San Francisco, CA, 12-04-17 – Ideate Software, a veteran Autodesk Developer Network member, announced today the publication of its latest “Spotlight on” customer success profile. This profile features WSP and its use of Ideate BIMLink, an Autodesk^® Revit^® application developed by Ideate Software. Ideate BIMLink enables users to move BIM data from a Revit file into Microsoft Excel, so even those not familiar with Revit can easily edit and update the data.

Dan Popp, Senior Associate in the WSP Chicago office said, “By using best-in-class tools such as Ideate BIMLink, our engineers eliminate drudgery and free their time to anticipate trends, propose innovative ideas, look at complex problems from different angles, and find solutions that delight our clients.”

With 36,000 people in 500 offices across 40 countries, WSP offers the personalized services of a specialist firm and the ability to undertake complex projects. Its engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors, and construction management professionals design lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water, and environment sectors. They use Ideate BIMLink to:

1. Help manage the massive amounts of data in their Revit models
2. Tie analysis programs, such as RAM Structural System, with Revit
3. Reduce turnaround time for design changes
4. Provide higher quality drawings
5. Enable employees to move from tedious tasks to interesting and valuable activities

“WSP shows us that the process improvements created by Ideate BIMLink also increase employee morale,” said Bob Palioca, President, Ideate Software. “I am pleased that our software contributes to WSP’s ability to attract and retain the professionals it needs to create innovative solutions that shape our communities and environments.”

Read Ideate Software Presents: Spotlight on WSP for more details.

Ideate BIMLink carries a five-star rating on the Autodesk Exchange Apps Store. For more information, call 888.662.7238, or contact [email protected].

About Ideate Software

Ideate Software allows Revit users to have unprecedented control over their data. Ideate BIMLink, Ideate Explorer for Revit, Ideate Sticky, and IdeateApps were all developed to solve persistent problems in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) workflows. Ideate Software solutions enable Revit users to save time, increase accuracy, improve project deliverables, and elevate design.

Autodesk, the Autodesk logo, ATC, and Revit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries.

Microsoft Excel is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders.

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San Francisco, CA, 12-05-17 – Ideate Software, a veteran Autodesk Developer Network member, announced today that it is looking for a marketing manager to work out of its Portland, Oregon office.

As marketing manager, this person will be largely responsible for overall customer satisfaction with marketing events and services, and will work directly with company leaders to raise awareness of innovative and highly rated products and services.

Responsibilities include:

• Plan and execute events, including in-person and virtual industry events, seminars, client appreciation events, and employee parties. Conduct post-event reporting using ROI analysis
• Develop, design, and deploy marketing collateral, including emails, flyers, website content, and brochures
• Enhance website effectiveness through SEO, PPC, Tag Manager, and Google Analytics
• Grow social media presence through active, relevant, and timely posting to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
• Research industry trends and competitor marketing activities
• Recommend strategies to help the company achieve its goals
• Lead presentations
• Maintain customer database

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or related field
• 7+ years of experience
• Executive presence
• Exemplary organizational, written, and verbal communications skills
• Ability to work and achieve results with minimal supervision
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Demonstrated flexibility and adaptability
• Familiar with SEO, PPC, Tag Manager, and Google Analytics
• Experience with marketing automation software and web content management systems a plus

Interested candidates should send their resumes to [email protected].

About Ideate Software

Ideate Software allows Revit users to have unprecedented control over their data. Ideate BIMLink, Ideate Explorer for Revit, Ideate Sticky, and IdeateApps were all developed to solve persistent problems in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) workflows. Ideate Software solutions enable Revit users to save time, increase accuracy, improve project deliverables, and elevate design.

Autodesk, the Autodesk logo, ATC, and Revit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries.

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Since the launch of Ideate ReNumber for Revit, several customers have come to us with their unique renumbering challenges. One of those has been curtain panels, which present challenges because they need to be numbered in a way that reflects their relative location, and yet they don’t belong to a room or space. This task is one of the many that Ideate ReNumber can handle. Because other people may find the solution valuable, we created this short video called: IdeateApps ReNumber Tool — Advanced Numbering: Curtain Panels. In the example, we walk you through the steps to quickly renumber clear glass curtain panels on three floors while ignoring the spandrel panels. With this information, you will be able to easily customize the process to meet your specific needs.

Ideate ReNumber for Revit plays an important role in model management for our virtual design and construction customers. It provides a way to efficiently document building elements—such as curtain panels—with logical numbering schemas, bringing clarity to construction and fabrication. It is part of our IdeateApps for Revit collection of tools designed to simplify the tasks that daily Revit users perform most often.

For more information on this or any of our Revit add-on applications, visit Ideatesoftware.com or send us an email.

About the Author

Glynnis Patterson, NCARB – Director of Software Development
Glynnis is a registered architect and has worked within the building information modeling (BIM) industry since 1998. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, she has worked as an architect, educator and construction site manager. Glynnis is the Director of Software Development Services and continues to work with AECO clients worldwide, developing, and consulting on solutions to BIM challenges. In her spare time, Glynnis volunteers for the local high school and with growitgreenmorristown.org. Find Glynnis on LinkedIn.

Localization is the industry’s technical term for making software solutions user-friendly to people in other countries. This kind of effort always includes translation but can also include ensuring that any examples used are relevant, particularly as they relate to governmental or industry standards or requirements. During the COVID-19 lockdown, the Ideate Software development team decided that investing in an effort to become more connected with our far-flung customer base would be a great project for us to undertake. 

We can’t travel but we can try to speak each other’s language. Knowing that Google Sheets has a translate function, we thought, “how hard could this be?” 

We began our journey by taking a look at how our software looked in other languages. Did you know that Revit is available in English, French, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, German, Spanish, Russian and Czech? You can easily change the language of your Revit as described in this Autodesk article. Setting the language to Japanese was a real eye-opener for us and made us appreciate the challenge facing our Japanese customers. The image below shows the Revit interface when language is set to Japanese. Guess which tab is the Annotate tab??

Our polyglot Support Manager, Jan Sako, quickly reviewed the Google Czech translations and saw one of the many challenges in front of us…a Sheet can be both a bed sheet or a drawing sheet. This would clearly NOT be a simple task! 

Translation Help from Japan, France, and Mexico

We decided to tackle Japanese as a way of teaching ourselves about the process of localization and were extremely lucky to find two people to help us through this first phase. Yuki Scharf, AEC Technical Specialist with Autodesk in Japan and Yoshimoto Oishi, of Archi-cube in Japan graciously agreed to help us translate both Ideate StyleManager and Ideate Sticky into Japanese. They patiently waded through our English ‘text strings’ and helped us understand when our language usage was unclear. The benefit of this work was not only that we were able to deliver a Japanese version of two of our solutions, but also that we understood better how to make our products more consistent and clear, even within our own native language. It was a humbling experience. 

After completing this process for Japanese, we then also iterated it for both French and Spanish. Many thanks to Julie Bismuth, Director of Consulting and Training with our long-time partner CAD UC who assisted us with the French translation. Special thanks to Alejandro Rodriguez Garza, owner and director of BIM Consulting Services of A4BIM and founding partner of AMIBIM outside of Mexico for his help with the Spanish translation.

This work is clearly just the beginning of our localization journey. We intend to continue to work with our partners and customers around the globe to improve our offerings and make them easier to use, particularly for non-English speakers. Ideate StyleManager 2.0 was released in November 2020 and can be downloaded here. This version contains our work in translating into French, Spanish and Japanese. We welcome all feedback! 

If you are an Ideate Software customer and interested in providing feedback for our future translations into Chinese (CHS) or German, please let us know. If you are an Ideate Sticky customer and your language is Japanese, French, or Spanish, please let us know if you’d like to test-drive Ideate Sticky in your language.

San Francisco, CA, 03/08/2018 – Ideate Software, a veteran Autodesk Developer Network member and provider of Autodesk Revit plugin software for precise building information modeling (BIM) data management and enhanced workflow, announced that Craig H. Dodge, Director of Sales, and Richard Taylor, Technical Evangelist, will attend and exhibit at BiLT Asia 2018 in Singapore. They, along with representatives from Ideate Software’s partner in Singapore, BIMAGE, will demonstrate how Ideate Software tools streamline Revit workflows. The conference will be held at the Marina Bay Sands Hotel and Conference Center on April 5-7, 2018.

“This conference, which is recognized as a global leader in BIM education, provides a perfect opportunity for us to meet with customers and potential customers,” said Mr. Dodge. “In addition to demonstrating our products, we will ask Revit users to explain challenges they face, so we can consider addressing them in future releases of our software.”

Here are highlights of Ideate Software tools that dramatically reduce the time spent on tedious tasks and increase the accuracy of Revit models by eliminating error-prone editing and updating processes:

• Ideate BIMLink – Revit data management via Excel
• Ideate Explorer – Project auditing and exploration
• Ideate Sticky – Excel file linking and management of non-BIM data
• IdeateApps – Productivity tools for every Revit user

Attendees of BiLT Asia can visit the Ideate Software and BIMAGE team at booth number 5.

BiLT, the premier global BIM training conference for those who design, build, operate, and maintain built environments, is also holding 2018 conferences in Australia, the United States, and Europe. Ideate Software will announce its participation, which will include technical presentations, at later dates.

About Ideate Software

Ideate Software allows Revit users to have unprecedented control over their data. Ideate BIMLink, Ideate Explorer, Ideate Sticky, and IdeateApps were all developed to solve persistent problems in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) workflows. Ideate Software solutions enable Revit users to save time, increase accuracy, improve project deliverables, and elevate design.

Autodesk, the Autodesk logo, ATC, and Revit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries.

Microsoft Excel is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other brand names, product names or trademarks belong to their respective holders.

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