Archives for June 2010

Started training the LA branch last week. We’ve recorded over 20 videos covering all the basic subjects and are using these for our training. This way people can go back and review things that weren’t clear or they can’t remember. I’ll try to post these in the near future.

The latest version of V6 has a much better implementation of their detail module. They are now using the open design alliance dll’s and the imports and exports are excellent! You have the choice of storing the details in the database or as a file on the server. We reviewed this yesterday in our weekly V6 meeting and it was very impressive. I still think we will use a hybrid method for our company. Export the generic details from V6, then roll through them programatically, see what assemblies were used to create the detail, search a database to see which of our standard details represents those assembly combinations then replace the generic detail with ours. I think this will result in less clean up for the draftsman.

Had an issue with the VRML to IFC converter. The VRML output is in inches and we were converting to IFC in inches also. This worked fine when you import it into Revit, but was not scaling correctly when you import into Navis. We changed the units to Metric and both imports work fine. Not sure why, but it works.