Gareth Spencer

Assigning Status Codes as Sets in BIM 360

When publishing PDF documents in the Plans area of BIM 360 Docs you can assign Document Sets. When the Document Sets are setup these could be anything you like, such as transmittal between project team or members, discipline specific documents, or even the status codes for information containers identified within ISO 19650-2 National Annex NA …

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Autodesk BIM 360

What is Autodesk’s BIM 360 Docs? Well if you read the Autodesk website it is says Construction document management software. I personally feel it is so much more than that. Let me explain. BIM 360 Docs is an electronic document management system which sits in the cloud for all who use it to access their …

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Autodesk Civils 3D UKIE Country Kits

The typical installation of Autodesk Civil 3D does not include the language content for your specific country. So before you start to use Civils 3D it is recommend you download your country kit. In each country kit it gives you all the pre-configured country specific content for country such as reports, templates and much more. …

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Autodesk Revit Content Library

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When you install Autodesk Revit it will install the content library to suit the region you set during the installation. This should include Family Templates, Libraries and Discipline Templates. Then when you open Revit you can just select the template or families you need. Sometimes these don’t install for some reason or you may need …

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BIM 360 Docs Attributes

As you will see from the below screen shots, you have some default attributes in both plans and projects files area within BIM 360 Docs. You will see there are some differences between the two areas. In the plans area, you have fields like Title and Number which are automatically taken from the PDF drawings …

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Autodesk BIM 360 Docs & Design

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Back in 2019, I undertook a couple of webinars based on the Autodesk platform BIM 360. The first looking at BIM 360 Docs as a CDE aligning to ISO 19650. I took you through BIM 360 Docs, in brief, to understand first what it is, typical workflows, what tools and functionality it has to help …

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Building Information Modelling: What does BIM mean to you?

Some of you may know here at Man and Machine we offer BIM ready training… for those who don’t know, here is some information. BIM and Digital Construction Fundamentals – A one day course aimed at those who wish to learn the basic principles of BIM. For more details please download our course details here. …

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