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After two years of dedication and hard work, the first draft of the BIM Level of Development (LOD) Specification is finally available for public comment. The work group responsible for this important document is a joint task force consisting of members of the AIA and the AGC of America?s BIMForum. You might be asking, ?what is an LOD Specification …
HOK BIM Solutions 2013-05-01 19:13:00
We had a good Revit question come in from our Dubai office this morning concerning the calculation of gross floor area in a mass. What could cause a mass object to not list any gross floor area in the Properties palette? First, you must ensure that at least one Mass Floor is selected. You can access this setting by selecting a …
HOK BIM Solutions 2013-04-22 20:02:00
If you have never seen this issue before and are an electrical discipline user, you are extremely lucky. When adding wiring to electrical or lighting fixtures built in a face-hosted template, sometimes wires jump around in a frenzy every time a fixture is moved. This is obviously unacceptable, but luckily there is a fix. Let?s break it all down. Symptoms You …
HOK BIM Solutions 2013-04-21 16:37:00
A couple of weeks ago I was asked to take a look at a project that the team simply couldn?t open up. The file wasn?t giving any errors and the progress bar sat there at 99% and would not finish opening. To put things in context, this was an FF&E hospital project with about 12 floors and contained links to various …
HOK BIM Solutions 2013-02-22 15:56:00
We are dealing with a project that has an existing building, demo, and new construction requirements. There is a need to control the visibility of existing grids, grids that will be removed during the demo phase, and new grids.There are a major limitations to grids that everyone should be aware of. You cannot control the grids by phase; therefore you cannot demo …
HOK BIM Solutions 2013-01-29 22:12:00
Back in November, we reported on a new iPad app published by Autodesk called FormIt. I installed the free app and did a few form studies with it, including gross floor area calculations, shadow studies, and incorporating a satellite image of an existing neighborhood. Synchronization with my cloud account on Autodesk 360 was pretty seamless and I was able to download …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-12-27 23:23:00
Color schemes are a great analytical and visualization tool which can be used in floor plan, section and elevation views. Sadly, this functionality has been left out of reflected ceiling plan views. So how do you go about creating a colored ceiling plan? There are a few of options at your disposal and each has its downfalls. A) Overlaid Views …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-12-18 14:21:00
Since 2010, HOK has hosted an annual Building Information Modeling (BIM) Awards competition that celebrates projects exhibiting exemplary and innovative use of technology and integrated design. We continue that tradition into 2012 with our 3rd annual competition we like to call ?The BIMies.? Last year, one of our jurors ? AEC industry analyst, Dr. Lachmi Khemlani ? published a …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-12-13 14:19:00
McGraw Hill Construction has released their latest SmartMarket report on the ?Business Value of BIM.? This year?s report builds on the past 5 years of extensive industry research of building information modeling and how it affects various stakeholders in the construction industry. Of personal interest, the cover image is from HOK?s Francis Crick Institute ? a highly collaborative project in London …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-12-07 19:36:00
Depending on the product, software updates from Autodesk can come with a variety of terms. SP#, PU#, UR# and U# are the abbreviations used for Service Packs, Product Updates and Update Releases and Updates. There are also Hotfixes. In this post we provide a brief history and the most current update/fix/release. Are your installations up to date? Revit 2013 Since the …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-12-04 18:33:00
We are happy to announce that the HOK buildingSMART team is now live on Twitter at the handle @HOKbuildSMART. Our firm-wide leaders will share new ? and hopefully useful ? information about BIM, technology, open standards, and more. Feel free to follow us and also check out the summary of our most recent Tweetup here.
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-11-28 14:53:00
A new iPad app was announced by Autodesk at AU this week. This time, it?s a conceptual design application called FormIt. The app reminds me of SketchUp in that you can edit forms through direct manipulation and by sketching lines to divide surfaces, thus creating new extrusions. This interaction feels pretty fluid and intuitive. I was up and running with some …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-11-15 15:21:00
A colleague recently asked me to add something to the 'Revit wish list' - the ability to place a section reference in a legend view. This would be used in the context of a door or window legend to indicate typical details. One answer might be to create a fake section mark as a generic annotation, but we really don't want …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-11-13 22:10:00
Thanks to those who joined us today on our first ever Tweetup celebrating HOK's BIM Day - which from now on will be buildingSMART Day. You can still check out the tweets using #HOKBIMDay and a few new tweets on #HOKbuildingSMART.Our super-duper communications team (John Gilmore and Megan McClure) - created a summary of the festivities on Storify. Check it out …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-11-12 15:11:00
HOK's BIM leaders will be conducting a live Twitter chat on Tuesday November 13 from 12-1 pm EST in (belated) celebration of our firm's "BIM Day." We are entering a new phase of our innovative approach to design and delivery and we are now broadening our perspective to buildingSMART.The chat will be led by James Vandezande (@jvandezande) and Brok Howard (@brokhoward). …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-10-16 20:04:00
Could this be a game changer for web-based access to program AND model geometry for large projects? dRofus has released a new beta version of their popular integrated program management platform that includes an embedded model server from Jotne EPM. This new integration allows project teams to upload multiple models into dRofus for simultaneous visualization of program data and model geometry. …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-09-24 13:00:00
The US Army Corps of Engineers has recently released their Minimum Modeling Matrix or "M3" - available at cadbim.usace.army.mil. This document is a spreadsheet that contains three worksheets: Instructions, Modeling Requirements, and Scope-LOD-Grade. Referring to a post on All Things BIM ("Moving Forward With LOD"), the USACE M3 document utilizes the AIA LOD definitions and classifies the built environment with a minimum level of …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-09-21 13:00:00
As Summer 2012 draws to a close, two interesting releases that are quite relevant to our buildingSMART efforts. First, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has released updated versions of their "digital practice documents" for public comment. These documents represent an evolution of the E202 BIM Protocol Exhibit into a more complete project execution plan. You can visit www.aia.org/digitaldocs to download …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-09-20 13:00:00
If you've been in the BIM manager's seat for long enough, you might have seen this support request come across your desk a few times. In Revit, it's quite a convincing shock to open a project file and find nothing but annotation, but don't fret...the problem is most often just a workset visibility issue.We recently encountered this problem in our San …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-09-19 14:34:00
HOK?s own Amy Patel ? a buildingSMART Specialist ? gives a complete presentation to the New York City Revit Users Group (@NYCRUG) about the use of a BIM platform to calculate specific LEED credits. While she demonstrates using Revit, these concepts can be applied to any BIM platform. Check out the recording?
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