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Watch the recording of this 30-minute webinar to learn how to leverage coordinate data to bring new levels of control and efficiency to your building information model with Ideate BIMLink. Ideate BIMLink is one of our five Revit applications that simplify data challenges. It allows you to send all the robust data within your Revit model to Microsoft Excel for review and manipulation, and then pull the data back into the Revit model. It also allows you to:

  • Easily access data that is hard to review in a Schedule format
  • Edit Parameter data quickly
  • Rename Families and Types – Important for COBie data
  • Manage non-Schedule data with Beyond Schedule Library Links
  • Create elements, including key schedule data, levels, types per existing family, and views to name just a few. (Please see Project Setup with Ideate BIMLink for an in depth look at laying out a new project)

In this recording, you will see demonstrations of how to use Ideate BIMLink to simplify three construction tasks:

  1. QTO (Quantity Takeoff)
  2. Sending Coordinate Data for Revit Modeling to the Field with Ideate BIMLink
  3. Receiving Field Coordinate Point Data into Revit with Ideate BIMLink

Additional information about these three construction workflows can be found within our online HELP system. You can also review a wonderful summary video of Ideate BIMLink and Coordinate Data for VDC on our website.

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About the Author

Richard W. Taylor, Associate AIA – Technical Evangelist 
Richard has more than 30 years of experience working for companies that develop architectural and engineering software solutions, such as Intergraph, Bentley, and Autodesk. He has over 20 years of Revit experience, and he was part of the original development of Revit while at Revit Technology Corporation. He worked for 12 years at Autodesk, where he presented, taught, and worked to improve features in Revit. Richard holds both a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies and Master of Architecture from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. As Technical Evangelist, Richard works with AECO clients worldwide, developing and consulting on BIM solutions. Find Richard on Twitter and LinkedIn.