Category: Productivity

It’s not often one comes across a tool that looks really really interesting where you think you can get some great leverage, but from what I have seen so far Coda.io looks really useful. I’m even starting this post off with a Part 1 as I expect to be doing quite a lot of exploration

I can’t actually recollect who had told me that you could go backwards in Revit versions by exporting to IFC and then opening a new project and bringing in the IFC into a previous version. I know Matt Cantwell was doing quite a lot of work with bringing information in from IFC’s but not the

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

Some programmes and processes that I use to help me work a bit more productively on laptop/desktop. Note Microsoft office & Snagit are not free but gets a mention as I use them frequently. Windows 10 mouse pointer colour Of late I’ve been having issues with my mouse pointer, it disappearing off the screen, or

There’s a Plugin for that! My blog and some of my other web sites focus on visualising Asset & Facilities Management issues , so uses BIM, CAD, PDF’s, maps, databases, photographs, tables, graphs and other data associated with properties. I want to highlight Free WordPress Plugins that have worked for me on my Blog, Demo

The demonstration site, which uses examples of different free plugins to demonstrate different features, can be found at apriori.ml. Looking at the WordPress themes (free ones of course) I saw there were quite a lot of real Estate Themes and Plugins and I wondered if you could adapt one of these to be a property

I see panoramic 360/180 pictures as an extremely useful tool for Facility Management. As an Architect who goes to site to capture information on existing buildings and sites, the frustration of having a photo cut off just where you wanted to see something just outside the normal picture frame, usually requiring a 2nd visit to

Capturing information on existing assets is a challenge Wellington City Council (WCC) has over 2200 social housing units and so getting good information on them in a consistent manner was a challenge. They undertook a condition survey with surveyors on the properties. It took the surveyors on average 4 hours to survey each unit. There

Revit to 3D PDF’s & Export to Excel For designers and contractors, working on the same documentation process, having expensive or specialized software for communication is part of the process. But in the FM/AM world, a lot of people who will be using the information will not want to download specialist viewers to review information.