My New favorite Revit Error

I'm not sure what it means, but it came followed by about fifty others. I just held down the enter key to plow through them.

Side note;

Santa was good to me with some extra time for the new year. Look forward to me posting again.

IES Adds Integration to Sketch Up and Revit through GBXML

IES has adding a new suite of tools meant mostly for architects for early-stage environmental design analysis. They are accessing Revit and Sketch Up through GBXML. These guys are looking to corner the market in my opion, and good for them I guess. Read about it here.

Minmum BIM

I was browsing through the ample pages of the National BIM Standard produced by NIBS and came across a thing called the Capability Maturity Model. It's a spread sheet for determining how much you are, ah... BIMing and what is minimum BIM. You can download the Minimum BIM spreadsheet here.

It is complex, but all the information you need to start is in the spread sheet itself. I wish I scored a tad bit higher, but we all have to start somewhere I guess. I found a much longer article with Way More information. It's worth reading if you found this at all interesting.

AIA BIM Documents Announced

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) has announced the upcoming release of six new AIA Contract Documents on October 17, 2008, including a new Building Information Modeling (BIM) exhibit, as well as two new Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) agreements, two new Design-Build agreements and a Scope of Services document. 

These new documents, collectively called the 3.5 Release, begin to address the working relationships between parties when incorporating BIM technologies moving toward Integrated Practice. See the official announcement here.

Super Nudge

I just discovered that if you hold the shift key down while using the arrow keys on your keyboard to nudge selected objects, each nudge will be about three times the normal nudge.

This is nice when you prefer not to zoom out for a bigger nudge.

The more I type nudge the dumber it sounds :)