My presentation for the February 2012 NYC Revit Users Group is up! Special thank you to Robert Mencarini and James Vandezande for allowing me to speak that night. Enjoy! credit: NYCRUG http://www.meetup.com/NYC-RUG/boards/view/viewthread?thread=20890942

My recent posts have been more Revit focus, taking a short break from the energy analysis side of things. I posted Part I and Part II on some issues that companies have that relate to graphical standards and content. This types of issues seem to be at the forefront of BIM implementations within MEP firms and unfortunately they cloud the true benefits of a BIM platform which is the management of information, such as in the form of Schedules and calculations. You would be surprised how many MEP firms I talk with still have not implemented standardized schedules. With that being said I wanted to focus on a recent problem I was attempting to solve relating to mechanical elements adapting to the environment they are in. With the benefits of System in the Revit MEP platform you can manage connectivity of elements for the purpose of Scheduling, flow calculations, pressure drop calculations etc. The unfortunate aspect of this is that much of the input is done by hand. Realizing that in most cases the input information is already prevalent in the model I wanted to tackle the simple task of transferring calculated space loads to the space terminal elements (ie. air terminals and terminal boxes) for the following purposes (simplified list of course as the trickle down effects would make for a … Continue reading →