BIM Standard Released

buildingSMART alliance has released the latest edition of their BIM standard. NBIMS-US

http://blog.lidarnews.com/bim-standard-released/

Autodesk and Leica transforming Construction Industry...are you ready?

Autodesk and Leica partnership is going to accelerate the world of Reality Capture as well as streamline workflows throughout BIM. Good news for Autodesk users incorporating Reality Capture and BIM. Are you utilizing Laser Scanning in your current workflows? If not, what is the barrier to getting into this technology? Are you getting the most out of your BIM projects, or could you be doing more with the information you're already putting in?
http://inthefold.autodesk.com/in_the_fold/2015/06/autodesk-and-leica-transforming-the-building-construction-industry-together.html?linkId=14865801

Autodesk BIM 360 Layout App (BIM 360 Glue)
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/bim-360-glue/getting-started/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/ENU/BIM-360/files/GUID-C5C405EF-2A5B-4CD4-8D83-E6E1D529B3DC-htm.html

Let us know your thoughts on this and other tech...and Revit 2016? Especially the Fabrication Parts. Pleased with this, unhappy about it...meh...what do you think?

Leica BIM Field Trip

Leica and Autodesk have partnered up and I'm sure there will be good things coming out of this partnership.

Here is a video from Leica and the integration of Laser Scanning into BIM and the "Field Trip" workflow of Reality Computing in the process.

https://youtu.be/U0UAx5RYrgM

Revit 2016 New Features

Youtube Playlist with all the new Revit 2016 features explained:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLY-ggSrSwbZq-U8uu0uCIdzf0omMgtzc_

Autodesk Knowledge Network:
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Revit-WhatsNew/files/GUID-8349E649-F5AF-4FB5-9ED6-82BD5815F9C3-htm.html

Autodesk Revit Extension for Autodesk Fabrication

https://apps.exchange.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=appstore.exchange.autodesk.com%3arevitextensionforfabrication_windows64%3aen

Aaron Morris discussing Autodesk ReCap

Good video of Aaron Morris, Autodesk ReCap product manager, discussing some of the new features in ReCap and the applications and workflows for Reality Computing.

https://geospatialstream.com/autodesks-aaron-morris-discusses-reality-computing/

Autodesk Revit 2016

What does the 2016 release have in store for the MEP folks?
Place Fabrication Parts
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/beta/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Revit-Model/files/GUID-436D69AD-D2A5-46DA-BB16-0450F29091B4-htm.html

Specify Fabrication Settings
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/beta/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Revit-Model/files/GUID-692C4E68-6A9D-4628-8E73-0C327E5677D4-htm.html

Fabrication Part Placement
http://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/beta/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Revit-Model/files/GUID-F2661C82-41F4-40DD-8B8F-9D352DF28CCE-htm.html

And so on...look through these locations to see some additional details on what is coming up for Revit MEP 2016.