AutoNews CAD-BIM Monthly Newsletter – August 2023
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Enhance Collaboration in your Workspace with Revit Worksets
In the field of architecture and design, collaboration is crucial for successful project outcomes. With the advancement of technology, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has become a prevalent tool for designers, and Autodesk Revit has emerged as a leading software for BIM implementation. One essential feature within Revit that enhances design collaboration is Worksets. In this article, we will explore the significance of Revit Worksets in promoting efficient teamwork, streamlining workflows, and maximizing productivity.
Credit: Autodesk | Use worksharing display modes to visually distinguish workshared project elements.
Streamlining Collaboration
Revit Worksets enable multiple team members to work on a project simultaneously, breaking down design tasks into manageable components. Each Workset contains specific elements of the building model, such as floors, walls, or MEP systems. By dividing the project into Worksets, designers can work concurrently on different aspects of the model without interference. This division allows for more focused and efficient collaboration among team members, ensuring smoother coordination and reducing the chances of conflicts arising from overlapping modifications.
Enhancing Design Productivity
One of the primary advantages of utilizing Worksets in Revit is the boost it provides to design productivity. The division of a project into Worksets facilitates parallel work, enabling team members to work on separate portions of the model simultaneously. This simultaneous work reduces downtime and accelerates the overall design process. For example, while one team member is developing the structural elements, another can focus on the architectural components, and yet another can handle the mechanical and electrical systems. By leveraging Worksets, designers can complete projects more efficiently, meeting deadlines and delivering high-quality designs.
Efficient Project Management
Revit Worksets also play a vital role in project management by allowing teams to control and track changes effectively. Each Workset can be assigned to specific team members, giving them exclusive access and responsibility for the elements within that Workset. This control ensures that modifications are made by the appropriate personnel, minimizing the risk of accidental or unauthorized changes. Additionally, Worksets provide a clear audit trail, enabling project managers to track changes, review progress, and resolve any conflicts that may arise during the collaborative design process.
Improved Design Coordination
Design coordination is essential to ensure that different building systems integrate seamlessly. With Revit Worksets, coordination between disciplines becomes more straightforward. Team members responsible for different disciplines, such as architecture, structure, and MEP, can focus on their specific Worksets while maintaining awareness of the overall project. By collaborating within their designated Worksets, designers can easily identify and resolve clashes, reducing design conflicts that may arise from overlapping elements. This streamlined coordination helps minimize errors, improves constructability, and enhances the overall quality of the final design.
Credit: Autodesk | Visually distinguish team members that own elements in a workshared project.
Learn More About Revit Worksets
In the realm of design collaboration, Revit Worksets have emerged as an invaluable tool. By dividing projects into manageable components and facilitating concurrent work, Worksets optimize teamwork, streamline workflows, and boost productivity. Moreover, they enable efficient project management, allowing for controlled access and effective change tracking. Revit Worksets enhance design coordination, ensuring seamless integration between different building systems.
With their multifaceted benefits, Revit Worksets have become an indispensable feature for architects and designers seeking to maximize collaboration and deliver exceptional results in the realm of BIM. Introduce Revit Worksets to your workflow with help from Robotech CAD Solutions. For 30 years, we’ve been delivering authorized training and certification to teams just like yours. See our course listing and reach out to get started today.
AutoNews CAD-BIM Monthly Newsletter – May 2023
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Introducing Revit 2024
Revit 2024 has just been released, and with it are a lot of exciting new additions and improvements to existing features. We’ve highlighted several of the latest features you’ll come across.
To see all this in video format, click here: [link coming soon!]
Design productivity
- My Insights in Revit Home
- Dark Theme
- New Imperial and Metric Templates
- New sample model
- Modernized Project Browser with new Search
- Height parameter in scope box
- Color Books browser
- Textures visual style
- Revit to Twinmotion enhancements
- Site design – Icon reorg for Massing and Site
- Site design – Create Toposolid
- Site design – Generate Toposolid from Toposurface
- Site design – Linked Topography enhancements
- Site design – Contour Display settings per Types
- Site design – Cut geometry enhancement & Mass Cut excavations
- Site design – Solid Sub-divisions
- Site design – Cut & Split Toposolids
- Site design – Graded Regions
- Site design – Show shape-edit control points
- Site design – Floor-based families and Slab Edges on Toposolids
- Site design – Exposed Toposolid API
- New path alignment options for free form rebar
- Stirrup orientation for aligned free form rebar
- MEP fabrication ductwork stiffener
- Pipe Wall thickness as a built-in parameter
- Elevation parameters in visibility filters
- Hide insulation with hosting duct and pipe
- Parameters sorting in type/instance properties
- Export ‘Family type’ parameter
Simulation & analysis
- Sun Settings in the ribbon
- Run Solar Studies with seconds intervals
- Sun Paths in perspective views
- Generate energy model by view
- Enhanced structural analytical loads
- Structural area loads with color coding
- Custom physical-analytical association
- Detailed results for connection automation rules
- Non-coincident loads for electrical analytical components
- Flow and pressure calculations added to MEP fabrication network
- Network based calculation for design ductwork
- Demand loads for electrical analytical components
- Flow and pressure drop calculations
Cloud data & interoperability
- Link coordination models from Autodesk Docs
- Manage links dialog for coordination models
- Access properties of coordination model objects
- Point snaps for coordination model objects
- Collaboration cache relocation for cloud models
- Link and Import PDF in Revit LT and Design Automation API
- Revit to Robot Link enhancements
Design optimization
- Dynamo for Revit 2.17 upgrade
- Dynamo Player & Generative Design updates
- Dynamo Player & Generative Design samples
- Improved steel connections SDK documentation
- Revit additional resizable dialogs
- Revit Macro security improvements
- API enhancements for developers
Documentation efficiency
- Place multiple views and schedules on a sheet
- Move aligned to sheet enhancements
- Open sheet directly from drawing area
- Schedule revision clouds
- Align patterns on shaped-edited surfaces
- Bar bending details on reinforcement drawings
- Bar bending details in rebar schedules
- 2D element draw order in 3D families
- Resize all schedule rows
- Enable removal of unit symbol for fraction inches
My Insights in Revit Home
- New My Insights tab in Revit home page
- Get personalized insights based on how you work and the work you do
- Learn valuable information (new features, commands and workflows)
- Display through cards
- React to the cards
- Learn more through the link in cards
Fresh from the Factory, Revit 2024 is rolling out globally! In this release, Autodesk has combined eagerly anticipated additions, like Site Tools for landscape designers, with highly requested enhancements from the community, like Dark Theme and a more modern user interface.
Here are three of the highlights from the new version:
Introducing Site Tools for Revit & Revit LT.
This new toolset supports the design and documentation of richly detailed landscapes. You can use Site Tools to:
- Collect and rationalize existing conditions data from CAD Imports, CSV point files, and more.
- Model your design intent freely and easily, with versatile site and massing tools for modeling topography.
- Populate schedules, sheets, and views and calculate material quantities. Cut, fill, join, and run phasing scenarios. Use the design-to-documentation engine of Revit to save time and improve design quality when modeling landscape and site conditions.
Save time in concrete detailing.
Structural engineers and rebar detailers have new capabilities for creating, scheduling, and documenting rebar. Use the new bar bending details to:
- Create reinforcement drawings and schedules with detailed fabrication instructions. With this new tool in Revit, when the model changes, the details adapt along with it.
- Add and customize rebar bending details so that your views and sheets respect your typical practice.
- Reduce errors and omissions in your document sets.
Evolve work together.
Link Coordination Model from Autodesk Docs into Revit makes it easier for project teams to sync and coordinate design deliverables. Keep project files light and teams on the same page.
- Link models and views from any of the 60+ formats supported by Docs and the Autodesk Construction Cloud directly into Revit.
- Underlay the coordination model as visual reference when designing in Revit.
- Reduce the need for interpretation when coordinating up-to-date design deliverables with partners and project teams.
Introducing Revit 2024
Fresh from the Factory, Revit 2024 is rolling out globally! In this release, Autodesk has combined eagerly anticipated additions, like Site Tools for landscape designers, with highly requested enhancements from the community, like Dark Theme and a more modern user interface.
Here are three of the highlights from the new version:
Introducing Site Tools for Revit & Revit LT.
This new toolset supports the design and documentation of richly detailed landscapes. You can use Site Tools to:
- Collect and rationalize existing conditions data from CAD Imports, CSV point files, and more.
- Model your design intent freely and easily, with versatile site and massing tools for modeling topography.
- Populate schedules, sheets, and views and calculate material quantities. Cut, fill, join, and run phasing scenarios. Use the design-to-documentation engine of Revit to save time and improve design quality when modeling landscape and site conditions.
Save time in concrete detailing.
Structural engineers and rebar detailers have new capabilities for creating, scheduling, and documenting rebar. Use the new bar bending details to:
- Create reinforcement drawings and schedules with detailed fabrication instructions. With this new tool in Revit, when the model changes, the details adapt along with it.
- Add and customize rebar bending details so that your views and sheets respect your typical practice.
- Reduce errors and omissions in your document sets.
Evolve work together.
Link Coordination Model from Autodesk Docs into Revit makes it easier for project teams to sync and coordinate design deliverables. Keep project files light and teams on the same page.
- Link models and views from any of the 60+ formats supported by Docs and the Autodesk Construction Cloud directly into Revit.
- Underlay the coordination model as visual reference when designing in Revit.
- Reduce the need for interpretation when coordinating up-to-date design deliverables with partners and project teams.
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GPD WinMax 2 Mini laptop for BIM work
We’ve all used large Laptop Workstations. These behemoths while capable to run CAD/BIM software turn out not to be the best for portable work. Mainly due to their size/weight and battery life. Sometimes we need a light alternative that can be used on the go. Over the years I’ve used smaller notebooks, ultrabooks. Usually 14″ or 13″ laptops that have a good balance of performance and battery life. In this category I’ve owned Dell’s XPS 13″, or LG Gram 14″, iPads, and Chromebooks. All are lightweight but each has their own deficiencies. The Windows PC’s will trade performance for battery life. The iOS/Android options will need to remote into the office to run CAD/BIM software which can slow things down specially over slow connections.
The GPD Win Max 2 is a small form factor laptop designed for portability and performance, and it offers a number of benefits for users who need a powerful and portable device. Here are some of the pros of the GPD Win Max 2 for portability and performance:
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- Small form factor: The GPD Win Max 2 is a compact laptop that can easily fit into a bag or backpack, making it ideal for people who are always on the go. It weighs just 790g, making it one of the lightest and most portable gaming laptops on the market.
- High performance: Despite its small size, the GPD Win Max 2 offers impressive performance thanks to its powerful AMD Ryzen 7 4800U processor and Radeon Vega 8 graphics. It can be purchased with 32GB of RAM and 1TB M2 SSD. This allows it to handle demanding applications and games with ease.
- Long battery life: The GPD Win Max 2 features a large 57Wh battery that can last up to 8 hours on a single charge, making it ideal for long flights or commutes.
- Plenty of ports: Despite its small size, the GPD Win Max 2 has a variety of ports, including USB-C, USB-A, HDMI, and Ethernet, which makes it easy to connect to external displays, peripherals, and networks.
Overall, the GPD Win Max 2 is a great option for anyone who needs a powerful and portable laptop. It offers high performance, long battery life, and a variety of ports, all in a small and lightweight package.
In the gallery below you can compare the Win Max 2 Size to a 14″ MBP. Its roughly 1/2 the size!
One very nice feature is that you can pick the Thermal Design Power (TDP) in watts, and refers to the power consumption under the maximum theoretical load.
So if you’re responding to emails or just web browsing you can select a very low value such as 5w. This increases the battery life of the system.
