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On this episode of BIM After Dark Live I was joined by Carl Storms (The BIMsider) to talk about his completion of the 100 Days of AI challenge. What did he learn? Should Architects, Engineers, and Contractors do the challenge? Would he do it again!?
**Spoiler Alert** - We forgot to talk about the "AI Sandwich" ... haha!
Well, that was fun...
Last night I opened Revit 2025 for the first time... Live! We walked through some of the highlighted new features, tried them out, and gave some commentary. The chat was very active and the features are very promising...
I highlighted some of the new Toposolid enhancements, text/annotation improvements, family improvements, auto-join walls, and more...
Click here to view the replay now...
On last night’s episode of BIM After Dark Live we welcomed Dan Peterson of “Revit Wizard”. Dan was kind enough to teach us all how to build our OWN Custom GPTs and demonstrate how “Revit Wizard” (his own custom GPT) is helping teach new Revit users at his firm…
Be sure to check out the replay here…
On this episode of BIM After Dark Live (Autodesk Construction Cloud: Beyond Revit Worksharing) I welcome back Scott Davis to expand on Autodesk Construction Cloud ("ACC"). Many of you know of the term (or know of "BIM360") and use it for Revit Cloud Worksharing... As great as the Revit Cloud Worksharing is (and it is great), you may not know about all of the other incredible features ACC has to offer... We will dig into how you can take full advantage of the tool you are paying quite a bit of money for... and take live questions along the way..
Some of the things we plan to touch on include:
Insight - Power BI templates
Markups in issues
Bridge
Sheet Collections
Locations - Import From Revit
Correspondence
Download PDFs from Build
...and more!
Click here to view the episode now....
Also, don't forget to check out Scott's previous episode here...
On this episode of BIM After Dark Live I walked through my Revit template for custom residential architecture.
So many of the Revit template examples and downloads available are focused on larger commercial projects. I wanted to create a streamlined, minimal, and effective template that was optimized for small-scale residential design and construction. This template will give you everything you need to quickly create a model and set of construction documents for your 400 square foot home additions... not your 4 million square foot hospitals!
This template is exclusively available to members of the BIM After Dark Community.
Text notes, dimensions, schedules, line styles, and more that all look graphically compelling right out of the box.
ONLY the view templates, line styles, detail components, families, wall types, and just the content you NEED to start your single family residential projects in Revit.
Minimalist, "retro" style titleblocks and cover sheets built in.
Schedules, key schedules, note blocks (with annotation families), and more to help you quickly generate your construction documents.
A fully comprehensive sample project of a 400 SF addition with all views, sheets, details, and information included!
A project browser that is simple to use and organize (as well as customize!).
Graphic display settings for your 3D and 2D views that will improve the quality and comprehension of all of your Revit views.
.... and more....
Click here to become a member and download the template AND sample file today...
Special guest Aaron Maller (Parallax Team) returns to the show to talk about real-world multi-family / mixed use projects in Revit. With a focus on documentation, Aaron will walk through his teams approach to detailing, linking, grouping, and documenting an insanely large multi-family project!
If you missed it be sure to check out the replay here...
Well then... you know your guest has been dropping some great nuggets when the Paul Aubin has this to say in the chat: "that's friggin cool"...
If you missed this episode, definitely check out the replay!
Some of the topics Brian touched on included:
- Create intelligent details using Detail Items and tags, no text or lines
- Link 2D details to Model components via Global Parameters
- Link 2D details into multiple Revit files such that they all update
Click here to view the replay now...
Links to similar Presentations from Brian:
Detailing in Revit Part 1 2012 August https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9TDD6Lbpqo&t=50s
Detailing in Revit Part 2 2012 September https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBcNt48MiFI&t=26s
Detailing in Revit Part 3 2012 October https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZzRhNCpqUo&t=72s
Detailing in Revit Part 1 2013 October https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBSvTIY_zVI&t=7s
Detailing in Revit Part 2 2013 November https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK3xXOrFhKw&t=46s
Detailing in Revit Part 3 2014 January https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oKzlqM9RJA&t=32s
Creating Intelligent Details 2020 September https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmKKnfyxmII
Nicolas from Revit Pure joined me last night to demonstrate some advanced Revit family creation concepts. Some of the topics included...
- Strategies to simplify formulas in Revit for family creation
- Use a trick to use text as a condition in If statements in Revit family creation
- Protect your Revit families dimensions with secret formulas
- Using lookup tables to avoid lengthy and complicated formulas
Oh, and he may or may not have made a cocktail live, on air!
To wire, or not to wire... That is the question....
No, it's not... YOU SHOULD ALWAYS WIRE!
Brenton Wiberg, of RevitFamily.biz, joined me on last night's episode of BIM After Dark Live to talk about making electrical lighting and power plans in Revit (from and Architect's perspective). Brenton went through 3 methods of approaching these plans and talked about the pros and cons of each...
This is one episode that I think EVERYONE will take a little something away from...
Be sure to check out the replay here...
On last night's episode of BIM After Dark Live I ran through the tools, processes, and lessons learned from my experience as both the Architect and General Contractor while designing and building the BIM After Dark studio home office. If you're using Autodesk Revit as a residential architect or wondering how this "BIM thing" could actually help as a small scale residential contractor this episode is for you! Plus, the story contains an interesting storyline with an unexpected deadline.
I covered:
- Revit Model and Permit Drawing Setup
- Estimating and Financing the Build
- Scheduling Tool I used
- Walked through each stage of construction and pointed out lessons learned and areas where Revit came in handy throughout.
- Whether I did or did not meet the looming deadline....
Click here to watch the episode now...
On this episode of BIM After Dark Live I will be joined by Anthony Remis (of Remis Computer Solutions) to talk about how to build a computer for architects. We will break down the most recent and relevant information on what processors, graphics cards, RAM, hard drives, and more will be best suited for handling all of our CRAZY demands as architects and engineers. From Autodesk Revit to Twinmotion to Navisworks, we require an array of different specs to complete our projects... Anthony will help us prioritize our specs for both laptops and desktops to helps us build the ultimate PC for what we do...
Anthony ended with a great tip on what to look for when picking a laptop as well!
Click here to watch the episode now...
On last night's episode of BIM After Dark Live I have a blast chatting with Alex Gore from F9 Productions... We talked about how his design build firm came to be, how his Revit models and documentation evolved over time, how "building" has changed his approach to models, and he shared a really neat tip for wood framed headers!
Oh... and we talked a bit about AI (artificial intelligence)...
If you missed it live.. the replay can be seen here...
A new season of BIM After Dark Live will be starting next week. This season will be extra special in that the final episode will be episode 100! I've also go a bunch of new and returning guests that I am SUPER excited to chat with....
Check out the lineup below and be sure to subscribe to my channel on YouTube to be notified when we are live...
See you all next week!
Yup, you read the title correctly... On episode 90 I was joined by the one and only Paul Aubin to take on one of the more challenging aspects of Revit... Stairs! Learning how to build stairs correctly in Revit can be a daunting and frustrating task for many... Not anymore!
Whether you are just learning Autodesk Revit or have been using it as long as Paul Aubin has, you'll find something useful in this livestream!
"Respect the run..."
Click here to view a replay of our episode right now...
