Green Building Studio and Revit

Brad Hartnagle has posted a 'how to' on his Blog Green Revit for exporting Revit information to Green Building Studio. Green Building Studio will give you some great preliminary energy analysis numbers, all for registering on their website.

This just happens to be the same process you would use to export heating and cooling information to Trace 700. Exporting to Trace will of course give you much more valuable information.

Michael Dakan wrote a great gbxml article in Cadalyst if you would like more information on just what the heck is gbxml and what can you expect to get out of using it with ABS and Revit Systems.

Avatech's Free Google(TM) Earth-based Plug-in Combines BIM and GIS

Matt Mason of Avatech Solutions has just created a plug-in for Google Earth to import Revit models. Check out the details in this press release, or just download it free from here.

InterSpec Announced e-SPECS Support for Autodesk's Revit Systems

One of the big draws of transitioning to a BIM oriented software like Revit Systems is benefiting from shared information. I can’t think of a more direct hit than being able to extract my specifications from my drawing model. That is exactly what InterSpec has developed in their e-SPECS software. Check out InterSpec’s web site for more information or this article in Cadalyst.

Layer Key Migration Utility

Richard Binning has developed a routine to help combine layer keys. If you have ever tried to bring together the standard Architectural keys with your Engineering keys, you were looking at a ton of manual labor without Richard's utility. He has recently updated it to include ADT and ABS for 2007 products. Download his routine here .

Creating Drop Down Lists in Property Sets

Brian Tuffin has just posted a great article on creating drop down lists in property sets for ADT and ABS. Read on even if your are sure what I'm talking about because this one will save you time and money.

http://bim-wit.blogspot.com/2006/06/psds-property-set-definitions-better.html

Green Building Studio Releases Version 2.0

Here is a link to their press release. It's only getting better and they say it way better than I would.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060607/phw019.html?.v=61

If you are serious about going green, Check out Brad Hartnagle's awesome Blog "Green Revit"
http://www.greenrevit.blogspot.com/