The Revit API includes Methods to retrieve Bounding Boxes of Model Elements. There is a catch however… The Bounding Boxes returned are always aligned to the default axes of the model coordinate system. This is “close enough” if the software you are engineering only needs to get within the ballpark. An “Auto Connect” software tool […]
Traversing a MEP System is a difficult endeavor to say the least. This is why many of the Hanger and Spooling automation software tools we see today are unusable. We must know the structure of a Tree before we can automate things on it’s Branches. Given a Leaf at random, how do we find the […]
Thanks for trying out the VDC REVIT BETA for Revit 2019/2020! Questions, comments, suggestions and bug reports are tremendously appreciated! Please direct any or all of the above to SUPPORT@MICLOGIC.COM. VDC REVIT 2018 DOWNLOAD VDC REVIT 2019 DOWNLOAD VDC REVIT 2020 DOWNLOAD
A Rose by any other Number would smell as sweet… Sorry Shakespeare, this is a Software Blog. Whether we are talking about Ductwork, Piping, or Walls, Doors and Windows, the “Item Number” is arguably one of the most important bits of information we can find in a Model. It’s how we identify, quantify, locate and […]
Fabrication Items in Revit work a bit differently than they do in CADmep. Likewise, so do the VDC Item Properties Palettes. Below is list of the initial Item Properties that will be available in the VDC REVIT Beta. ITEMSDisplays the quantity of selected Items along with their Name and CID respectively. The drop down list […]
Much of our Fabrication Data in Revit is inaccessible and in many cases, it doesn’t exist at all. VDC REVIT aims to change all of that, exposing your vital Fabrication Data to Tags, Schedules, Filters, Calculations… Virtually any Data you would otherwise expect from native Family Elements. Here are some examples of “Auto Parameters” that […]
Thanks for trying out the VDC CAD BETA for CADmep 2019/2020! Questions, comments, suggestions and bug reports are tremendously appreciated! Please direct any or all of the above to SUPPORT@MICLOGIC.COM. VDC CAD 2019 DOWNLOAD VDC CAD 2020 DOWNLOAD
These short clips are from an earlier build, but they demonstrate how useful it can be when all of your model data is exposed and easily editable, in real time. The “I” in BIM is the most important part. That’s why Pallet is on the Palette, and everything else I could think of. It’s getting […]
Fabrication Parts in Revit are great, but they need some help. One of the things they don’t do yet is break automatically as you lay them out. There is a built in tool to break them after the fact, but often it creates a domino effect because we didn’t coordinate with the connectors to begin […]
And no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If we’re talking about software development, the answer is only if we want it to. I’ve been hard at work slingin’ code for the “Item Properties Palette” that will be a core feature of “VDC CAD” and “VDC REVIT”, my work-in-progress Fabrication […]
