No live stream this week! Instead, here is a little excerpt from a recent presentation I did for AIA Columbia (South Carolina)...
Special thanks to AIA Columbia for asking me present to them... and letting me record it to share with you all!
No live stream this week! Instead, here is a little excerpt from a recent presentation I did for AIA Columbia (South Carolina)...
Special thanks to AIA Columbia for asking me present to them... and letting me record it to share with you all!
Last night on BIM After Dark Live, we talked about modeling plumbing in Revit for residential architects. I showed how to get started modeling pipes, setting up views, and creating dynamic yet informative plumbing drawings for small-scale residential work.
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On this episode, we continued The North Wing by completing some construction documents in Revit... But, what I really wanted to show you was why you should STOP USING TEXT NOTES IN REVIT!!! You heard me... Now, tune in to the replay find out why and how!
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On this episode of BIM After Dark Live we looked at the Residential Revit project I am working on ("The North Wing") and I riffed a bit about design options in Revit... a powerful but underutilized function in Autodesk Revit.
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In this Office Hour Session I riff on 3 options to modeling the detail where sheathing and siding overlap a rim board in residential Revit construction...
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In this Office Hour Session I riff on section boxes in Revit, share some short cuts, tips, and tricks! This is one of the more common questions I get asked when teaching Revit and using the "BX" shortcut... ;)
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During last week's episode of BIM After Dark Live, we talked about Twinmotion for interiors (with Lumen) there was a comment about animating the doors while navigating the live scene:
It's super fun and just adds so much more life to a live model scene....
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On last night's episode of BIM After Dark Live I ran through creating an interior live real-time rendered scene of the primary bathroom of "The North Wing" project...
The key takeaways were adjusting lights coming in from Revit, material tips for realism, adding entourage... and the sun/light settings that really make a scene feel natural...
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On this episode of BIM After Dark Live we took a look at the latest scheme of "The North Wing" (a recent residential Revit project) and generate some Twinmotion Exterior renderings / scenes... Live!
Some of the topics we talked about were:
- Revit Modeling tips when using Twinmotion for renderings and real-time visualization
- Exporting and Importing Revit models to Twinmotion
- Building your scenes, tips and tricks.
- Ambience and lighting settings for the most realistic real-time scenes
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On last night's episode of BIM After Dark Live I introduced you to a new Residential Revit design/build project of mine: "The North Wing". This project is early in the design phase and I wanted to take a moment to highlight some of the workflows, concepts, tools, and processes I use while exploring design options for a project.
Some of the topics we covered were:
- Introduction to the project and current design(s)
- Revit to iPad Sketching Workflow with Procreate
- How much to model this early in design...?
- When and when not to use Design Options in Revit?
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On this episode of BIM After Dark Live I will be joined by John Pierson of Parallax Team to talk about all of the new features to Dynamo for Revit 2025!
Some of the topics we will cover include:
Dynamo for Revit 2025:
- Now .NET8 (formerly .net framework 4.8 - microsoft)
- potential speed gains, more modern
- New Nodes for linked files
- Toposolid nodes
- Coming soon - panel nodes
Notes about packages for Revit 2025:
- Most c# packages need updated
- Python is still iffy
- Ongoing package manager woes
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