Ideate BIMLink - Automate Pre Design: Programming with Masses

Watch this eight-minute video to learn how to take owner’s program requirements, typically created in Microsoft Excel, and easily create new masses in Autodesk Revit. See how to: 1) Use the owner’s programming data to create mass data in Excel, 2) Use Excel and Ideate BIMLink to create massing forms, and 3) Place hundreds of masses in seconds at any location and array using the coordinate points within Ideate BIMLink.

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