Added Features and Performance Improvements in Ideate BIMLink for Revit 2015 & 2014

Ideate, Inc. is pleased to announce the availability of Ideate BIMLink 2015.1 and Ideate BIMLink 2014.4. These Ideate Software solutions bring an array of enhanced features (video) customers have requested and are designed to work with Autodesk Revit 2015 and 2014 respectively. 

• Get going with Ideate BIMLink 2015 today. Download the 30-day trial. 

RECENT ENHANCEMENTS: 
Customers have asked and we have listened. This version contains often-requested enhancements: 

• Get only the data you need with extensive filtering 
• Make light work of comprehensive take-offs with support for linked Revit files
• Enhance QC with newly editable properties. Just a sampling: Workset, Scope Box, and Phase 
• Go BIM»field or field»BIM with XYZ editing and publishing 
• Create NEW Areas and Masses to facilitate space and code calculation tasks
• Make collaboration easier by creating Schedule Keys for Door Hardware, Rooms Style, and other Key Schedule work. 

Ready to adopt BIMLink? Check out the newly updated prices and bundles. 

For additional questions email: sales@ideatesoftware.com.

This post was originally published on the Ideate Software Blog.

Free the Walls – Publishing Unconnected Wall Height Data with Ideate BIMLink

It’s hard to do a detailed analysis or cost estimate if you don’t know the height of the walls in your Autodesk Revit project. Ideate BIMLink exposes this information as well as other hard to access wall data such as phase, design option, orientation, and location data (XYZ). Many of our VDC customers take this data and move it forward, but of course it can also be pushed back into Revit for use in tags or schedules, if needed. This video shows the simple process of extracting all of the wall height data and then pushing it back into a project parameter so that it can be displayed in a schedule.



While the technique shown here relates to the unconnected wall height values, this same procedure is being used by many Ideate BIMLink customers to push other kinds of data into schedules or tags. Managing occupancy data is another very similar workflow that can also be used to save time and improve accuracy.

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Glynnis Patterson is a registered architect and the Director of Software Development at Ideate, Inc. In a previous life Glynnis spent many hours looking at blueprints with a scale, highlighters, and a scratch pad to develop detailed cost estimates.

Transcending the BIM Hype: How to Make Sense and Dollars from Building Information Modeling

Eric Lamb, Dean Reed and Atul Khanzode
DPR Construction, Inc.

These days it's virtually impossible to make it through an architecture, engineering or construction event without hearing about Building Information Modeling (BIM). Most people tout substantial cost benefits from adopting BIM. Some are even sounding the warning that those who fail to jump aboard the BIM bandwagon will be quickly left in the dust.
BIM, which is often used interchangeably with Virtual Design and Construction (VDC), is the process of creating and managing a dynamic, three-dimensional, computer-generated model for the design, construction and operation of a building or project. The virtual model details the physical and functional characteristics of the building, such as the structure's geometry, spatial relationships, geographic information, and the quantities and properties of components. All of those characteristics can be analyzed, manipulated and corrected digitally before being used to facilitate the construction, fabrication, procurement and other activities necessary to convert the virtual model into the real thing.



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