BIM Coordinator

Autodesk Labs have a new product to assist with coordinating Revit with Civil 3D.  This new add-in tool will allow the coordinates inside of Civil 3D be saved out as an external file, that can be imported into Revit to acquire the Shared Coordinates.  This process appears to work without having to import the actual Civil file.  A quicker, simpler way to make sure you Revit model has the correct coordinates.

The add-in app is written for release 2012, but I copied it to my 2013 version and it appears to work correctly.

Check it out!

Point Cloud Feature Extraction for Revit

Autodesk Labs has a new tool available to assist working with point clouds in Revit.  

Point Cloud Feature Extraction for Autodesk^® Revit^® 2012 software is a free* technology preview that allows you to work with point cloud more easily in Revit. This plug-in automatically extracts useful geometry features from point cloud of buildings and creates basic Revit elements to aid the building modeling in Revit.

WHAT TOOLS DOES POINT CLOUD FEATURE EXTRACTION PLUG-IN FOR REVIT PROVIDE?

Point Cloud Feature Extraction for Autodesk Revit 2012 provides the following tools to facilitate the point cloud editing after it is inserted into Revit:

• Crop / Uncrop: Temporarily hide the points outside a rectangle or polygon
• Hide Point Cloud: Temporarily hide the whole point cloud object to facilitate the inspection of the feature extraction result
• Adjust Axis: Transform the point cloud data so that floor can be aligned with XY plane and major walls are parallel to Z axis

Moreover, this plug-in includes some main features specifically for Revit so that the extracted features / geometry can be smoothly integrated into the BIM workflow:

• Datum Extraction: Extract both level and orthogonal grid
• Site Extraction: Extract both terrain surface for ground surface creation and building footprint on terrain surface for building pad generation
• Wall Extraction: Extract both straight wall layout and arc wall
• Floor Extraction: Extract floor from selected points on the floor plan level