Visual Asset Strategic Tools. Capture Building Information for Building Life Management. Open Source/Low Cost Technology Solutions for you to control your buildings
After trying out the Using Walk-Through-3D Free Revit Add-In by AMC Bridge I was interested in the Unity visualisation. I thought, if its that easy why isn’t it being used all the time, after all, for small scale use Unity is free. So I did a bit of research on the topic. The issue is
Walk-Through-3D . A nice add in I came across that seems to have developed a lot further than when I played with a similar package in 2015. This walkthrough has a nice appearance and has some extra features such as the map, this helps me navigate around the architecture more easily. From the description of
I don’t usually do ceramic tile finishes, but I’ve just had the opportunity of doing some on a recent project. There are floor tiles and wall tiles and feature tiles for an accessible toilet that I will use as an example. This is near the finished set-out for them, a few more dims and schedules
Capturing auditoria, theatres etc for AM/FM and for ongoing use of the model for seating planning can be useful. With numbered seating you can allocate different prices for different seating, you can also change pricing for different event configurations for multi-purpose arrangements.I have done seating on a number of buildings in Wellington when working for
Web Scraper I was looking at Firefox addins and came across a couple of web scraping add ins. Data scrapper and web scraper. The first one I couldn’t get working and the 2nd one I had to watch a video before I could get the settings sorted. Recently, about 4 months ago, I added a
I’ve started work at an Architectural firm and am trying to setup some room, door, window and colour schedules. Currently the office uses excel to do their Room schedules then puts the excel sheet on a title block to issue. The danger with this process is that you update something in Revit and you have
I came across FormIt as a link in Revit 2019 when I started working with Shand Shelton Architects. I thought I’d give it a look. I am using the on-line free version to test out. Go here. It seems to be a SketchUp/ BricsCad Shape type product with Push Pull for Shape forms (so a
I was looking at an article on The 38 best tools for data visualization and I saw 06. Dygraphs and I thought I would take a look at it. On following the link to it, it also had just play with dygraphs on jsFiddle. So I linked through to JSFiddle and decided to look at that
I have been going along to Wellington JS meetups. The last one was Konstantin Raev “Using Open Source responsibly: why Yarn was created“. His talk was focused on React Native and Yarn as a download of packages versus npm. He gave some interesting statistics of how popular npm was compared to other package managers and
I’d come across this website and thought it was quite interesting. You could put polylines, lines and markers on the map and get the output in geoJson format. So this could be read with a bit of coding and displayed on a map on a website. I have just been having a wee tinker around