Pushing Calculated Values to Tags Using Revit 2017

One of the great new features in Revit 2017 is the ability to push Calculated Values directly into a tag without a special manual entry Shared Parameter. This method works extremely well for Occupancy Calculations and Room Programming exercises. 

In previous versions of Revit, pushing a Calculated Value into a tag was an impossible task because calculated values were not viewed as parameters. The typical workaround has been to create a Shared Parameter for a tag value and add that parameter in the schedule next to the Calculated Value. In order to get the calculated value into a tag, you would then have to manually enter the tag value from the schedule so that the data was in alignment with the calculated value. 

While this method has provided a good-enough workaround, it can be quite labor intensive, especially if there are a lot of fields to manually fill in. Additionally, any changes to the model and calculations would not be reflected in the tag until you revisit the schedule and find the discrepancies between the Calculated Values and the tag values. To quickly find the discrepancies between the Calculated Values and Tag Values, you could create another Calculated Value within your schedule that would report and flag the discrepancies with a color. With the model being an evolutionary document, you end up having to do a lot of coordination throughout the design process, which may make you uncertain about your Revit model data.

With the new workflows in Revit 2017, the need for a manual entry Shared Parameter is no longer necessary, thus simplifying your schedules and coordination. All that is needed is to create a common Shared Parameter that can be used in both the Tag Family and the Revit Project for calculation purposes. Once this is properly set up, the calculations from a Revit project can then be pushed into a tag, allowing it to automatically reflect model and data changes. With this new method, you will be a lot more certain about your Revit model data.

To learn more about this new Revit 2017 feature, be sure to check out this video on our YouTube channel.

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Sash Kazeminejad
AEC Senior Application Specialist 
Sash brings proficiency in Autodesk solutions including AutoCAD and Revit Architecture to Ideate customers. His industry experience includes project management, BIM Management, and design for Architectural firms in California, Montana and Oregon. He is LEED accredited professional and is on track to achieve California licensure with Oregon to follow. In his academic life, Sash was awarded a variety of college scholarships, earned a BA in Environmental Design, a MA in Architecture from Montana State University (MSU) and taught Building Information Modeling courses at MSU Gallatin College. As a Revit Architecture Autodesk Certified Instructor, Sash provides Revit Architecture training and support for AEC firms. Find him on twitter. 

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Revit Architecture: What’s going on with my Lampshade?

Hi folks, IX here, one of the Senior Application Specialists at Ideate, Inc.

So, there I was on support one day (I kid you not) and I receive a call concerning a lamp not rendering as expected in Revit. I immediately thought this would be a great video and blog post.

The Issue
When I render in one of my rooms, with a particular lamp, the lampshade is solid. No light is escaping out of the shade, except for the top and bottom openings. So, what’s going on with my lampshade? This rendering issue ultimately boils down to the material that is assigned to the lampshade, and the lack of transparency for that material.

As I noted above, the outcome will depend on the material assigned to the lampshade. Is it fabric, glass, paper, silk, or Vinyl? Something else? Each type of material will have its own adjustments. For this example, let’s go with Fabric and Glass materials, and the material Transparency options, as solutions.

First, let’s talk transparency. 

Revit’s material transparency section has the following 5 options:

• Amount: This option adjusts the amount of light that passes through a surface rather than reflecting off of, or being absorbed by the surface

• 0% = Completely opaque
• 100% = Completely transparent

• Image: Assigns an image/texture to the material  

• Image Fade: This option controls the composite of the image and transparency amount, (e.g., the white of the image will be transparent at the overall amount and the degree to which the black is opaque is determined by the fade value)

• Translucency: This option adjusts the percentage of the light that is absorbed and retransmitted as it passes through the surface, as though the surface were a back-lit movie screen. 

• 0 = Not translucent
• 100 = Completely translucent, such as frosted glass
• This option is only active when Transparency option has a value greater than 0
• Refraction: This option adjusts the amount that the light bends when it 
• 0 = No Refraction
• 5 = The most refraction available
• This option is active only when the Transparency option has a value greater than 0

The Fabric Solution

When creating this type of material, my intent for the lampshade is to have a fabric material that is somewhat transparent so light will escape out of the shade.

Steps:
1. Duplicate the existing lampshade material
2. Rename new material to an appropriate name
3. Duplicate the Asset
4. Rename the Asset to an appropriate name
5. Select the fabric image file
6. Check on Transparency
7. Set the Amount to 75
8. Set Refraction to Air

The Glass Solution
My intention with the glass lampshade material is to have a color assignment with a level of transparency so light will escape out, and a transparent image will project out.

Steps:
1. Duplicate the existing Glass, Frosted material
2. Rename new material to an appropriate name
3. Duplicate the Asset
4. Rename the asset to an appropriate name
5. Select the appropriate color
6. Check on Transparency
7. Set the Amount to 80
8. Select the appropriate image file
9. Set the Image Fade to 80
10. Set Translucency to 30
11. Set Refraction to Glass

For a more in-depth look into the above steps, check out this short video.

For more information on materials and rendering checkout our e201 online classes on Working with Materials in Revit and Getting Started with Presentations, or sign up for our Revit Beyond the Basics class at one of our Autodesk Authorized Training Center locations.

Cheers,
IX

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Eugene O'Day, IX
AEC Senior Application Specialist
Eugene A. O’Day, IX, with more than 25 years of architectural and mechanical experience, offers a trained focus on all things Revit and BIM. Teaching is a passion of his. Eugene has been an instructor in undergraduate degree programs, has traveled worldwide teaching Autodesk solutions to major corporations, has taught at accredited ATCs throughout the Northwestern region, and is a frequent and popular instructor, speaker, and presenter for AUGI® CAD Camps, Revit – and related product user groups. He has also been a trusted public school district advisor on new drafting instructor hires. At Ideate, Eugene provides training and support for Revit Architecture, Revit Structure and AutoCAD. Eugene is also a Revit Architecture Autodesk Certified Professional.

Finding Missing Revit Mullions

I recently taught an online Revit Fundamentals course, where we had just finished adding Curtain Grids and Mullions to a curtain wall in Revit, when a student had difficulty displaying mullions in a Plan View he had just added to his curtain wall. The Mullions displayed in elevation and 3D views, but not in the plan view. Hmm...

My first thought was to check the Visibility Graphics settings, as that certainly had to be it! Upon quick review, Visibility Graphics had Curtain Wall Mullions turned on. Strike One, that wasn't it.

Next thing to check was the Reveal Hidden Elements (Lightbulb) button. Perhaps the student had used the Hide in View>>Element option in the right-click menu. Revealing Hidden Elements would surely show the missing mullions…Strike Two, that wasn't it either.

In our Revit Fundamentals class, we do not typically introduce Phasing, but because this was a custom class and Phasing was part of the curriculum, it was worth a shot to check it out. Now, because Curtain Grids and Mullions are dependent upon a host Curtain Wall, the phase the Curtain Wall is assigned is automatically transferred to the Curtain Grids and Mullions. As such, the Curtain Grids and Mullions should take on the Phase the Curtain Wall is assigned.

In our case, the Curtain Wall was set to a New Construction Phase, hence the Curtain Wall Grid and Mullions were assigned to the New Construction Phase. Upon inspection of the view, the Phase was set to New Construction, with the Phase Filter set to Show Complete. Combined together, the view should have displayed New Construction elements; in this case, the Mullions. Strike Three…but not enough strikes to call it quits.

Now, one other thing that came to mind in trying to resolve this issue, was that Floor Plan views, by default, display elements as they appear at a 4’-0” cut plane. This is controlled by the Floor Plan Views’ View Range parameter. 

In the Properties Palette, you have to ensure you are looking at the Floor Plan parameters. Scroll down the list of parameters until you come to the Extents Group. The View Range parameter has a large [Edit] button. 

Selecting the button displays the View Range dialog box. The default value for the cut plane is set to 4’-0”. For the student, the Curtain Grid and Mullion were also at the 4’-0” mark, causing the cut plane to cut through the horizontal mullion, not displaying the vertical mullion, as there was a mullion above and below the horizontal mullion. 

Change the value to be either above or below the 4’-0”. In this example, changing the Cut plane to 4’-6” moved the cut plane above the horizontal mullion, allowing the Cut plane to cut through the vertical mullion, thereby displaying it in a Floor Plan view. Success! We had finally discovered where the missing mullions were hiding.

An alternative to adjusting the cut plane for the entire view would be to apply a Plan Region across the curtain wall with its own View Range setting. The use of a Plan Region will override the View Range settings within a view for the area specified by the Plan Region.

Sometimes the smallest fixes in Revit, aren’t always the easiest to identify. Knowing where to look, and the different tools that can control how elements appear in a view, is very helpful. And, sometimes, it can only be accomplished through the process of elimination.

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Ron has 25+ years of experience in the architectural industry as a drafter, designer, lead project designer, trainer, and a CAD manager implementing Autodesk Architectural Solutions for residential design firms. His instructional accomplishments include: Autodesk Certified Instructor (ACI), trainer, support technician, educator at Portland and Clackamas Community Colleges, as well as a U.S. Army certified instructor. Ron holds a BA in Instructional Design suma cum laude, is a member of the Oregon Army National Guard, where he is a First Sergeant of an Infantry Company, specializing in training and mentoring soldiers in their careers, and has been deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Resolute Support. Ron is a published author and continues to write professional technical training manuals and shorts for AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, and Revit. As an Autodesk Certified Instructor and Revit Architecture Autodesk Certified Professional, Ron continues to provide Revit Architecture and AutoCAD training and support for various AEC firms. @RonPalmaAEC

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You take control of your construction projects with Autodesk BIM 360 Docs, which provides full view, redline and markup capability of 2D PDFs, drawings and 3D models, and is built on an Integrated Version Control platform. This platform automatically propagates redlines, markups and issues, ensuring that field personnel are always in-sync and working off the latest versions.
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How to Superelevate a Planar Roadway in Civil 3D 2016

Recently, One of our customers called looking for Ideate technical support on a project where the planar roadway was sloping towards a detention basin. The issue was that the superelevation tool kept giving them the wrong cross slope for areas outside the curve. Good news: all they needed to do was change one setting.

Superelevating a crowned roadway in Civil 3D is common, and you may have used this option in the past. But if you have never superelevated a planar roadway in Civil 3D, there is one trick you'll need to know to make it work.

Keep reading.

As per the figures below, we have an alignment with direction left to right, superelevation diagram and the typical section. 

In this simple assembly, with just two lanes, the important thing to note is that the high side is right ETW.

The trick is to specify the high side in the Calculate Superelevation dialog box > Roadway Type tab > High Side Location drop down. (Refer to the figure below.)

The reason this becomes so important, is if you do not tell Civil 3D where the high side is, Civil 3D will not assign the right lane slope in areas where there is no superelevation. All in all, it works as it is supposed to only when you specify the high side, but if you miss this setting you very well could see problems.

And that’s all you need to know about superelevating planar roadway.

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Senior Application Specialist Infrastructure 

Gaurav is a Senior Application Specialist for Infrastructure Solutions at Ideate based out of San Francisco. He has over 18 years of experience in construction and related software industry. With this extensive design technology background he helps engineering and surveying companies, federal and state government agencies, and ENR 500 firms critically analyze and improve their construction drawing production process. He implements Civil infrastructure design technology led by InfraWorks and Civil 3D and has helped Ideate grow Civil Infrastructure Services. Being an industry recognized speaker he has presented cutting edge design technology at several industry conferences such as Autodesk University. Find Gaurav on Twitter.

What’s up with Autodesk Licensing?

Almost one year into the Autodesk Business Model Transformation, many customers still have questions about licensing. Lately, Autodesk has been using a lot of Autodesk-speak to describe their licensing options. I’m going to help you make the right choices for your company by explaining the options and sharing my thoughts on the best path.

First let’s take a step back. Most likely, unless you just purchased a desktop version of Autodesk software, you have a Perpetual License. You should have received notice that Autodesk will not offer Perpetual Licenses after July 31, 2016. This doesn’t mean that your favorite cad tool is going away; it means that the way you purchase and receive new software from Autodesk will change.

Here’s a quick overview of the three options:

• Perpetual License – Although not offered after July 31, 2016, those with existing Perpetual Licenses can continue to run the specific versions as long as their computers and operating systems allow. Many Perpetual License holders subscribe to a Maintenance Plan to keep their software current.

• Maintenance Plan (Formerly called “Subscription”) – Under this plan, which you can renew annually, you will automatically receive all updates to a Perpetual License. You can stop paying the annual maintenance fee at any time, but then your Perpetual License will remain at the last version. There are additional benefits to this plan, such as support and access to previous versions.

• Desktop Subscription – This will be the only way to purchase Autodesk software after July 31, 2016. It is term-based, and it allows you to operate the software for a specific length of the term. During that term, you will receive all updates. This type of licensing is also called time-based, on-demand, or rental.

I recommend that longtime users keep their Maintenance Plans active, because this option offers the lowest annual recurring cost. To get added protection against increases in annual costs, you can renew your Maintenance Plan for two or three years.

That said, there is no one-size-fits all. Depending on your situation, you may need only Desktop Subscriptions, or you may need a combination of Perpetual Licenses/Maintenance Plans and Desktop Subscriptions.

Contact me if you’d like to discuss these licensing options. And keep an eye out for my next blog post, where I will talk about how the cloud is impacting Autodesk software.

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Director of Sales

John Souza started on the ground floor with Autodesk CAD, selling solutions since release 10. In the nearly 30 years since, he's worked to grow his expertise with each Autodesk solution, weaving a career around cutting-edge 3D design software sales.

He has proven success in building high-performing sales teams in the Civil Engineering and Government sectors, he's managed and led business development and sales teams for Autodesk and Advanced Solutions. Joining Ideate, Inc. in 2003, he was initially the Manufacturing Solutions Director then worked to expand reach within the AEC community as Director of Business Development. Today, as Sales Director, he leads a dedicated team working to connect architects and designers with best-fit design technology education and implementation solutions.

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Resetting Shared Coordinates

If you have ever been through a Revit Coordinate system exercise, you have probably discovered it can be quite confusing at times. As I have discovered, it takes a lot of practice and patience to understand. Sometimes the Revit Soordinate system seems it is not as cut and dry as the AutoCAD Coordinate system, so during our discovery and playing around, we often find we end up getting a little disoriented or having trouble reverting our models back to the way things were prior to tinkering.

One of the areas that can get you into hot water is Shared Coordinates. Revit has two coordinate systems that we can use as references. The first coordinate system is the Project Internal Coordinate System, which is the equivalent of AutoCAD World Coordinate System (WCS). The other coordinate system is the Shared Coordinate System, which is the equivalent of AutoCAD User Coordinate System (UCS).

One of the advantages of Shared Coordinates is users can easily use an agreed upon coordinate system for linking and sharing models. This method works really well for projects that cannot link models using the Origin to Origin option (usually due to a lack of model coordination at the beginning of a project) or for projects that have multiple buildings on a site (campuses and housing developments).

There may be times in which Shared Coordinates among a team need to be reset. Now you may be asking why would anyone want to reset a Shared Coordinate System? Well, Perhaps...

1. You were using a temporary coordinate system at the time you started your project and now that you have a more definitive coordinate system basis, it is time to reset your Shared Coordinates. 
2. You established a Shared Coordinate System that is no longer valid. For example, you might have Acquired Coordinates from a Civil drawing and there was a mistake in the file and a newly updated Coordinate System has been established. 
3. You acquired Coordinates incorrectly to start with and now you need a way to start fresh again. 
4. Other reasons. As we all know, there are plenty of other reasons why we may need to reset our Shared Coordinates. 

If you are interested in learning how to reset your Shared Coordinates, be sure to visit our YouTube channel to watch Resetting Shared Coordinates, and learn the tips and tricks. 

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Sash Kazeminejad
AEC Senior Application Specialist 
Sash brings proficiency in Autodesk solutions including AutoCAD and Revit Architecture to Ideate customers. His industry experience includes project management, BIM Management, and design for Architectural firms in California, Montana and Oregon. He is LEED accredited professional and is on track to achieve California licensure with Oregon to follow. In his academic life, Sash was awarded a variety of college scholarships, earned a BA in Environmental Design, a MA in Architecture from Montana State University (MSU) and taught Building Information Modeling courses at MSU Gallatin College. As a Revit Architecture Autodesk Certified Instructor, Sash provides Revit Architecture training and support for AEC firms. Find him on twitter. 

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Part 2: The Importance of Auditing Revit Models

In April of 2015, I wrote The Importance of Auditing Revit Models and, more recently, another blog post, Too Many Missing Elements. (Be sure to read these articles if you have not yet done so.) The reason I wrote these posts was we have seen many cases in which our customers were experiencing a rash of file errors, such as corrupt families within a Revit project. At that time, I emphasized the importance of clicking the ‘Audit’ button at the bottom left corner of the Open dialogue box whenever files were being upgraded from one Revit version to the next (either Revit 2015 to Revit 2016 or Revit 2016 First Customer Ship to Revit 2016 R2) and whenever you were experiencing file errors or performance issues. 

Besides clicking the ‘Audit’ button from time to time, I now want to call attention to the fact it is also really important to “Audit” your Revit models, on at least a weekly basis. You want to regularly be looking for warning signs your model is heading for trouble and whether or not you are deviating from office standards. For example, look at the Revit Warnings to see how many you have and which one’s deal with calculation and redundancy issues. These types of warnings usually contribute to file performance issues and potential file opening and upgrading problems as well. In addition, use the powerful tools within Ideate Explorer to have a quick overall look at your model so that you can make informed decisions on how to correct or improve your model’s health and performance.

For more detailed information on Auditing your Revit models watch this video I put together for you, Part 2: The importance of Auditing Revit Models.

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Sash Kazeminejad
AEC Senior Application Specialist 
Sash brings proficiency in Autodesk solutions including AutoCAD and Revit Architecture to Ideate customers. His industry experience includes project management, BIM Management, and design for Architectural firms in California, Montana and Oregon. He is LEED accredited professional and is on track to achieve California licensure with Oregon to follow. In his academic life, Sash was awarded a variety of college scholarships, earned a BA in Environmental Design, a MA in Architecture from Montana State University (MSU) and taught Building Information Modeling courses at MSU Gallatin College. As a Revit Architecture Autodesk Certified Instructor, Sash provides Revit Architecture training and support for AEC firms. Find him on twitter.