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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

Introducing Dynamo

Productivity in business is a significant factor for a company's performance. Increasing productivity is a process for working smarter in a pre-defined time frame to match your project deadline.

Productivity methodologies are as follows:

  • Time management
  • Tasks completed by the workforce
  • Personal performance
  • Ratio to manufacture a product

Dynamo will increase productivity by improving your performance to complete a repetitive task and work with complex geometry.

Dynamo is an open source application that can be used as a standalone Sandbox or connected with other software, such as Revit, Maya, Civil3D, or any other application that has an API (short for Application Programming Interface) available.

It is designed to expand Revit's capability by automating processes and workflows. It will not add new tools to Revit, but it will help to automate existing tools for almost unlimited tasks and modeling processes.

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