Beyond Design: the Construction and BIM blog

Hungry, Denver? The BIM 360 Food Truck is coming your way!

Denver, what are you waiting for?  The BIM 360 Food Truck is delivering free food, refreshments and prizes to thousands of hungry construction workers in your city and I bet you have some hard-working mouths to feed.  And with all this heat recently, we bet you’re excited for some iced-cold beverages, too.

Local-fave, Bao Chica Bao Bao will be whipping up tasty, mouth-watering meals from the BIM 360 Food Truck during the week of July 25^th.  Breakfast or lunch, we’re there to feed your entire construction site for free.  And we think Korean-marinated beef burritos and miso-ginger black bean and roasted corn tacos is just the right way to get those taste-buds rocking.

If your construction team, subs and trades like FREE food, you are the luck.  To get on the list today, nominate your project at bim360.com/feedmycrew. The Top 10 sites on the leaderboard will be selected.  But hurry, the leaderboard locks on July 20^th and we come to come see YOU!

Any questions about the BIM 360 Food Truck tour? Visit our BIM 360 blog.

Syncing Field Equipment Properties with Revit

BIM 360 Field is offering a great way to track data on the building suite using your iPad, e.g. the status and install dates of certain equipment. But what if you want to see this data in Revit? 

The answer is pretty simple - the new BIM 360 Plugin for Revit gives you a very easy way to sync the equipment properties in Field with your originally shared Revit model:

 

After opening the Revit Model, go to Add-Ins > BIM 360 Equipment Properties and chose the model you want to sync with. In this window you will see all your models available in BIM 360 Glue and you will need to select the one corresponding with your currently open Revit Model. You can recognize the Models with shared Equipment Sets on the orange icon: 

 

Once the properties have been synced, you will get the following message: 

 

Now that your Field Properties have been added to your Revit Model, you can see them among the object properties: 

 

Of course, you can use the properties in schedules or in filters - in this case, we used the value for Functioning (Funktionsfähig) to create a view showing all lights colored according to whether they are working correctly (=green) or if they are defective (red). 

To learn more about BIM 360 please have a look at the BIM 360 website and visit our online help for BIM 360 Glue and BIM 360 Field.