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What is BIM?
Lets start with a definition of BIM – Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a process for creating and managing information for the construction of built assets. I think this can be simplified and you can think of BIM has being made up of 2 parts. 1. creating a ‘data rich…
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Visual Programming and Architectural Design – How to incorporate into a Practice.
I have been using Visual Programming Tools in Architecture for over 10 years. They have been a tremendous help to me in my career and I wish to collect here some of my opinions on how I think they can best be used in the Architectural Design industry. Firstly I…
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What is Rhino.Inside? (Revit)
McNeel Europe the company behind the Rhino and Grasshopper software tools have recently released a new tool called Rhino.Inside. This tool brings the power and flexibility of Rhino/Grasshopper inside other software such as Revit. We at GS Arch use Revit on a daily basis and so I created a PPT…
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There and back again (Revit-Excel-Revit)
On most projects the design team is made up of ourselves the Architects and other consultants such as M&E Engineers and Structural Engineers. We work in a collaborative way with these other consultants to deliver the design. This involves a lot of sharing of information. Often this is native models…
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Finding lost CAD links with Dynamo
On larger projects we often need to link multiple CAD drawings into the model. In Revit when you link CAD you can choose to link into a single view or the entire model. It is advisable for most workflows to link the CAD into a single view. However this does…
SJM Studio Leeds 