness(es) and differenc(es) and potential best-practice/workflows between Revit, Rhino and Archicad (Images link to apps). Woohooo, we will have actual data to compare apples to apples...well, software capabilities to software capabilities that is ;-)The teams are coming together, but if you want to participate (and that entails designing the challenge itself, if desired), then just hit the links to RFC and don't forget to look at the 3 software in question... Once everyone verifies their participation, we will share that info as well...
And if you use Bentley BIM software, there is place for you/your team at the challenge, we simply don't know anyone using that stuff, so we had no one to ask...If that's you join us as well!!!
The challenge will be live, live-streamed and recorded and looks to run over several sessions, including at LARUG meetings, so check here or there to see updates. See you there...soon...
Remember:
The bottom most image will get you to the RFC post directly!!!
Edit 02/11/2013: OK, so add to that Bentley (looks like) and definitely Vectorworks Teams!!! Welcome aboard!!!
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