Category: Drawings

Modern Asset & Facilities Management use information about their assets to plan and maintain them in a Fit for Purpose state so that they can fulfill their space function to maximise their asset value. To do this you require information about the buildings so that you can use predictive tools to: Effectively budget to maintain

RTV Reporter Pro Setup has interface in Revit & Database behind. Database to be called RTV_ReporterPro_SPM to have connection. If it does not exist it is supposed to Create it (when you start RTV Reporter Pro in Revit for first time), but it errored out when I re-named the original one and tried that. Inside

Note, these are my personal views and I am getting no remuneration from any of the products organizations below. There usually pops up a post/article about a list of add-ins  for Revit that you find to help you in your workflow. Most of the ones are directed at day to day design workflow. ArchSmarter via

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

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 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

After my posts on BricsCAD SHAPE & DraftSight renewed my interest in CAD drawings I started to look at another couple of things about CAD drawings. I looked at extracting data from a PDF file, similar to what I am doing with 3D PDF’s with BIM model. From preliminary reading, extracting Attributes out of Cad