Author: Max Drake

Video (17.21Min) This is my quick overview of OpenMAINT. It is an open source solution for the Property & Facility Management; an application for the management of buildings, installations, movable assets and related maintenance activities. It is build on the IT (Information Technology (Computer Management)) programme CMD Build and modified to use for Property Management.

This video is an overview of how to set up WordPress. It follows on from How to Setup a totally free self hosted website Video (34.24Min) The first post told you how to set up the site. This one tells you how to use the WordPress programme to adapt it to what YOU want to do

Update October 2019. Mario Guttman has very generously made Revit Whitefeet Plugin –All versions free. Go here to see about it. Well worth having an explore with these tools as they are practical and useful. Thank you Mario. Video (13. 28Min) Room Data Sheets are useful, they describe the room in a multitude of detail

“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet” Juliet in William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet What to call a domain name for your site? I’d suggest you do a bit of research on that. At the bottom of the page is my experiences with site naming, definitely not the most successful. All

This post follows on from Totally FREE Property Management Information Site (apart from your time) Part 1 Video (6.16Min) The main property plugin is this one: WP-Property-Property and Real Estate Management Plugin for WordPress. Create a directory of real estate / rental properties and integrate them into you WordPress CMS. There is a video on

I have a Property Information Demonstration Site that can hold information on properties in a portfolio. Video ( 9.30Min) Being currently unemployed I have time to explore the AM/FM visualisation area that I am interested in. Tools that I use need to be either free or common. On WordPress sites I am always looking for

I have a website with demonstrations that does not seem to get too many visitors. I am not sure why as the blogs about the subjects have a good response. So I decided to do a couple of videos and post them to YouTube. I have completed and posted a number of videos in the

I saw this post on the web. Its a bit suspicious because it talks about Free flipbooks and then promptly recommends one that is so limited in its free version that he needed to be paid to promote it, but has not declared that fact. A good article otherwise. Flipbooks can be used like on-line

Following on from  CAD Data to Excel for Asset Management where I created a BLOCK with ATTRIBUTES and exported that information from a CAD file to a TXT file which was then viewed in Excel. I altered the CASE on a couple of items and deleted one cell so its blank. I then looked at

In the previous post  How to show CAD drawings on a Web Page I talked about posting CAD drawings to a web page for access to the information. In this post I want to talk about having Data in the CAD file that you can extract to Excel. In DraftSight you can create attribute blocks