December

22

2015

 

Ideate Query, Search by Parameter, Ideate Explorer, Revit, scope box, Select by Parameter

Take five minutes today and learn how to find anything in your Revit model with Ideate Query.  

Projects are often cluttered with schedules whose sole purpose is to find elements. Use Ideate Query to find what you need without creating a schedule. Additionally, Ideate Query lets you find important properties that are not available through the Schedule tool within Revit. This means that you’ll have superior searching and editing capabilities within the building information model.  

With Ideate Query you can select all elements that are assigned to a certain size, Mark, or any custom parameter. You can also use Ideate Query to find Sheets based upon their Revision/Issuance numbers, or even review all the elements that are modeled as in-place families.

Revit, Scope Box, Ideate Explorer, Ideate Query
Ideate Query can dig into Grids to find those assigned not assigned to a Scope Box.

If you’re wondering where to find Ideate Query, look no further than the latest update to Ideate Explorer. Ideate Explorer has always been a great way to find elements in your Revit project and now with Ideate Query you can dig deeper to find, select and edit elements based on their custom parameter values.

Revit, Ideate Explorer, Ideate Query, search by parameter
Ideate Query is part of Ideate Explorer for Revit.

You can learn more about how to use Ideate Query in our Help Files. In addition to our general purpose examples, you’ll also find discipline-specific workflows for architecture, MEP engineering, and structural engineering.

Existing Ideate Explorer customers can access Ideate Query in the latest version of Ideate Explorer. From the Help menu, select the “Check for Updates” option, or download the Trial.


About the Author

Glynnis Patterson, Revit expertGlynnis Patterson, NCARB — Director of Software Development
Glynnis is a Registered Architect and has worked within the BIM industry since 1998. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, she has worked as an architect, educator and construction site manager. Glynnis is currently the Director of Software Development Services at Ideate, Inc. and continues to work with AEC clients worldwide, developing, and consulting on solutions to Building Information Modeling challenges. In her spare time Glynnis does volunteer work for ECLC of NJ and Grow it Green Morristown. Follow Glynnis on Twitter.

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December

15

2015

Join the Ideate Software tech experts for eLearning. Make the most of your Revit workflow with free, live, online classes that provide your entire organization with easy access to premium education.

December 22 // Ideate BIMLink
Ideate BIMLink for Revit MEP Projects

Explore several ways in which Ideate BIMLink can effect changes to a Revit MEP model including: crucial for settings that affect Energy Performance and how Ideate BIMLink can globally assist with Electrical Device changes and Lighting Level Analysis. We will also look at the various pre–built Ideate BIMLink Revit MEP Sample links and how they can make you more productive. 

January 13 // Ideate Explorer
Auditing Your Revit Project with Ideate Explorer

You’ve used Ideate Explorer to find the hidden DWGs in your Revit project, but did you know that you can find and cleanup many other culprits that may be lurking? This class will take students through nine additional auditing processes to help keep Revit projects running smoothly. We recommend auditing your Revit project weekly with these methods

Each class is designed to give you specific, improved results in a particular topic. You can interact with the instructor right from your own office, while eliminating travel time. Because the class schedule rotates, you can easily select your topics of interest and choose the day which best meets your schedule.

Click here for class descriptions, times and registration link.

Questions? Contact [email protected]

Get It. Know It. Use It.

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December

11

2015

Ideate BIMLink lets you pull data from an Autodesk Revit file into user–friendly Microsoft Excel and push Excel data into Revit with equal ease. Improved speed and accuracy of data flow, and enhanced workflow add up to make projects more predictably profitable. But, what does Ideate BIMLink do for your particular workflow? We’re glad you asked...

Revit Structure + Ideate BIMLink 

  1. Quality Control for Engineers – standardize measurements, naming conventions and parameter values in the data via Excel. 
  2. Quickly manage Structural Type Swapping. For instance, you can easily replace generic column elements with the actual structural column specification.
  3. Manage assembly code data to connect the Revit model to specification data.
  4. Push calculated data such as beam cut lengths into your tags with ease. 
  5. Manage design changes with easy and fast renumbering of details, floors, and view information.

Find out more...

→ VIDEOS: See Ideate BIMLink in action and examples of the above workflows.

→ BLOG POSTS: See the latest Ideate BIMLink workflows, classes and updates.

Are you using one Ideate Software solution and not our others? Try a new approach to your workflow - download a no-cost trial version today.

For additional questions about Ideate Software, including bundles and upgrade pricing contact: [email protected]

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December

11

2015

Ideate BIMLink lets you pull data from an Autodesk Revit file into user–friendly Microsoft Excel and push Excel data into Revit with equal ease. Improved speed and accuracy of data flow, and enhanced workflow add up to make projects more predictably profitable. But, what does Ideate BIMLink do for your particular workflow? We’re glad you asked...

Revit MEP + Ideate BIMLink 

  1. Quickly manage the Space Type assignment for use with energy analysis.
  2. Easily rename system families to firm standards or swap Types to the desired components. 
  3. Manage the specified and actual airflow within a space, using Excel and non–Revit staff. 
  4. Review and change the elevation values of elements such as electrical fixtures, fire alarm devices, communication and data devices, etc. with one simple step. 
  5. Push calculated data such as duct and pipe lengths into your tags with ease.

Find out more...

→ VIDEOS: See Ideate BIMLink in action and examples of the above workflows.

→ BLOG POSTS: See the latest Ideate BIMLink workflows, classes and updates.

Are you using one Ideate Software solution and not our others? Try a new approach to your workflow - download a no-cost trial version today.

For additional questions about Ideate Software, including bundles and upgrade pricing contact: [email protected]

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December

10

2015

Ideate BIMLink lets you pull data from an Autodesk Revit file into user–friendly Microsoft Excel and push Excel data into Revit with equal ease. Improved speed and accuracy of data flow, and enhanced workflow add up to make projects more predictably profitable. But, what does Ideate BIMLink do for your particular workflow? We’re glad you asked...

Revit Architecture + Ideate BIMLink 

  1. Painlessly manage sheet–based revisions. Ideate BIMLink provides access to the Revisions on Sheet properties.
  2. Push calculated data such as occupancy loads into your tags with ease.
  3. Quickly update out–of–date finishes, equipment and materials for a large number of elements. For example, updating all doors in a project turns into a fifteen minute task instead of hours or days.
  4. Automate pre–design by programming with masses. You can create new massing elements with BIMLink.
  5. Extend the project team beyond Revit. For example, export your Door Parameters from the Revit schedule so that a non–Revit user can fill out the data, such as hardware information, using Excel.

Find out more...

→ VIDEOS: See Ideate BIMLink in action and examples of the above workflows.

→ BLOG POSTS: See the latest Ideate BIMLink workflows, classes and updates.

Are you using one Ideate Software solution and not our others? Try a new approach to your workflow - download a no-cost trial version today.

For additional questions about Ideate Software, including bundles and upgrade pricing contact: [email protected]

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