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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

Revit plugins

There are many Revit plugins on the Autodesk App Store, and we will highlight some of the best plugins to improve productivity and create new workflows when working in Revit.

We have divided the plugins into two categories:

  • Productivity
  • Visualization

Productivity plugins

We will give a short description of each plugin to explain how it can benefit your daily activities in Revit. The plugins are from both the Autodesk App Store and developers. We recommend you download the plugins for testing and further learning:

  • DiRoots plugins: DiRoots provides a collection of excellent, free Revit plugins, and they can also create custom plugins based on your requirements. The ProSheets plugin can batch print PDF files with the correct naming convention.

    A link to the plugins is as follows: https://bit.ly/3pB88Xp:

Figure 9.9 – Revit plugins from DiRoots

  • RTV Tools: RTV Tools has a plugin called RTV Xporter to...