Increasing Autodesk Revit Productivity for BIM Projects: A practical guide to using Revit workflows to improve productivity and efficiency in BIM projects

Cover\nTitle Page\nCopyrights and Credits\nDedication\nContributors\nTable of Contents\nPreface\nSection 1: Enhancing Your Productivity in Revit with Data Management and Templates\nChapter 1: Introduction to Productivity in Revit\n	What you should know about Revit productivity\n		Computer maintenance\n		Always use the same Revit update release\n		Revit\'s recommended settings\n		File size\n		Family creation\n		Model groups\n		In-place families\n		Arrays\n		Constraints\n		When using a worksharing environment\n		Splash screen\n	Choosing the right tool\n		What is the best workstation for Revit?\n		Desktop or laptop?\n		A fast processor\n		The best graphics card\n		Computer memory (RAM)\n		A fast hard drive\n	Overview of BIM implementation\n	BIM and the Revit training scheme\n		Assessing staff knowledge\n		Identifying the current training process\n		Determining the training obstacles\n		Defining the training budget\n		Identifying in-house experts\n		Establishing a process to measure progress\n		Identifying resources\n		Training customization\n	Summary\nChapter 2: Project Data Management\n	Critical data to start a BIM project\n		Appointment or Contract\n		Exchange Information Requirements (EIR)\n		BIM Execution Plan (BEP)\n		BIM Execution Plan (BEP) – Pre-contract\n		BIM Execution Plan (BEP) – Post-contract\n		Digital data to start a project\n	BIM documentation overview\n		Client documents\n		Project team documents\n		BIM standards and guidance\n	Project functions\n		Appointing Party (Client)\n		Task Team Manager\n		Task Information Manager\n		Information authors\n		Interface managers\n		Information Management\n		AEC UK BIM Protocol\n		Strategic – BIM Management\n		Management – Coordination\n		Production – Modeling/Authoring\n	Asset Management\n		COBie\n		Interview with George Stevenson, Managing Director at ActivePLAN\n	Establishing an Action Plan to start a BIM project\n		Action Plan to manage project data\n	Summary\nChapter 3: Revit Template and Standards\n	Technical requirements\n	How to create a Revit template\n		Starting a Revit template\n		General settings\n		Views and sheets\n		Graphic standards\n		Annotation standards\n		Model content\n	Summary\nSection 2: Setting Up Revit Projects Efficiently and Exploring Core Functionalities\nChapter 4: Starting a Revit Project Efficiently\n	Technical requirements\n	Overview of Revit coordinate systems\n		Revit internal origin\n		Challenges of coordinate systems\n	Starting a Revit project and setting up the project coordinates\n		Setting up the Revit project and coordinates\n	Summary\nChapter 5: Core Revit Functionalities\n	Understanding schedule management\n		Basic Workflow\n		Advanced Workflow\n	Keynote for the project specification\n		Keynote types\n		Annotating drawings with Keynote\n	Design Options\n	Revit Phasing\n		Phase Filters\n		Phase – Graphic Overrides\n		Displaying multiple phases from Linked files\n	Using Scope Boxes\n		Rotating a Scope Box\n	Worksharing\n		How to create a Revit Central file\n		How to create a Revit Local file\n		Best practices for Worksharing\n	Drawing production\n	Summary\nSection 3: Adding Visualizations and Dashboards to Your Data\nChapter 6: Visual Programming with Dynamo\n	Technical requirements\n	Introducing Dynamo\n		Working with Dynamo\n	Expanding Dynamo\n		Dynamo packages\n		Expanding Dynamo with Python\n		Automating sheet creation\n		How to use Dynamo Player\n	Best practices\n	Summary\nChapter 7: Dashboard Analyses with Power BI\n	Technical requirements\n	Introduction to Power BI for Revit\n		Installing Microsoft Power BI Desktop\n		Starting Microsoft Power BI\n		Working with Microsoft Power BI\n	Exporting and importing data from Revit to Power BI\n		Connecting Revit to Power BI: An introduction to visualizing model data\n	Analyzing Revit data with Power BI\n		Analyzing Revit data with useful workflows in Power BI\n	Summary\nSection 4: Collaborating with Consultants and Plugins and Improving Revit Performance\nChapter 8: Collaborating with Consultants\n	Strategy for collaboration\n		Interview with Ricardo Farinha, Marzia Bolpagni, and May Winfield\n		Technology for collaboration using Revit\n	Copy/Monitor and Coordination Review\n		Coordination Review\n	Shared Views\n	Design coordination and clash management\n		Clash management\n	Summary\nChapter 9: Enhancing Productivity with Plugins\n	Managing Revit plugins\n		Revit Autodesk App Store\n		Let’s learn about security!\n		Removing Revit plugins\n		Creating Revit plugins\n	Revit plugins\n		Productivity plugins\n		Visualization plugins\n	Summary\nChapter 10: Improving Performance\n	Revit modeling best practices\n		CAD import best practices\n		Views and sheet management\n		Modeling\n	Revit content management\n		Third-party families\n		Overmodeling families\n		CAD formats imported into families\n		Avoiding complex shape modeling\n		Defining element visibility settings\n		Flexing families\n	Optimizing Revit\'s performance\n		Keyboard shortcuts\n		Warnings\n		Compacting a Revit file\n		Auditing a Revit file\n		Disabling plugins in Revit\n	BIM 360 best practices\n	Summary\n	Hey!\n	Why subscribe?\nOther Books You May Enjoy\nIndex