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I know it is too early to know what's happening in the factory but I dare to be bit visionary and dream out loud. My wishlist for the upcoming release of Revit (2015 or whatever serial name it will get). I know it is rather a dream-list however, I want to publish what I expect to see and I think most of the long-term Revit users would agree: # 1. Performance Optimization (mainly in case of large projects) # 2. Very important: ability to assign world coordinates or X Y Z coordinates to almost all categories as parameters that can be modified to relocate an object from one position to another as well as being able to see/modify those coordinates in the element schedules.  E xcitech has got an add-in that accomplishes this in a limited way - it would be nice to see it as a developed feature in Revit. # 3. MEP pipes should be able to measure INVERT LEVELS from the invert levels not from the center lines necessarily, and Spot Elevation tool should be respectively tuned to mea

Hi there, I have been keeping silence for quite some time now. I just don't like talking about what already has been discussed somewhere else. However, I prefer sharing practical solutions for the BIM challenges/possibilities that we hear in theory on our daily BIM meetings. In these series of posts I will explain in detail and step by step how to set up & manage a BIM workflow where you will have your 3D Model/Workshop Drawings linked to your 4D Sequencing & 5D Cost/Quantities. One of these type of issues is the ideal workflow from 3D BIM and workshop drawings to 4D (time & project planning) and as well 5D (model takeoff & cost planning). On one of our recent mega-projects we needed to define proper phasing (Location Breakdown Structure) and be flexible with that in terms of changes to a certain scope or all of the scopes. That is a big challenge if you are limited to a single software environment and you need to make your data affordable to the other parti