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Increasing Autodesk Revit Productivity for BIM Projects

By : Fabio Roberti, Decio Ferreira
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Increasing Autodesk Revit Productivity for BIM Projects

By: Fabio Roberti, Decio Ferreira

Overview of this book

Increasing Autodesk Revit Productivity for BIM Projects takes a hands-on approach to implementing Revit effectively for everyone curious about this new and exciting methodology. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, this Revit book begins by explaining the principles of productivity in Revit and data management for BIM projects. You'll get to grips with the primary BIM documentation to start a BIM project, including the contract, Exchange Information Requirements (EIR), and BIM Execution Plan (BEP/BXP). Later, you'll create a Revit template, start a Revit project, and explore the core functionalities of Revit to increase productivity. Once you've built the foundation, you'll learn about Revit plugins and use Dynamo for visual programming and Power BI for analyzing BIM information. By the end of this book, you'll have a solid understanding of Revit as construction and design software, how to increase productivity in Revit, and how to apply multiple workflows in your project to manage BIM.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Enhancing Your Productivity in Revit with Data Management and Templates
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Section 2: Setting Up Revit Projects Efficiently and Exploring Core Functionalities
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Section 3: Adding Visualizations and Dashboards to Your Data
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Section 4: Collaborating with Consultants and Plugins and Improving Revit Performance

Chapter 9: Enhancing Productivity with Plugins

Revit plugins can enhance productivity by providing new functionalities and can expand the current Revit tools. Third-party plugins work in the full Revit version, but unfortunately, the Revit LT version does not support them.

Plugins are simple to implement as it does not require programming skills to develop or use a specific application. The installation process is straightforward, and we will learn how to manage Revit plugins to avoid potential conflicts and a reduction in Revit performance.

We will learn how to enable and disable Revit plugins to test performance or if the plugin is crashing Revit projects. We will find many exciting plugins in the Revit Autodesk App Store to improve productivity from multiple areas and disciplines. We can also find plugins directly from the developer websites, which will be presented in this chapter.

There are many free plugins available, but some of the paid plugins can also provide you...