BE MORE EFFICIENT WITH BIM FOR INFRASTRUCTURE

Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an intelligent 3D model-based process that enables accurate, accessible, and actionable insight for better-informed decisions across the project lifecycle. The Autodesk® Infrastructure Design Suite provides comprehensive, industry-leading solutions for both CAD and BIM workflows in one flexible, cost-effective package—giving civil engineers the tools they need to accelerate design work, collaborate anytime from anywhere, and communicate in new ways. Autodesk's comprehensive portfolio of industry-leading...

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Design Options in Revit 2014

What is Design Option? As a designer, you need to come up with multiple design ideas, so that you can select the best option that suits the functional, aesthetical, and economical requirement of your project. Therefore, you need to develop and evaluate several design options and then execute the best possible design option for your project. Advantage of Design Options? The Design Options helps you speed up your project by providing you the options to create and develop several alternatives of a single model. For example, you can use...

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What Is Meant by Parametric?

About Parametrism The term parametric refers to the relationships among all elements of the model that enable the coordination and change management that Revit provides. These relationships are created either automatically by the software or by you as you work. In mathematics and mechanical CAD, the numbers or characteristics that define these kinds of relationships are called parameters; hence, the operation of the software is parametric....

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Autodesk Inventor 2014: Export in Revit (new features)

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Revit and Autodesk Inventor Interoperability

Introduction Autodesk Inventor 2014 has added capability to enhance the interoperability with Autodesk Revit in the BIM workflow. In this webcast you will see how using Inventor’s new BIM Simplify tools you can now get a Part ready to export to a .RFA to be used in Revit. A native Revit Family file can be exported using Export Building Components in the BIM Exchange environment for Part documents. In addition, Connectors, Properties, Parameters, Orientation, Category and Insertion Point information can be added to the Revit Family file format. An...

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Creating Building Pads in Revit

The terrain is called a “Toposurface” in Revit, and an Autodesk Revit “Building Pad” will automatically cut through a toposurface.  Usually this cutting boundary follows an outline of your building’s basement walls or follows along a retaining wall. The building pad is a toposurface hosted element and can be added only to an existing topographical surface. This Building Pad tool will be activated in the Model Site panel only if there is an...

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Project Octopus: Autodesk

About: Project Octopus is a free technology preview that allows designers and engineers using Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis to seamlessly access data and results with Microsoft Office Excel. Overview Project Octopus helps designers to easily develop "user defined" calculations that complement Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis results. Project Octopus is fully integrated in Microsoft Office Excel as an Addin and allows accessing data and...

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