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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Revit Tutorials - Room Schedules

Nice find from Revit Structural Learning Curve pertaining to creating and using room schedules.


Room Schedule Part 1, Creating the Schedule
This video describes how to create a Room Schedule for use in your various Revit projects. Uploaded February 23, 2012.

Room Schedule Part 2, Settings and Data
This video discusses some of the options associated with your new Room Schedule and how to add some data for your various Revit projects

Room Schedule Part 3, Data and Key or Room Style Schedule
This video describes how to add more data and how to insert and use a Key Schedule or Room Style Schedule in your Room Schedule for use in your various Revit projects.

Friday, February 24, 2012

#RTC2012 - Abstract Accepted!

I am very excited to tell you all that I will not only be going to the Revit Technology Conference 2012, but I will be instructing a lab there as well!!!


"Dear Jeffrey Pinheiro,


Thank you for submitting an abstract for consideration at RTC 2012 North America, to be held at Evergreen Marriot Conference Resort, Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA on 28 - 30 June 2012.


I am pleased to inform you that the RTC Organising Committee has accepted your abstract, "Revit Energy Analysis Workflow: Analyzing Your Model from Concept to Reality" as a 60 Minute LAB in the Sustainability stream, Intermediate level."


Now go talk to your bosses, schools, and teachers... If anyone should be at this conference it should be us, the students, the future...  They have some great student and professor rates.

Register now!

SAuBIM - Code Calculations for Revit - Spring Sale - Last Day!

Just a friendly heads up that the Spring promotion for SAuBIM is ending today...

Click here to take advantage of this deal now!

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Revit Tip - Placing Based Content (Revit OpEd)

Steve posted a nice tip that will definitely help all of you.  This is something that I see on a day to day basis in the office... Especially because people tend to get into "CAD" mode and forget to check sections, elevations, and 3D....

Click here to see the post by Steve over at Revit OpEd...

Thanks for the write up Steve!

ACSA Annual Meeting - Boston

I will be attending the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture's 100th Annual Meeting Boston!  A few classmates, along with myself, have been asked by our department chair to represent the University of Hartford's Graduate program (it recently received a 6 year NAAB accreditation).

I think it is going to be a great opportunity to represent both my school and this blog.  Some of the events/lectures look interesting as well (it looks like Uncle Phil will be there as well!)

If you are going and would like to meet up feel free to email me at:  Jeff@TheRevitKid.com

Sunday, February 19, 2012

Brainstew ... 3 Years and Counting!

I took a look at the blog and realized that I have not posted in quite a while. A lot longer of a break between posts than ever before I think. Well, the last month or so has been a blur. Most of you are in or have been in school for architecture or engineering and understand how it can consume your life.

I want to apologize for the lack of posts and I hope to get some free time to post ore regularly in the coming weeks. I will say that even though I have not been posting too much I have been very busy exploring, interacting, absorbing, and teaching all things Revit and BIM related. In fact, I will be posting soon about a few events coming up that I will be attending and presenting at.

The positive side to school and work taking over the majority of my time is the new challenges I am encountering. This semester in the masters program at the a University of Hartford applies a high concentration on urban design and planning. I think the techniques I will exploring in using Revit at this scale will a lot of fun and make for some great posts.

Additionally, at the office, many of the Revit projects that were started when I joined the firm are moving into the construction phases. The knowledge and lack of knowledge about BIM and Revit of all the parties involved is beginning to show. It is very exciting to lend my knowledge to shape the future of these projects and, ultimately, evolve the office standards.

I hope all the information (750+ posts) that exists on this site are still keeping you all occupied for the time being (the site traffic has not gone down so I guess it is).

Finally, last week (February 12th) marked the third year this blog has existed. Three years! I cannot express in words what this blog has done for me. What you all have done for me by visiting the site, linking to it, commenting, emailing, and spreading the word. The blog has surpassed (more like left in the dust) 1,000,000 visits, it now has the same amount of feedburner views, and has over 1,000,000 screencast video views (that number surprises even me! If you guys only knew what I have gone through with Screencast and bandwidth!).

When I decided to start this blog three years ago I never would have imagined it would have become what it is today.


Here's to a bother three years of blogging, networking, discussing, meeting, and teaching with the best readers out there! I have big pans for the future and I hope you all will continue to join me on my journey.

Thursday, February 16, 2012

BIM Spectrum Virtual Event Starts in 20 Minutes!

I am pretty excited to hear what Robert Manna, Phil Bernstein, and the like have to say today...  The virtual interface seems pretty cool so far...

Friday, February 3, 2012

Revit Tip - Why is My Stair Only Showing "UP" Label??

Someone in my office could not figure out why, no matter what the view was set to, the stairs in Floor Plan view only showed the Up label.  Sections were cut, stairs were redrawn, etc...  Couldn't figure it out!

Well, in case you happen to run into this problem here is the reason why....



In this particular file, that check box was defaulted as "on"...  Why is there no "Show Down arrow in all Views"...  Is this even necessary?  Anyways, just a heads up for those of you who might run into this...