Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Top advantages of Project Parameters

Advantages of Project Parameters in Revit
  1. Sorting/Grouping in Schedule – You can add parameter like Tower number, which can help in sorting while scheduling

  1. Color coding by using Filter- You can add parameter like Month, which can help in filtering to color code in filter

  1. In Navisworks for making sets- You can add parameter like Activity, which can help make sets in Navisworks & which later can be used in Timeliner.

  1. For adding useful information while building As-built model.

Saturday, May 16, 2015

Points of Revit Topography in text file via Dynamo

You need to install Dynamo, click here
Open Revit file with topography & select Dynamo under Add-ins menu
This will open Dynamo window, hit New
We are now in Dynamo file
In search at top left corner, type select model element.
You will see the options coming up to select, select “Select Model Element”
Below tab will pop-up to select the element
Hit Select in it & select the Topography in Revit
See that after selecting element id will be shown
Now in search tab type Topography.Points & select Points shown below

Select Elements & topography, as shown
Now search Code, select Code Block
In Code Block, Type P & hit cursor outside
Now after P type .X; enter, type P.Y; enter & type P.Z;
Link above to Points in Topography
Search for string from array, link this tab to code block as shows
Now search for csv. & select WriteToFile
Below tab will appear
Link it as below
Search for file path & select the one shown below
Link it with filePath of CSV.WriteToFile
Hit the Browse tab in File Path to save the text file, remember to give separate name else files will override each other
This will give you three separate text file of points
Enjoy

Friday, May 15, 2015

My First Certificate for Revit


Built basic data to start modeling in Infraworks 360LT

Doble click below Icon
InfraworksIcon.png

Above Icon is for Autodesk Infrawork 360 LT, available with Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite Ultimate 2016 & Autodesk Building Design Suite Ultimate 2016 subscripted members.

This will open below to sign-in your account, as Infrawork 360 is a cloud based service provided by Autodesk.

Autodesk sign-in.png

Once sign-in is done below window appears

Infraworks-window.png

To generate the basic data to start with project hit model builder

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Below Model Builder window will appear

Initial-ModelBuilderWindow.png

We will take example of Powai, Mumbai area as I work there:smileyhappy:

In search type Powia, Mumbai, India

Search-Powai.png

To change the view I will select below under Road drop down,

Satellite-View.png

Above will change view to satellite view

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Below are the options to select the view

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I will select, the draw polygon option

Put the name of the file in left bottom corner & hit Create Model

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This will show you below window, close this & wait for a while

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You will get the mail & also now can see the file in Infraworks, hit the file to download & open.

Powai File present.png

Once opened you can see below

View is ready for you.png

Enjoy:smileyhappy:

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Autodesk finds system & graphics hardware for you

Goto website click here

Select the required this as shown below & hit find button,

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You will get the required results as below,

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I am Dell fan so selected Dell as a manufacturer:smileyhappy: