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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

Shared Views

Shared Views are a new feature for Revit 2021.1 that you can use to share 3D views with your design team and consultants for review and comments.

The Shared Views tool only works for users with Revit subscription licenses, and it will not work for maintenance licenses and Revit trial versions. This tool is handy to use with non-Revit users such as project managers and directors to quickly visualize a model via the web browser.

Follow these steps to learn about shared views:

  1. Open a Revit file and go to the 3D view. This tool only works in the 3D view, and you have to be logged in to your Autodesk account to use this tool.
  2. In the Collaborate tab, select Shared Views:

    Figure 8.27 – Coordination Review

  3. A new window will appear, and we can click on New Shared View:

    Figure 8.28 – New Shared View

  4. Type the shared view name and click Share:

    Figure 8.29 – Shared view name

  5. Revit will upload the model to Autodesk Viewer, and when the...