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From the Beyond Design blog post, ?Why does my model look sectioned?? If you are experiencing clipping issues in Navisworks ? especially with large models ? you may have a spurious object far away from the main geometry. Your best option is to delete the extraneous element in the source model and reload it. If your composite model is just that …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-01-18 18:08:00
HOK?s own James Vandezande is the president of the New York City Revit Users Group (nyc-rug.com) and organizes popular monthly meetings around various BIM-related topics. The January 2012 meeting featured guest speaker Ian Atkins who shared some of his real-world experience in applying BIM to modular and prefabricated construction. Feel free to watch the recording of the meeting (Ian?s presentation starts …
HOK BIM Solutions 2012-01-17 14:47:00
Not too long ago, some in the industry thought that simply by exporting Revit models into Navisworks meant they were performing 3D coordination.1 I firmly believe we are moving beyond this notion towards a more complete offering of coordinated inter-disciplinary model deliverables. I was inspired to write this article from recent posts by Steve Stafford on RevitOpEd (?Designing Revit Content ? …
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-12-20 14:17:00
David Light HOK London explains how HOK has adapted Revit for touch screen technology. http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_id=18396
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-11-22 10:58:00
I am proud to say that I received a copy of Disegno (E) in_Formazione today or DRAWING (S) in_form. I was contacted by Massimiliano Lo Turco earlier this year asking for an interview on HOK?s experiences with BIM; as always, I obliged. The book is bilingual Italian & English & includes a wealth of knowledge on BIM strategy & …
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-11-01 21:33:00
Victor Martinez BIM Manager at HOK New York says; if you are loading families and want to view the icons in detail mode, hold your CTRL key down and middle mouse scroll in the window, the view will go from this: To this: The more you scroll with the CTRL key pressed the larger the icons will appear:
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-10-11 11:02:00
David Light, BIM manager, HOK London gives an overview on HOK buildingSMART. http://www.thenbs.com/topics/BIM/articles/BIM-Implementation_HOK-buildingSMART.asp
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-10-07 20:04:00
A request was made to me this week by one our project managers who wanted to know whether we where over or under our area requirements on one of our projects. We needed to show which rooms where providing more area than had been defined in the client brief & this needed to displayed graphically on plan. You would normally do …
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-09-23 09:07:00
Wanna know more about Citrix & Revit? Then be sure to check out HOK?s John Bartolomi, Director of IT Services class. He will be giving a presentation at Autodesk University on the virtualization of Revit. Class detail & times are below. ID: AB4595 Title: Autodesk Revit Virtualization Using Citrix® Technologies Date: Thursday, Dec 1, 2011 Time: 5:15pm Duration: 90 minutes …
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-09-07 13:00:00
Find below Youtube Video with a few tips on how we use Room separation lines in projects. I can?t take full credit for the parking bay concept as I believe Joe Stott over at Revit Scratchpad came up with something similar first off. Some will obviously freak out on how we add Room separation lines to a specific workset, but I …
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-08-24 15:36:00
The August 2011 meeting of the New York City Revit Users Group featured a presentation by Greg Schleusner of the firm-wide BIM leadership team at HOK. Greg demonstrates how the use of BIM-based program management tools such as dRofus can support and improve the project delivery process. The discussion focuses on the benefits of adequately documenting program requirements and then comparing …
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-08-02 11:57:00
Have you had issues where your Revit 2012 thumbnails have disappeared, even though Windows is set to display them? This often happens after uninstalling older versions of Revit, in particularly Revit 2010. Therefore to resolve this, open up a command promote & copy & paste this line into the command line. regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Revit Architecture 2012\Program\Revit.Thumbnail.dll" You will need to …
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-07-26 12:01:00
Need to reuse details from project to project? (of course!) Did you know that you can directly copy views from one project to another? Simply select and copy them from the project browser. Then paste them (ctrl+v) into the work area of another project! This works on: Drafting Views Schedules Empty Sheets Entire Sheets with only Drafting Views on them Legends …
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-07-26 11:51:00
Did you know there are two very different types of CAD backgrounds? Flattened ?2D? backgrounds that are overlaid onto a view Model element ?3D? backgrounds that have a physical location within the model The easiest and preferred method to link in a dwg is as a 2D background. How can you tell them apart? Select a CAD background.. if you …
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-07-26 10:47:00
Kevin Shumbera explains how the underlay feature can assist when generating a reflected ceiling plan & then coordinating with the furniture layout. Kevin says ? ?When working in a reflected ceiling plan, it is helpful to know where the furniture occurs?. Revit provides UNDERLAY tools to make this easier. You can work in the Ceiling Plan while viewing the Floor Plan …
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-07-26 10:38:00
Kevin Shumbra from HOK?s Houston offices shares some wisdom on ?stuff? which goes missing in Revit. Revit likes to play hide and seek? here is the process I use to find missing elements (beginning with the most likely cause) General Element is visible in other Views Open another view or draw a new one.. If the element shows up, it …
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-06-02 15:12:00
Social media tools such as this blog, Life @ HOK, Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and others are important parts of our firm?s dedication to open communication and collaboration. Our CIO, Ken Young, discusses this evolving practice at the KA Connect 2011 event?
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-05-01 10:18:00
Alan Sandler kindly asked us to judge the 42nd Annual High School Design Competition for AFSF. We received 14 entries many of which were quite nice considering that they were built by such young minds. We were asked to identify a winner along with a second and third place finish.The students were asked to submit a Revit 2011 model, an animated walk …
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-04-21 16:18:00
Tip submitted by Stan S. in San Francisco If you are a regular user of Navisworks to perform 3D coordination or 4D simulations using model data from Revit, you may have encountered a problem with updating the NWC files exported from Revit. Navisworks can directly open or append models from a number of formats including DWG, DGN, IFC, and so on. …
HOK BIM Solutions 2011-04-20 16:27:00
The folks over at Andekan ? a company ?focused on the creation of manufacturer-specific product familes? ? recently posted a detailed article on how to use reference planes in the Revit Family Editor environment. Definitely worth a read if you are creating content. Read ?On Strengths and Weaknesses (in the Revit Family Editor)? by Jose Fandos
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