It's been a month since I wrote about the work-in-progress McNeel's technology called "Rhino Inside": Will Rhino 7 run inside Revit? And now it is live on GitHub! The Rhino Inside technology allows Rhino and Grasshopper to be embedded within other products, including Revit and…

This summer, the BIMForum released the 2018 Public Comment draft of its Level of Development (LOD) Specification. The previous version was introduced way back in 2016 and is also available for download from the BIMForum website. The Level of Development (LOD) Specification is a reference that enables…

Revizto is a real-time BIM issue tracking software that uses game engine to create interactive 3D environments for collaboration. Revizto supports Revit, Navisworks, AutoCAD, ArchiCAD, Civil 3D, Tekla, SketchUp, Rhino and IFC files converted into Revizto viewer. And the recent update brings the following list…

Revit RFO Benchmark is the free Microsoft PowerShell-based benchmark that analyzes Revit performance. The benchmark has recently been updated to version 3.2, which supports Revit 2019 and comes with the following list of enhancements: Revit RFO Benchmark is available for free download from RevitForum.org (note…

Apidocs.co is an ambitious online project by Gui Talarico, the author of the Revit API website called RevitAPIdocs. Instead of focusing on one particular application, apidocs combines several applications' APIs into one online library with more than 120K unique documents: Apidocs has a clean and…

Navisworks 2019.1 update (available via the Autodesk Desktop App) comes with the following list of bug fixes and improvements: Improvements [LMV] Support .VUE file property. Fixed incorrect IFC Class and Element description in IFC hierarchy. AVEVA E3D import (RVM file format) - missing attributes…

McNeel & Associates have recently published a webpage about the "Rhino Inside" technology, which sounds pretty amazing: Rhino 7 WIP (Work in Progress) can now run inside other 64-bit Windows applications such as Revit, and potentially AutoCAD, Solidworks, Photoshop, Excel, etc. Imagine that you could…

We've been doing iterative clash detection in out projects for years. This is an old-fashioned and time-consuming process, which consists of repetitive manual or semi-automatic tasks: Wouldn't it be great if we could spend our time in a more effective manner? There are actually a…

Revit IFC Manual is a 52-page document, which describes all of the available options for using IFC format within the Revit environment. This is definitely a handy document for everyone working with Open BIM. This document is intended to serve as a guide for Revit…

Conductor is a Revit and Rhino add-in that integrates Trello task management with your models. This add-in has originally been released as paid application (I've already mentioned it in my post last year) by Nathan Miller from provingground, and now it's available for free. Conductor…