Building Engineers

TRAINING - ARTICLE | Controlling the output of files is performed with the set-up wizard in Ideate Automation. We improved the Revit DWG export settings, and you can control the naming of the DWGs better and add custom parameters where needed.

TRAINING - ARTICLE + VIDEO | Ready for a deep dive into how to use Ideate Annotate to support Revit design documentation and quality control activities??

TRAINING - ARTICLE | This feature becomes very useful when trying to process multiple Revit files across multiple projects, enabling project-specific export folder locations.

TRAINING - ARTICLE - VIDEO | With our latest enhancements, users can batch add tags to Revit projects, decreasing the time it takes to manage tags and improving their accuracy.

TRAINING - ARTICLE + VIDEO | If you spend a lot of time waiting for Revit to export data into IFC files, you’ll want to watch the recording of this webinar.

SUPPORT - ARTICLE | When a link definition has been created in another project and saved to disk as a .link file, it can be then loaded back into a new project.

SUPPORT - ARTICLE | Type swapping can be used to edit the kind of title block assigned to each sheet in the Revit project. This is easily accomplished with Ideate BIMLink.

SUPPORT - ARTICLE | In the Quality Control folder you'll find a variety of tasks, such as checking the fire rating of the wall against the fire rating of the door, or in checking the elevation height of all devices.

SUPPORT - ARTICLE | The Revit interface has limitations in terms of editing large amount of data. Ideate BIMLink allows you to edit model data by exporting it to Excel and pushing it back into Revit.

SUPPORT - ARTICLE | Link names are limited to 25 characters or less due to Excel worksheet name requirements.

SUPPORT - ARTICLE | The size of a Sticky in Revit is determined by the named regions defined within the associated Excel worksheet. Ideate Sticky will default to use the defined Print Area, if available.