RTC USA Me Part 2: A+Revit Families

This time the presentation is first & the handout after... Only one may be needed, as they are mainly the same... you decide though... Cheers

Session 10 Part B a+Revit Families Jay Zallan Presentation

Session 10 Part B a+Revit Families Jay Zallan Handout

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RTC USA Me Part 1: Ah, Whats The Program Doc? Revit for Planning

As promised first is the Handout, followed by the Powerpoint presentation... They may take a few seconds to load, depending on your connection... Enjoy!!!

Session 4 Ah Whats the Program Doc Revit for Planning Jay Zallan Handout

Session 4 Ah Whats the Program Doc Revit for Planning Jay Zallan Presentation

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RTC USA & J... Ah, What's The Program Doc?

The following (quoted text) is an excerpt from one of the upcoming RTC USA classes I am presenting... More to follow... Follow the RTC, that is!!!

These images illustrate but 2 of the many kinds of Planning & Programmatic projects possible. Using Revit as the main production tool; we created a scenario where immediate program validation & design verification was possible and sometimes actually FUN!!!

 "...Before anything we must formulate a road-map to ensure predictable results, inclusive of most of our needs.



The common road-map for any project is: Assess / Devise / Generate / Validate.

Assess The type of project will dictate what approach is used and there are many possible approaches. Herein we will look at several project types: TI and Office, Urban Planning and Client specific projects; in your approach define the scope of the project, based on client program, practice needs, etc. Generate a topology to capture thoughts and ideas, as these will most likely fluctuate so having good process documentation is paramount to train & communicate to colleagues and others.

Devise (Plan) your needs, keeping the end result in mind; “Will this become an office standard, will it need 3D review or simply 2D and Informational” and on and on. Sketch out what the components and results want to look like –a sort of cartoon set of components and sheet design, etc. At the end of this document is included a simple but useful 2 page “Family Planning” document that I use to sketch out & help formulate and plan families, designs and so forth; this way when I get to the actual creation phase I have a good understanding of the items necessary and have a kind of blueprint for blueprints, as it were.

Generate or Create: Need I say more? Well, I will… This is the time to begin to create the families, key schedules, schedules, parameters (shared & or project), design options and any other components that were deemed necessary in the assessment and planning phases. The suggested workflow is to create prototypes for each individual object, outside of any ‘official’ template first, so validation can be accomplished without creating havoc in final template files.

Best Practice: PROTOTYPE FIRST; whenever creating any family, etc.

Validate. The QA & QC phase. Flex all families in both the family editor as well as in a proxy project, again before bringing them into any prospective project or template. Test all other components & schedules, etc. we only want completely functional and tested objects into Revit®..."

Hope to see you (t)here!!!

Images courtesy: Gensler

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Kiss Revit's ASHRAE: Autodesk Labs Does it Again!!!

I don't think I need to say much more than that!!!

AEC & MEP folks take note... Hit the image for the Autodesk Labs' Plugin of the Month for April.

Thank you Mr. Labs.
Sincerely,
Mr. Buttle

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EXTREME(ly) BIM & Other Useful USC Offerings

It's that time of year again and Karen Kensek & the entire USC BIM team are at it once (or should I say 3 times) more... See the following & as always hit the images for links to the site(s)... And I will see you at the BIMposium!!!

This summer, the USC School of Architecture is offering THREE EVENTS that you might be interested in: the (almost free) annual BIM symposium EXTREME BIM 2011, the Façade Tectonics conference, and a series of Executive Education seminars including one on BIM.

Please take the time to email if you are seriously interested in the current and future state of the profession.
Thank you for your time!  

1)  5th Annual BIM Symposium:  Extreme BIM (almost free) - the most exciting event of the year!

Friday, July 8th.   Register on the website. Please reserve your spot soon; BIM Analytics filled up last year.

http://arch-pubs.usc.edu/extreme-bim/ 

EXTREME BIM: Friday, July 8th, 8:15 am - 4:15 pm (very, very small fee of $25

Keep checking back on the website as additional information will be updated there including the final schedule including the times of the individual talks.  YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THE SYMPOSIUM ON THE WEBSITE.

http://arch-pubs.usc.edu/extreme-bim/

The speakers for EXTREME BIM 2011 were instructed to give presentations that advance the idea of building information modeling, show things that most of the audience may not be aware of, and demonstrate that BIM is cool and cutting edge!  We have put together a slate of speakers that includes representatives from architecture, engineering, construction, education, and owners.  Explore a side of BIM that you have not seen before! 

Moderator:  Karen Kensek, USC, School of Architecture

List of Speakers:

Mario Guttman, AIA, LEED AP | Design Applications Research Leader, Perkins + Will Application Programming for Computational Design "A Case Study on Driving Revit from Ecotect"

Ian Keough, Associate, Buro Happold Consulting Engineers PC "Out of the Box : BIM Tools for Visualization and Documentation"

Nathan Miller, NBBJ, Associate

"Dataspaces and Uncertainty"

Joseph Burns, SE, PE, FAIA, Managing Principal, Thornton Tomasetti "Stretching BIM: Design to Construction"

Chandler Ahrens, Morphosis

"Progressive Feedback"

Michael Kilkelly AIA, Associate - Gehry Partners "Translations from Model to Building"

Bradley Hardin, RA, LEED AP, Vice President of Strategic Pursuits, Balfour Beatty Construction "BIM and Extreme Execution:  Why Digital Field Work is Everything"

TEAM Gensler

Adam Gumowski, Designer

Brian Fraumeni, Designer

Kristen George, Designer

Lorenzo Marasso, Designer

Yasushi Ishida, Designer

"Mind the Gap"

Brian K. Stewart, Partner and Nicole Davis Tinkham, Associate, Collins Collins Muir + Stewart LLP "A Legal Perspective on BIM"

Robert Cull, Executive Project Director, Cedars-Sinai Health System, Facilities Planning, Design and Construction "Document Management/Control in the BIM Process"

TEAM CCC (some might be virtual)

Lee Belarmino, Vice President of Information Technology and Bond Executive, San Joaquin Delta College Kimon Onuma, FAIA , President ONUMA Inc. / Founder of BIMStorms John Roach, Director, Systems Analysis & Research, Foundation for California Community Colleges "BIG BIM BANG: How the California Community College System Connected 71 Million Square feet of BIM, GIS, and Facility Management Data in the Cloud"

** If you are an AIA member and wish to sign up for CEUs, please remember to bring your AIA number with you.  It will be somewhere around 5 CEUs.

2)  Façade Tectonics Two Day Conference (for those interested specifically in the building envelope) - Contact Doug Noble, dnoble@usc.edu

FACADE TECTONICS: All day Friday and Saturday, July 29-30, 2011. 

$95 Registration, $45 for students. Ten (10) AIA CEU units (HSW).

The Graduate Building Science program at USC holds facade conferences two times each year.  The summer 2011 program builds on the highly successful and widely acclaimed Fall 2010 conference.  29 speakers. Examples topics at this conference include: Double Skin Facades, Parametrics and Facades, Facades and Seismic Motion, Structural Glass facades, Building Façade Retrofit, Dynamic Skins, Computational Methods for Façade Design, Daylighting and Glare, Analytical Computing Tools, and lots more.

3)  Executive Education (more BIM and façade seminars) -  http://execed.uscarchitecture.com/

2011 USC Architecture Summer Executive Education Program (not free) http://execed.uscarchitecture.com/program/bim-101/

http://execed.uscarchitecture.com/

Extreme BIM (Friday, July 8th) includes many shorter presentations in a lecture hall format.  If you prefer small, seminar classes that focus more deeply on just a few topics, consider taking one of the School of Architecture, Executive Education Seminars.  The courses are designed to be intimate in size with only 15-20 students in each class. This is the opportunity to interactively discuss the role of BIM in the profession with other architects.

This year, we will be hosting a one day BIM seminar on Thursday, July 7th from 9 am to 5 pm.  The two day seminar has been cancelled, but the topics have been folded into the one day seminar for a rich BIM experience.  For those of you also attending Extreme BIM, Gensler has provided a different set of speakers and lecture material.

Featured firms are HNTB and Gensler with Gautum Shenoy and Chris Bushong leading the panel of speakers.  There will also be discussions about emerging technologies and the AIA TAP BIM award winners by Marty Doscher (SYNTHESIS Technology Integration) and Jim Balding (The Ant Group).

Extreme BIM is free if you enroll in the Exec Ed seminar.

Make your BIM experience a double header with both Exec Ed and Extreme BIM!

Karen Kensek

USC, School of Architecture

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Wanna Say You Made Your First Revit Plugin? The Factory Can Help

If you have ever wanted to say "I made my first Revit Plugin"; primarily to enable yourself the ability to make more... then you'll want to hit the image @ left!!!

Thanks to the (Revit) Factory & ADN Revit Team!!!

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Revit Can't Do That... Wait; it Can!!!

If anyone says Revit Can't do something let them be on notice that they are almost assuredly wrong!!!

The image links to more... and YES that's a native Revit Cow Family!!!

See this link for more: The Revit Complex

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