Ideate BIMLink - Revision Clouds and Dependent Views

Before sending off drawing packages and/or issuance records, many of our customers use Ideate BIMLink to report on Revit’s revision clouds to ensure that all placed clouds are on views that have been placed on a sheet. This is a fantastic use of Ideate BIMLink, highlighting one of many creative uses of data that are otherwise not possible within native Revit. In this 4-minute video we take a look at a unique challenge to reporting on revision clouds when the Revit project uses dependent views.

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