New things to come

Taking a position with a new company. It's going to be scary, but I'm going to come out on the other side knowing that I gave this a shot and did everything I could to succeed.

Creating a new database Item properly in the Fabrication products

Creating a new DB item in CADmep / ESTmep
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fabrication-cadmep-forum/creating-new-database-item/td-p/4784559

The Autodesk AEC Collection

A blast from the past commercial from Autodesk on the new AEC Collection!

Occipital acquires Paracosm

Very cool!
https://youtu.be/mogaE8lnUK4

Revit add-on from Vulcraft > NuBIM

For all you Structural Engineer/Designers out there in the BIM / VDC world! Check out their Revit Add-on.

AEC Collection: New and Improved for Fabrication and Virtual Reality!

                                   
If you hadn't read it yet or weren't paying attention, some very awesome news has arrived regarding the Autodesk AEC Collection (and Product Collection for that matter). Read the In the Fold press release here. The Collections now have a few new additions that are game changers in my mind. Yes it's still expensive, but the amount that you get for the investment is honestly staggering. I was not expecting them to do this and I'm impressed that they did. So what do you now get?


Fabrication CADmep
Advance Steel
Robot Structural Analysis
Revit Live (although it may have been in there already)...

Personally I'm excited about the explosion of workflows that will now be available at the exact same price point, specifically with CADmep and Advance Steel. This was a good decision by the mothership.
Press release here.

P&ID in Revit 2018.1 - Nice!

P&ID in Revit!
http://blogs.autodesk.com/revit/2017/08/15/pid-modeler-revit/

Virtual Design and Construction (VDC)

Virtual Design and Construction. Are you implementing this practice in your project delivery?
This is a good, quick, article on the SSOE blog about VDC.
Is VDC right for me?

iConstruct for Navisworks

If you need to take Navisworks to the next level, if you work in Construction Coordination this might be an option to take a look at to enhance your existing workflows.
iConstruct homepage

Do you have iConstruct? What are your thoughts, let us know!

Matterport for Reality Capture

If you're interested in the Reality Capture tools out there and want to integrate the workflows into your practice, you might take a look at the Matterport 3D Camera. It is an amazingly simple tool and process for capture of existing conditions and their online platform with hosting and Mattertags is very powerful. Give it a look and let me know what you think!
3D Scanning for AEC

Revit 2018.1 has been released - Autodesk write up

Revit 2018.1

SiteVisit360: New Point Cloud collaboration tools

This looks like some solutions I've seen around, but as with all other solutions, there's always a few things that differentiate each product. This looks great, I'd love to get in and try it out. What are your thoughts?

SiteVisit360

Spar 3D write up on SiteVisit 360

Autodesk Revit Structural Precast Extension

Autodesk has rolled out a new Precast Extension for Structural models in Revit. Very interesting!
Revit Structural Precast Extension

ReCap - Getting Started and Best Practices Guide

If you're interested in getting into Reality Capture or just want to read up on it, check this Guide out from the folks at Autodesk ReCap. There's a dataset and document to get you all learned up!
ReCap Best Practices Guide

Navisworks 2018 What's new...Coordination Models in Revit

Among other items, it seems that there is a great deal of promise in being able to pull a Navis Coordination model into Revit and be able to design "in context" with the up-to-date model! What are your thoughts, have you tried it out? Is this going to be useful for your workflow?
What's New in Navisworks 2018

Revit 2018 What's New?

What is your impression of the new features in Revit 2018?
I'm really liking what they've done with the Ribbon and Options Bar melding together! 😝
Let us know what you think!
Revit 2018 New Features

BLK 360 & ReCap 360 Pro

This is big time! With this scale of democratization of such powerful technology, Autodesk and Leica have changed the landscape of Reality Capture. Where are you applying Reality Capture currently and / or do you have it in your projections for this year? If so tell us about it. Let us know if you have any questions.
Leica BLK 360 and Autodesk ReCap 360 Pro

Revit 2017 Model Performance Technical Note

Revit Model Performance Technical Note

Revit 2016 upgrading to 2017 Text issue

If you just upgraded your 2016 model to 2017 and had major troubles with your text not working properly. This may be of help to you.
This is how to fix it:
Go here.

This is why...
Go here.