NITI Aayog officials said BIM could save up to 20% of the project cost

In a move that will give a boost to infrastructure and housing projects across the country, the government is considering the latest building information and modelling (BIM) technology to fast-track construction work. The move will also help optimise the cost of housing construction and in achieving the government’s target of housing for all.

According to the latest report by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, at least 355 projects have seen a cost overr ..

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Keep Revit file healthy and avoid corruption of the file by following certain things.

1. Audit file regularly, 

2. Working on latest Revit Build, 

3. Clean temporary files regularly, 

4. Avoid linking/importing CAD(dwg/dgn) data. See more details here on importing CAD.

5. Reduce warnings 

6. Reduce use of Third Party application.

7. Avoid importing complex geometry.

In Worksharing environment, 

1. Create new local file regularly.

2. While saving use Compact Central Model, 

3. On Collaboration for Revit, if you are getting errors, clear corrupt & damage model from the system, 

Further, you can go through the journal file to locate the issues, here is the information on how to read the journal file.

Also, read the Autodesk Knowledge Network article on What causes data corruption

Create Underground Tunnel in Revit

More than 30 ways to find the missing element in Revit

More than 30 ways you can find the missing element in Revit 

1. The object or category is temporarily hidden
2. The object or category is hidden in the view
3. The object is being obscured by another element
4. The object's category or subcategory is hidden in the view
5. The object is outside the view's view range
6. The view's far clip depth is not sufficient to show the object
7. The object resides on a work set that is not loaded within the project
8. The object resides on a work set that is not visible in the view
9. The object resides on a work set that is not loaded in a linked file
10. The object resides on a work set that is not visible in a linked file
11. The object resides within a group (detail model) and it has been excluded from the group
12. The object is part of a design option that is not visible in the view
13. The object is part of a linked file that is not visible in the view
14. The object has one or more of its edges overridden to display as ''
15. The object is a family and none of its geometry is set to be visible in the view type
16. The object is a family and none of its geometry is set to be visible at the view's detail level
17. The object is set to not be visible at the category's detail level
18. The element has been placed outside the view's crop region (visible extents)
19. The element is an annotation object and does not reside entirely within the annotation crop region
20. The object's phase settings or the view's phase settings prevent the object from displaying in the view
21. The view's discipline is prohibiting the visibility of the object
22. The object is affected by a filter applied to the view
23. The object is subject to an element override, set to background color
24. The object is subject to a category override, set to background color
25. The object style is set to background color
26. The object is constrained to a scope boxes that is not visible in the view
27. The extents of the object itself don't permit it to be seen
28. The object is a mass, and 'Show Mass' is turned off
29. The object's host view has been deleted (area boundaries)
30. The view's scale is prohibiting the object's visibility
31. The object is a linked instance with coordinates too great for Revit to handle
32. The user has incorrectly identified the link instance to which the element belongs
33. The object is in a link that is not in its correct position

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Compatibility issues with C3D 2017 and older versions

Civil 3D 2017 was recently released but be careful before upgrading. The last 4 previous versions (2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016) were all compatible with each other, but 2017 is NOT backwards compatible.
If you open an older Civil 3D drawing using Civil 3D 2017, and save it, it will be in the new format and you will not be able to edit it in any older version such as 2016, 2015, etc.
Note that the “AutoCAD DWG” format is the same (named 2013). You can open a Civil 3D 2017 drawing in any version (2013-2016) of Civil 3D, but when you do so, the Civil objects will become proxy objects and be of no use, The prospector will be rendered inoperative for that drawing also.
When you open an older Civil 3D drawing in 2017, you will get this warning dialog:

If you open a Civil 3D 2017 DWG in an earlier version, you’ll get this message.

…and the prospector for that DWG will look like this, with no ability to see or manipulate objects.

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