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45 Revit tips in 45 minutes

The time has finally come! The Autodesk 2013 products were released on 27th March 2012. The AEC industry has been eagerly awaiting the news of new features and programs almost since the release of the 2012 products, and this year, it certainly sounds like Autodesk have exceeded themselves. As the NDA was lifted yesterday, a lot of the folks working over at Autodesk have been going blog mad about the new features, which I love! 

Autodesk Virtual event today which will be show casing the new 2013 products and talking about how BIM is effecting the AEC industries. Should be a great event, starts at 17:00 and ends at 21:00 GMT. Looking forward to seeing some new features, and hearing the pespective of the Autodesk team.

Autodesk Revit Architecture 2013 - Construction Modeling 

Autodesk Revit 2013 extends the capability to support construction modeling by allowing further customization with parts. Parts can now be merged, excluded and restored. Two or more parts can be merged into a single part. Exclusions will remove parts from the project similar to the way elements can be excluded from a group, and finally excluded parts can be restored at any time.

So I was recently logged in to the Autodesk student community. I found a link to some different support and tutorial files which were provided by Autodesk. Along with this was an advertisement for a 7 month free trial with CADLearning. I decided to look into the tutorials and service that CADLearning provided. After a short while I realised that the courses were very in depth, with a lot of different tutorials, covering a wide range of "topics" in Revit Architecture. Ranging from the very basics, project set up, walls, curtain walls etc. To the more complicated and useful: scheduling, phasing, worksets and collaboration. Each one of these "chapters" or "topics" comes with a series of tutorials explaining the different aspects of each topic. 

Today I am just posting a short blog post about Autodesk's BIM curriculum, which contains some useful videos and tutorials I found a while back on Autodesk's website. I have worked through the curriculum and found many elements of it to be extremely useful. For newly graduated students, and anyone who is new to the process of BIM, I would highly reccomend this 'BIM curriculum' as a good starting point to bring you up to date with what you need to know.  

BIM 360 is a new technology recently released from Autodesk, A seemingly useful tool for BIM managers for overall project review and mark up. It is based on the Autodesk Vault technology, and is likely to be a key tool for future BIM projects. 

Working along side existing technologies such as Revit, BIM 360 allows users to merge and align models, review clashes, reviewing model and integrating with CMiC. If you are already creating projects in Autodesks - Revit, Navisworks or AutoCAD there is a simple add in which you can download that will then get added to the addins menu on your ribbon. Simply click on this button in the ribbon to begin reviewing the project in Autodesk 360.

Autodesk labs must have been hard at work recently with a number of exciting and very interesting add-ins which have been released over the past week or so. I will be discussing 'Augmented Reality' for Showcase 2013 today and move on to speaking about Maximo for Revit over the weekend - Both completely different but each with their own value to me.

An update to Autodesk's BIM Curriculum has been released, and this time focusing mainly on the sturctural sides of BIM. This curriculum helps aspiring civil and structural engineers master engineering design and analysis, and structural modeling while promoting new ways of working to create sustainable design and construction.

So, we heard the news yesterday that a new version of Revit has been released by Autodesk. Nothing to get excited about if you are already an owner of a full vanilla Revit installation, but possibly something to look forward to if you are a small business trying to get your foot in the Revit door. 

I am excited to report the release date of the eagerly awaited M-SIX VEO software has been announced. Over the last year there have been a lot of promises about what VEO is going to offer and how it is going to be a game changer in the AEC industry. With this recent news, we are not so far away from finding out if these promises will come to fruition.