At CTC Software, we have developed add-ins that streamline and simplify the use of Autodesk® Revit®, which has become a staple in sophisticated architectural work.
Our curated BIM Suites, along with the Nexus Suite™–a design and production management system built to supplement Revit–transform the platform for ultimate efficiency, starting with foundational practices for building projects. Learning the proper project set-up practices in Revit is paramount.
BIM: The Tannin That Turns a Revit Project Seed Into Fine Wine
Building Information Modeling (BIM) introduces computer intelligence and cloud technology to the Revit platform, consolidating interdisciplinary data connected to a particular architectural undertaking.
As an illustration, BIM is like an oak cask that ultimately produces a full-bodied wine. The architect’s imagination is the soil from which the grapevine (i.e., blueprint) is born; data points are the harvested grapes, sugar, water, and yeast; and the project manager is the winemaker who controls quality and procedure.
Over time, the ingredients ferment in the cask, and the oak infuses the concoction with oxygen and tannins, which give texture and add notes to the mixture. Once sufficiently mature, the wine is tapped and bottled. A single “final product” emerges, but it actually represents each component and mechanism–from germinated seed to polished carafe.
BIM is both the cask and the finished bottle, holding and influencing a variety of elements while also yielding a unified solution. The result can be tested before the full body of a project has been corked and presented for human consumption.
In essence, BIM allows architects, the managers of their designs, and contractors to see the entire life of the work as one integrated body, the brain of which has recorded each step of development. As that body is created, catching and correcting problems and anticipating the steps needed to take a blueprint from Revit® to the streets of the real world is critical.
Projects cannot be properly initiated without an understanding and implementation of BIM technology, as multi-disciplinary correspondence and action are required to turn a seed of thought into a sought-after vintage.
Add-Ins From CTC Software’s Suites Set Up Revit® Projects for Success
CTC Software has four BIM Suites that provide tools for establishing best practices in preparing a Revit® project.
BIM Batch Suite
BIM Batch Suite™ automates batch operations within Revit to expedite tasks such as plotting, upgrading families and export/load families.
BIM Project Suite
BIM Project Suite™ also applies automation, eliminating repetitive and laborious aspects of project management inside the Revit environment and facilitating every stage of an architectural plan’s lifecycle, from daily banalities to intricate modeling and data forecasting.
BIM Manager Suite
BIM Manager Suite™ encompasses add-ins with the power to improve Revit models while diminishing the chance of human error in managing an architectural venture.
BIM Data Suite
BIM Data Suite™ optimizes users’ mining, extraction, and integration of project-related data to and from Revit.
CTC Nexus Suite
Additionally, we offer the CTC Nexus Suite™ to architecture clients. The Nexus Suite incorporates three constituents to control design and production within Revit:
(Ally (Project Standards), a digital enforcer of rulesets placed on Revit users, projects, or object groups to guarantee compliance with uniform modeling standards
(PAL, the Project Activity Logger) that monitors work performed in Revit, with the ability to compile reports on how an organization and its members are using the platform
(CMS (Content Management System), a content-management system specially crafted to meet the needs of the architecture industry.
CTC Software Revit Add-Ins Can Be Powerful Fixtures in Setting Best Practices for Revit Projects
Setting up a project in Revit involves more than an architect playing around with 3D modeling. A building design may begin as a concept in the architect’s head, but full-scale translation of that concept into reality demands planning, management, and construction.
The convergence of the assorted experts must be fixed from the start, by and through practices specified at the project set-up phase, and reinforced as a building comes into being. This is a cumbersome and expensive expectation without advanced Revit add-ins, such as CTC Software’s BIM and Nexus Suites.
