Revit 2014-Stairs Creation

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Revit MEP 2014---Quick Start with a Project

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Quick Start Project in Revit MEP

Starting a New Project in MEP
The following are the topics covered in this tutorial:
1. Starting a New Project
2. Selecting a Template
3. Setting the Project Units
4. Setting the Location
5. Setting the Drawing area
6. Linking an Architectural Model
7. Re-organizing the Browser
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4AZkRWJS9g&feature=share



This will help you to start a new project and work in an integral model in Revit Model.

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BIM 360-Software for Construction Collaboration and Management

Autodesk® BIM 360™ transforms the way construction data is collected, connected, visualized, and managed. This cloud-based software combines cloud and mobile technologies to manage your data from preconstruction to the field. Improve construction collaboration to prevent issues and drive higher quality and profitability.

It has two solutions: BIM 360 Field and BIM 360 Glue.

BIM 360 Field

It is a construction field data management software.

Field data management, commissioning, and handover.

BIM 360 Field software (formerly Vela Systems) is construction field management software that combines mobile technologies at the point of construction with cloud-based collaboration and reporting. Turn your field data into information that improves quality, safety, and profitability for construction and capital projects. This is a cloud-based service.

BIM 360 Glue

Online BIM coordination and management

BIM 360 Glue is an online BIM coordination and management service that provides anytime, anywhere access to connected project information. Accelerate multidiscipline collaboration, reduce coordination review cycles, and improve project efficiency.

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Welcome to Project Vasari & Green Building Studio

            Autodesk Vasari is introduced by Giorgio Vasari. Project Vasari is a lighter version of Revit Architecture. This is an easy-to-use expressive design tool and is primarily introduced for creating building concepts and to provide analysis for energy and carbon.

Project Vasari focuses on conceptual building design using both geometric and parametric modeling. It basically creates, analyze and refine whole building models. It studies about climate, shadow and solar radiations as well. The most important design decisions are made depending upon the design analysis.

Green building Studio is a web based tool. It helps in analyzing whole building energy, water, and carbon content. It can be analyzed for anywhere like US, UK and so on.

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How AutoCAD Started

Begining

AutoCAD is a software application for 2D and 3D computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting — available since 1982 as a desktop application and since 2010 as a mobile web- and cloud-based app, currently marketed as AutoCAD 360.  Developed and marketed by Autodesk, Inc. AutoCAD was first released in December 1982 — having been purchased a year prior in its original form by Autodesk founder John Walker. The software is currently marketed in its eighteenth generation.

John Walker---Founder Autodesk

As Autodesk's flagship product, by March 1986 AutoCAD had become the most ubiquitous microcomputer design program worldwide, with functions such as "polylines" and "curve fitting". Prior to the introduction of AutoCAD, most other CAD programs ran on mainframe computers or minicomputers, with each CAD operator (user) working at a graphical terminal or workstation.

AutoCAD is used across a range of industries, including architects, project managers and engineers, among other professions, with 750 training centers established worldwide as of 1994.

History of AutoCAD

AutoCAD was derived from a 1977 program called Interact CAD, which was written in a proprietary language (SPL) by inventor Michael Riddle who later co-founded Autodesk to market AutoCAD.  This early version ran on the Marinchip Systems 9900 computer (Marinchip Systems was owned by Autodesk co-founders John Walker and Dan Drake). While initially Walker and Riddle had a profits-sharing agreement for any product derived from Interact, in the end Walker paid Riddle US$10 million for all the rights.

Michael Riddle --Inventor of Interact CAD

When Marinchip Software Partners (later known as Autodesk) formed, the founders decided to re-code Interact in C and PL/1. They chose C because it seemed to be the biggest upcoming language.[citation needed] In the end, the PL/1 version was unsuccessful. The C version was, at the time, one of the most complex programs in that language. Autodesk had to work with a compiler developer, Lattice, to update C, enabling AutoCAD to run.[4] Early releases of AutoCAD used primitive entities — lines, polylines, circles, arcs, and text — to construct more complex objects. Since the mid-1990s, AutoCAD supported custom objects through its C++ Application Programming Interface (API). AutoCAD uses its own fork of the ACIS geometry modelling kernel. The modern AutoCAD includes a full set of basic solid modeling and 3D tools. The release of AutoCAD 2007 included the improved 3D modeling that provided better navigation when working in 3D. Moreover, it became easier to edit 3D models. The mental ray engine was included in rendering and therefore it is possible to do quality renderings. AutoCAD 2010 introduced parametric functionality and mesh modeling.

The latest AutoCAD releases are AutoCAD 2014 and AutoCAD 2014 for Mac. The 2014 release marked the 28th major release for the AutoCAD for Windows. The 2014 release marked the fourth consecutive year for AutoCAD for Mac.

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Beginning of Revit and Archicad

Founders of the Revolution----Revit

While the developments were happening rapidly in the United States, the Soviet Block had two programming geniuses who would end up defining the BIM market as it is known today. Leonid Raiz and Gábor Bojár would go on to be the respective co-founder and founder of Revit and ArchiCAD. 

Leonid Raiz--- Co-founder Revit

ArchiCAD developed in 1982 in Budapest, Hungary by Gábor Bojár, a physicist who rebelled against the communist government and began a private company. Gábor wrote the initial lines of code by pawning his wife’s jewelry and smuggling Apple Computers through the Iron Curtain (Story). Using similar technology as the Building Description System, the software Radar CH was released in 1984 for the Apple Lisa Operating System. This later became ArchiCAD, which makes ArchiCAD the first BIM software that was made available on a personal computer.

The software was slow to start as Bojár had to struggle with a unfriendly business climate and the limitations of personal computer software, so ArchiCAD was not used on large scale projects until much later. ArchiCAD has made substantial gains in user base from 2007-2011, mainly as a tool for developing residential and small commercial projects in Europe. Recent improvements have made ArchiCAD a major player in the market though fundamental issues such as a lack of a phasing component and a complicated (but flexible) programming environment for its family components using GDL (Geometric Description Language) remain. To date, Graphisoft claims that more than 1,000,000 projects worldwide have been designed using ArchiCAD.

David Connant-First Architect of Revit

Not long after Graphisoft began to sell the first seats of Radar CH, Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) was founded in 1985 and released the first version of Pro/ENGINEER in 1988. This is a mechanical CAD program that utilizes a constraint based parametric modeling engine. Equipped with the knowledge of working on Pro/ENGINEER, Irwin Jungreis and Leonid Raiz split from PTC and started their own software company called Charles River Software in Cambridge, MA. The two wanted to create an architectural version of the software that could handle more complex projects than ArchiCAD. They hired David Conant as their first employee, who is a trained architect and designed the initial interface which lasted

for nine releases. By 2000 the company had developed a program called ‘Revit’, a made up word that is meant to imply revision and speed, which was written in C++ and utilized a parametric change engine, made possible through object oriented programming. In 2002, Autodesk purchased the company and began to heavily promote the software in competition with its own object-based software ‘Architectural Desktop’.

Revit revolutionized the world of Building Information Modeling by creating a platform that utilized a visual programming environment for creating parametric families and allowing for a time attribute to be added to a component to allow a fourth-dimension of time to be associated with the building model. This enables contractors to generate construction schedules based on the BIM models and simulate the construction process. One of the earliest projects to use Revit for design and construction scheduling was the Freedom Tower project in Manhattan. This project was completed in a series of separated but linked BIM models which were tied to schedules to provide real-time cost estimation and material quantities. Though the construction schedule of the Freedom Tower has been racked with political issues, improvements in coordination and efficiency on the construction site catalyzed the development of integrated software that could be used to view and interact with architects, engineers and contractors models in overlay simultaneously.

Towards a

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