Category: Surveying building condition

Click this link to go to developed app. Glide is a bit like Coda, but different. Its intentions is to build an app without needing to code. Allowing you to focus on content rather than process. It has a free tier and you need to sign up/sign in. You need a google account so that

Background I have written a post on showing internal building fabric condition over time in this article Revit Internal Condition over Time.I was not, at the time, happy with the presentation of the information as it was a series of screenshots that I then put in as slides to step through the process. Two things

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

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

Create a tour Use Google Tour Creator to create and publish virtual reality tours. You can use Google Street View panoramas, add your own images from 360 cameras, and annotate the tour with details and facts, to create immersive experiences. Help information here. You need to have a google account to have tours. Refer help

Reports Standard reports The out of the box (OOTB) Asset Report is pretty standard, not too many field, as in, none of the custom fields that you have added come through. You have 2 options, the Asset by ID Tag  or Asset by Tag with Pictures. (screenshots 1 & 2 below). Both show you all

Linking If you look at the video on linking (bottom left video link) you can see how assets can be linked together. I wondered whether this could be a useful tool for linking lots of assets together, say, for a room. You can do this linking process within the browser, selecting one asset at a

After writing the initial post which I wrote whilst setting up and populating the database I had a further play, using the Mobile App, or rather, I didn’t get very far at all. The company who set up the free Asset Management Site make Bar Code tags, so the accessing of data would be by

The AlternativeTo website popped up Asset Tiger as a free asset management tool when I typed in Alternatives to OpenMAINT. It is a cloud based tool and has a mobile app so that you can use it on your smartphone or tablet which is good too, as its free (the OpenMAINT one isn’t). Asset Tiger

Panoramic files (360/180) can be viewed directly with a programme such as Paint, but they do not make much sense. You need a specific Panoramic programme to read the files correctly. I use the FREE photo sphere viewer by Jeremy Heleine. Follow the link to see the demos. The method that the programme uses is