Callout View

A callout view is used to display an enlarged view of a part of a building model. This view is important for detailing. Creating callout view is a common practice amongst engineers as it helps them to view the project more precisely and with a higher detail. In an architectural project, callout is used to show details of the basic building elements in a model. You can create callout in plan view or in elevation view. Note that, the callout tag added to these views will be linked to the callout view.

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Callout Created Using Rectangle Tool

As you are aware callout view is used to give a detailed description about section of a model around which it is drawn. To create a rectangular callout view, invoke the Rectangle tool from the Callout drop-down in the Create panel; the Modify | Callout tab will be displayed. In the Properties Palette, the Type Selector drop-down list displays the type of callout view to be generated.

Callout Created Using Sketch Path Tool

In Autodesk Revit, you can create a customized callout view by using the draw tools. To do so, invoke the Sketch Path tool from the Create panel of the View tab; the Modify | Edit Profile tab will be displayed. In the Draw panel of this tab, the Line tool is selected by default. You can also select other sketching tools to create a callout of desired type. Next, choose the Finish Edit Mode button to exit the Modify | Edit Profile tab. In the Properties Palette, the Type Selector drop-down list displays the type of callout view to be generated. 

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Revit-Series by CADCIM Technologies

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Project Location- Vasari

When you create a project it is possible to specify the geographic location using the street address or the latitude and longitude. This is useful for generating location-specific shadows for views that use them, such as solar studies and walkthroughs. The location provides a basis for weather information, which is used during conceptual energy analysis.

To specify the project location, Analyze tab  > Project Location panel > Location. When your computer is connected to the Internet, and you have signed in to Autodesk online services, this dialog displays an interactive map through the Google Maps mapping service. To sign in see Autodesk Account.

Until you specify a different project location, the location is set to the longitude and latitude of the major city specified by Vasari for your locale.

For the Project Address, enter the street address, city and country. For Example-  Enter: Fulton Street & Pearl Street, Woodbridge Township, NJ 07095, USA

Click Import Site Image to import the Google map image of your location into your project file.

You can also access this dialog from the Sun Settings dialog, the Energy Settings dialog or in the drawing area, underneath the ViewCube, click the current location > Set Location.

Use the following tools to adjust the map as needed:

§  Pan. When you place the cursor over the map, the cursor changes to a hand, and you can drag the map to pan the view. For Zoom, Click + (Zoom in) or - (Zoom out), or drag the zoom slider to adjust the zoom level.

§  Map. Shows street map.

§  Satellite. Shows satellite imagery.

§  Terrain. Default view. Shows street map superimposed on topographical map.

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Adaptive Components---Vasari

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Curtain Panel Pattern Based- Autodesk Vasari

Vasari Introduction
Project Vasari is a standalone application that expands on the Revit conceptual mass family interface. Autodesk Project Vasari facilitates you with the curtain panel pattern based family. In this, you can create families of different shapes and patterns. Decorative panel can be obtained from the curtain panel pattern based family. These are project hosted elements. You can create panel and then it is to be loaded either on the adaptive component or in project environment.

Steps to Create Family and load it in Adaptive Component Family.

1.     Open the Curtain Panel Pattern Based Family from the Application Menu.

2.     The Rectangular curtain panel is displayed, by default.

3.     Choose the pattern and then change that pattern into rhomboid from the Type Selector drop-down list.

4.     The pattern is converted into rhomboid structure and change the Vertical spacing to 15’ in the Properties palette.

                              

5.     Now, place a point on the pattern and set the work plane vertically on that point. 

6.     Accordingly, draw the rectangle on that workplane.

        

                                       

7.     Now, choose the drawn rectangle and the rhomboid pattern and then choose the Solid Form tool from the Create Form drop-down; the new pattern is formed.

           

8.     Now, load the project into the adaptive component family.

9.      After loading the family, draw any solid form and divide the surface.

10.   Now, select the complete element and select the family from the Properties palette.       

11.  The Family is loaded and the Curtain Panel Pattern based component is created.

              

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Barriers to Building Information Modeling

Barriers to BIM
The ultimate objective is to build an integrated BIM—a virtual building before we make expensive mistakes with concrete, glass and steel. But tradition, contractual separation, archaic laws, technical limitations, interoperability problems and culture hinder us.

Software and hardware constraints: A BIM model theoretically has unlimited ability to hold information. But any practical project model will fall short of what is theoretically possible. Despite faster and faster computers and more efficient software, the model slows down as it enlarges.

Cost practicalities: At some point, it becomes impractical to add detail to the model. We still assume the builder will use some judgment in the field. A drawing doesn’t need to show all the nail locations in a wood frame.

Universal adaption: The fruition of BIM will depend on widespread use by designers, contractors and manufacturers. But until trade contractors and manufacturers are operational with BIM, we will limp along with incomplete integration.

Interoperability: Any CM or PM that has managed a program that included multiple architects and multiple CMs has faced the frustrating problems of interoperability in trying to integrate data from different project management information systems. It is hard to share data between Autodesk’s Constructware, e-Builder and Meridian’s Prolog. The same problem exists with BIM software.
A fully integrated BIM model is a vision, not a reality. At current levels of development, architects engineers, consultants, builders and fabricators may have independent BIM models, legacy CAD systems and legacy paper systems. Those who use BIM software may not use the same programs

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BIM Model Management

Managing a BIM Model

Managing a Building Information Model is similar to managing an actual model in site.  A construction manager must understand the technology of construction. But the more crucial job is orchestrating the work of hundreds of organizations—coordinating the assembly of materials on-site with decision-making, sequencing, and supply chain management.

Most of a project is built off-site. If the on-site management team doesn’t manage the off-site activities there will be delays. Managing the interrelationships is as important as understanding the technology of the work. In the simplest sense, it doesn’t do any good for a construction superintendent to know about forming and finishing concrete if the concrete truck isn’t scheduled for delivery at the right time.

A BIM model has similar requirements. Managing the development of a virtual construction model requires skills that are similar to managing the real thing. Too often BIM production is staffed with people who understand BIM technology but don’t understand how to manage the workflow from multiple sources.

The management job requires setting BIM standards, understanding constructibility and construction sequence, evaluating supply chain data and vetting information that is submitted to be input into the model. But most of all, it requires understanding how to suck this information from multiple sources into an integrated model. The manager must have clout in the organization to get the attention of the extended IPD team to schedule information flow, analysis and problem solving. And since inputs to a BIM model may ricochet through the model, the manager must review and evaluate the accuracy of inputs—just as a CFO ensures that there are procedures to evaluate the inputs of financial information before they are posted to a general ledger.

A BIM model manager requires the support of the IPD management committee who must set policies to adopt the technology, buy and install the software for members who do not have it, train the team, champion the use. Finally, they will need to establish workflows for a BIM process that may be developed by the BIM model manager.

An IPD team needs a BIM manager and an interdisciplinary BIM team staffed with people from member firms. The BIM team integrates drawings from the AEs, subs and manufacturers. They develop 4D and 5D models. They detect coordination problems with clash detection routines. Constructibility reviews trigger design adjustments—made with the collaboration of the AEs. RFIs are anticipated and if collaboration ongoing, should be minimal. In developing the model, questions surface before construction.

The BIM model manager must be a person with good interpersonal skills to build the collaborative culture required to produce an integrated BIM model. The manager must build trust and networks of personal communication within the contracting team. As with real construction, the more personal contact and the more trust, the more collaboration. BIM allows trust to be built early, well before construction begins. There’s an opportunity to allocate model space to each subcontractor to give them confidence that the process will not only find clashes in their systems before they get to the field, but that the sub will have the ability to model the clearances and working space needed to install their work.

Architects have typically been the primary source of BIM models, fulfilling their traditional role in developing the drawings and specifications that document the product—the description of the design, the intended physical result.

CMs have usually taken the lead in providing project management information (PMIS) systems—gathering and integrating data from the extended project team. These systems have concentrated on process—tracking contractual matters such as cost, schedule and quality control; RFIs and change orders.

But now CMs are developing in-house BIM teams and are developing BIM models prior to construction.2

Eventually, it is likely that an IPD Core Team will build integrated groups to produce integrated documents. Clearly, managing virtual construction will require technical knowledge of both process and product. Virtual construction will require AEs with product expertise and CMs with process expertise. 

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