Revit Users Group - Missing Elements, Models' Databases, Rendered Web Pano Tours

• What we'll do
Three Presentations:

1. Hide & Seek with Revit Elements

Revit software gives you a dizzying array of sophisticated options to display or hide elements within the Building Information Model that are based on intelligent parameters or properties of the element or view settings. Every element has a category, phase, discipline, or workset that can impact whether that element displays within a selected view. In addition, scope boxes, crop regions, and view ranges may also impact the display of Revit model or annotation elements. View templates and many view settings can also drive element visibility. In fact, there are at least 50 different ways to hide an element in Revit.

Richard W Taylor of Ideate Software will teach a standard Revit visibility checklist to review visibility issues. He'll also speak about forensic tools that will help understand why an element doesn’t display as expected.

2. Join Retriever: Query Towards Constructability

If we treat a building model like a database, will we have a new route to ensuring building constructability and sustainability? Join from San Francisco is exploring a path towards that. Last year, Join released their query tool, Retriever, at SFDUG. This month, they're coming to Boston to share latest updates, and gather feedback from the Boston AEC community. From checking model health or owner requirements, to a faster and more flexible way to extract data from models, Ye Wang, the co-founder at Join, will go through a number of use cases of Join Retriever. She'll also walk through the basics of "BQL", the building query language that made the magic happen.

Ye has developed various computational modeling tools for the mechanical world prior to Join. She was a principal engineer at Onshape, a Boston-local startup that developed the first cloud-based CAD. She worked on Autodesk additive manufacturing platform, which later folded into Forge. Her research back at MIT was focused on new tools for computational fabrication.

3. How to Make Pano Tours from a Revit Model

Eric Boehlke, https://truevis.com , will show how to combine Revit Cloud Rendering and web publishing to tell stories about a building using spherical renderings presented through mobile or desktop browsers. See https://roundme.com/tour/231391/view/680816/ for an example.

• What to bring

• Important to know
Arrive before 6:15pm because someone needs to check you in at the ground floor foyer. Presentations shall commence at 6:30pm. No victuals are planned to be served. Attendees may stay at the venue until 9pm.