BIMThoughts

In this episode, we talk with Richard Schmitt who works with Dana at Smith Group as an Applications Developer. We get our full geek on as we talk Dynamo, Revit Journal Files, JavaScript, IMAGINiT Clarity, model health, PDQ Deploy, FormIt Pro and more. https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/EP-2014.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Episode Hashtag: #OneOverZorro Learn more about three.js at: js.org Examples Learn more about D3.js at: D3js.org Examples Learn more about IMAGINiT Clarity: Here Bill uses it at his firm to help get the model health data Learn more about PDQ Deploy: Here Bill uses it at his firm to help deploy Dynamo graphs Learn what’s new in FormIt 2021. Introducing FormIt 2021 FormIt JavaScript Plugins We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas via the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via an invite from the BIMThoughts website Help Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual get 1,000 subscribers! Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode the #BIMThoughts team gets to learn about Spot and other cool stuff from Brian Ringley the Construction Technology Manager at Boston Dynamics. https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/EP-2013.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Episode Hashtag: #SeeSpotScan Here is where you can find Brian on the World Wide Web: Twitter: @brianringley LinkedIn: Brian Ringley Instagram: brianringley The world famous “Spot” of Boston Dynamic fame Spot is also entertainment famous Early Spot in Silicon Valley Spot on 2019 Episode of Emergence Spot has even worked with Cirque du Soleil Spot has also made friend with Adam Savage Spot is TikTok famous too with the help of the ai-gen-cy (theaigency) https://www.tiktok.com/@theaigency/video/6813538980399779077 Spot is also helping during the Covid-19 pandemic Meet ‘Spot’: The Robot That Could Help Doctors Remotely Treat COVID-19 Patients https://twitter.com/jchatterleyCNN/status/1260634533193494531 Dusty Robotics – layout robot Designalyze Podcast with Zach Downey & Brian Ringley Episode 6 – Dynamo Team – Matt Jezyk, Zach Kron & Colin McCrone Designalyze Tutorial Website Robotic arm video – we didn’t talk about this on the episode but it is really cool! AUTOMATIC – Robots Vs. Music – Nigel Stanford We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas via the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via an invite from the BIMThoughts website Help Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual get 1,000 subscribers! Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, Bill and Carl chat with Matt Mason, Director of Software Development for Rand Worldwide (parent company of IMAGINiT Technologies). We talk about what’s new in IMAGINiT Clarity 2021, The IMAGINiT Clarity Integration with BIM Track, Matt’s 25 years in CAD-based programming, and even get into a Read the Factory Manual rabbit hole talking about the General Lee, Bill restored for Carl. https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/E2012.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Episode Hashtags: #MyTaskServersAreBiggerThanYourTaskServers                                        #HappyTires Here is where you can find Matt on the World Wide Web: Twitter: @mattmas LinkedIn: Matt Mason Check out IMAGINiT Clarity, and what’s new in 2021 Revit / Revit Server 2021 support More integrations Google Drive, Procore Improved BIM 360 integration More Model Health Metrics features Model Scoring, Community sharing of anonymous metrics data Some big-data enhancements for extracting and reporting on data Check out the BIM Track and IMAGINiT Clarity integration BIM Track and IMAGINiT Clarity The Read The Factory Manual YouTube Video of Carl’s General Lee restoration ERTL Dukes of Hazzard General Lee Restoration We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas via the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via an invite from the BIMThoughts website Help Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual get 1,000 subscribers! Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, the BIMThoughts crew have a great chat with Lisa-Marie Mueller a Job Captain and Design Technology Specialist at the Dahlin Group. We talk about C# coding, Dynamo, balancing project work and design technology work (hint it involves working on your own time) and so much more. https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/E2011.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Episode Hashtag: #ImaGenius Here is where you can find Lisa-Marie on the World Wide Web: Blog: lisa-marie mueller Twitter: @lm2_me LinkedIn: Lisa-Marie Mueller GitHub: lm2-me Check out Orkestra by the folks at Data|Shapes for your Dynamo deployments and more. online The Simply Complex Podcast did an episode on Orkestra with Mostafa, listen HERE. There is also a video of Orkestra in action in that episode’s show notes. Resources to help you start coding mentioned in this episode (aside from Google): The Building Coder API Docs Revit API Docs Boost Your BIM Python – Revit – Resources Revit API Development Guide: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas via the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via an invite from the BIMThoughts website Help Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual get 1,000 subscribers! Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, Bill and Carl have a chat with Gavin Crump about his popular YouTube Channel “The Aussie BIM Guru” as well as his new BIM consultancy BIM Guru. https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/E2010.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Episode Hashtag: #AussieBIMGuru Here is where you can find Gavin on the World Wide Web: YouTube: Aussie BIM Guru YouTube: BIM Guru Twitter: @AussieBIMGuru Twitter: @thebimguru LinkedIn: Gavin Grump LinkedIn: BIM Guru GitHub: Gavin Crump (aussieBIMguru) GitHub: Gavin Crump (bimguru-gavin) Instagram: thebimguru Flashback Express – Gavin’s free screen recorder Camtasia and Premiere Pro – Bill’s video editing programs of choice Gavin gives shout-outs to John Pierson, Aaron Maller, and The Building Coder himself Jeremy Tammik Gavin also gives some love to other Sydney based BIM consultants wanting it to be more of a collective BIM consulting market, not a competition based one. Parametric Monkey and Paul Wintour RevitCat and Tim Waldock Gavin also gives a nod to Paul Aubin for his educational style in his videos for LinkedIn Learning. If you like all the great videos Gavin is doing you can also “Buy Him a Coffee” to show your support. Here is a link to the “Read the Factory Manual” video Bill was talking about…he restores Carl’s childhood General Lee dinky car! ERTL Dukes of Hazzard General Lee Restoration We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas via the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via an invite from the BIMThoughts website Help Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual get 1,000 subscribers! Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, we review the latest addition to the Ideate Software family, StyleManager. We also get a little sidetracked with a deep discussion about hard candy, chocolate and how bad Lifesavers butterscotch flavour is. Enjoy the Show! https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/E2009.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Episode Hashtag: #SweetAsCandy Check out Ideate Software on the web Ideate Software Blog Ideate Software on Twitter: @IdeateSoftware Ideate Software on LinkedIn: Ideate Software Ideate Software on YouTube: Ideate Software Ideate StyleManager overview: “Ideate StyleManager addresses the challenges that arise when Revit users load or import content into the model because the corresponding styles automatically come with the content. Proper management of these styles reduces publishing errors and end-user confusion, but the management process in Revit can be time consuming and risky, and errors can dramatically impact the models and production documents.” Free Trial of Ideate StyleManager can be downloaded HERE. Why Ideate StyleManager for Revit? https://youtu.be/KPHtZvu9Xt4 Introduction to Ideate StyleManager for Revit https://youtu.be/LPSyLf1j498 Hitting a High Note – Tuning your Revit Template with Ideate Software and Brian Mackey https://youtu.be/rjWOJ9FADnI Show note: You do have to pick from the list of available options to batch merge, you cannot make up a new one on the fly as mentioned in the episode. We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas via the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via an invite from the BIMThoughts website Help Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual get 1,000 subscribers! Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, we talk to Karen Robichaud, Communications Director at Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, about books, your brand, how to market yourself, social media, and generally the less “Techie” side of BIM and AEC. https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/E2008.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Episode Hashtag #NewBonJovi Check out Karen’s Blog: We Are The Stories We Tell Karen’s blog has her book lists from 2015 to present Karen on Twitter: @karenelainer Karen on LinkedIn: Karen Robichaud Karen on Instagram: @karenelainer Check out Karen’s KA Connect 2019 talk. Orchestrating Cultural Transformation through Communications and Collaboration The Enron book: Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald Bill’s Twitter client: Tweetbot (Mac and iOS only) Check out the Public Library app: Libby We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas via the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via an invite from the BIMThoughts website Help Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual get 1,000 subscribers! Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, we interview Buck Davis of BIMBOX. Buck and Bill get hardcore into the computer hardware! Dana and Buck discuss the state of AR/VR in the AECO industry. Plus, we asked the question, In the BIM world do you want a high-end graphics card, or a high-end and less expensive gaming card? That’s just the first half of the episode, have a listen for so much more! https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/E2007.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Episode Hashtag: #whowantstogofast Check out the BIMBOX Twitter: @BIMboxUSA LinkedIn: BIMBOX Learning about the studio drivers for your Geforce cards. Essentially turns them into Quatro cards This gives you access to 1 Billion shades of colour instead of 30 million shades Which side are you on? Is AR & VR on the way down, on the rise or? #TeamBuck on the way down #TeamDana on the rise What is your favourite AR/VR medium? The Wild Twinmotion Enscape Fuzor Lumion Yulio Others? Do lots of computational design, maybe you need a BIMBOX? Single-core vs Multi-core processing Is the value proposition truly there? Can you, or should you use a portable GPU? The answer might surprise you What about working with a kickass desktop and remote access is that a solution? The answer is we still can’t have our cake and eat it too… Maybe the answer is an office unit just for the purpose a la Dan Stine? We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas via the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via an invite from the BIMThoughts website Help Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual get 1,000 subscribers! Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this special episode, the BIMThoughts crew is joined by Harlan Brumm, Revit Product Manager, Architecture & Construction at Autodesk, and Sasha Crotty, Sr. Product Manager, Revit Platform & Services at Autodesk to talk about what’s new in Revit 2021. Harlan Brumm Sasha Crotty https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/E2006.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Slanted Walls and Realistic Views – Dan Stine in AECbytes Episode Hashtag: #Revit2021 Check out the Autodesk Revit Twitter: @AutodeskRevit Sasha Twitter: @sashacrotty Sasha LinkedIn: Sasha Crotty Harlan Twitter: @HarlanBrumm Harlan LinkedIn: Harlan Brumm Link to the AECbytes Blog by Dan Stine What’s New in Revit 2021 Link to the Revit Blog What’s new in Revit 2021 Can you shade a single cell? We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas via the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via an invite from the BIMThoughts website Help Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual get 1,000 subscribers! Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, the BIMThoughts crew talks about working remotely, the good, the bad, and internet struggles! https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/E2005.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Episode Hashtag: #WFM Some other blog posts with some Working From Home tips. Enscape Blog Post – COVID-19: Working From Home (BIM Chapters) Top 5 Steps to Securely Work from Home by SANS (BIM Chapters) 10 Tips for Working From Home (The BIM Jedi) 10 Best Practices to Support a Remote Workforce – and Ease Stress – During COVID-19  (Redshift) We talk about some VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) environment options FRAME which was used at AU in the labs HVE ConneXions which was used at BILT labs We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas via the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via an invite from the BIMThoughts website Help Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual get 1,000 subscribers! Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, we interview Gabe Paez Founder and CEO of The Wild. https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/E2004.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Episode Hashtag: #XR Check out The Wild Twitter Instagram LinkedIn Facebook YouTube Gabe talks about what he is firming in camp XR One reality to rule them all A virtual conference would be great for the environment The Wild video from AU that Carl aka The BIMsider appears in…watch until the end. twitter.com/TheWildXR/status/1197237162304888832 We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas via the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via an invite from the BIMThoughts website Help Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual get 1,000 subscribers! Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, we get back into doing interviews with awesome guests! This episode we talk with Dan “The Polar Bear” Stine about AR and VR, being an empty nester soon and of course riding his bike to work in the winter in Minnesota! https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/E2003.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Episode Hashtag: #ThePolarBear Check out Dan’s Blog: BIM Chapters Inception! – Dan’s blog about this episode: BIM Thoughts Podcast and Winter Biking Check out Yulio Trimble XR 10 with HoloLens 2 Try AR and VR in Fuzor 1 to 1 AR scale with QR Codes – real and in model versions Voice commands for your AR – So Cool! Use voice to move your model 2.54 cm to the left Use the Dan Stine Avatar out of the box when you buy Fuzor Dan answers the question AR or VR Spoiler they both have their place…listen to find out where those places are VR services can be PAID services that the client requests, it’s not just for marketing anymore Why should you go for the Trimble XR 10 version of HoloLens 2 vs the Standard Microsoft HoloLens 2 version? We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas via the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via invite from the BIMThoughts website Help Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual get 1,000 subscribers! Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, Dana is back to join Bill & Carl and chat about her trip to Spain, Revit 2020.2 & 2020.2.1, Dynamo and more! https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/EP-2002.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Episode Hashtag: #DemoDadJoke Dana did Barcelona Gaudí is awesome La Boqueria Revit 2020.2 Correction: – there was a new “dot” Release of Dynamo that came with Revit 2020.2 Dynamo for Revit 2.3 Revit 2020.2.1 Hot Fix – More info in this BIM Chapters post by Dan Stine PTQ Deploy Gordon Price of Pragmatic Praxis awesome Dynamo uninstall blog post from Down the Uninstalls Rabbit Hole: Installment 3, Dynamo Uninstalls Steve Stafford Blog Posts about Internal Origin Revit 2020.2 – Internal Origin Revit 2020.2 Turn Off Internal Origin – Dynamo Option Revit 2020.2 Internal Origin Redux Internal Origin Follow Up Revit 2020.2 Internal Origin Part Three Parallax Team Free Add-in created by John Pierson InternalOriginHide-ifier We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas via the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via an invite from BIMThoughts website Help Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual get 1,000 subscribers! Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present.

In this episode, Bill & Carl talk about getting the band back together so there will be more episodes of BIMThoughts! They also talk about what’s new with them, including Carl’s new job and Bill’s new YouTube Channel, what coding stuff they have been up to, and why they wanted to give Dan Stine the nickname “Polar Bear”. https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/EP-2001.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Show Notes Episode Hashtag: #BIMThoughts Carl’s new Job: Technical Solutions Lead at BIM Track What is BIM Track Bill’s new YouTube Channel: Read The Factory Manual Read the Factory Manual is about Restoring, Explanations, Exploring the Past and Present. Carl’s Attempt at learning C# Bill’s time spent exploring PHP and Python The PyBadge and PyBadge LC from adafruit What should we call “Carl’s Corner” Give us your ideas via Twitter using the hashtag #BIMThoughts Carl’s Foster puppy “Han Solo” joins in on the fun We want to hear from you the listeners on possible episode topics and guests. Share your ideas vis the #BIMThoughts hashtag on twitter. You can also join the BIMThoughts Slack channel to share your ideas Join via an invite from BIMThoughts website

Dana and I set down with Anthony Hauck of Hypar and Black Arts Consulting. We talk about Generative Design, Irritative Design, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence as it relates to Design and AEC. Where to find Anthony: https://hypar.io https://www.youtube.com/c/anthonyhauck https://www.linkedin.com/in/anthonyhauck/detail/recent-activity/posts/ https://bimthoughts.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Interview-Anthony-Hauck.mp3 | Open Player in New Window