Archibus Smart Client Extension for Revit

BIM Modeler Tasks: Overview

The Archibus Extension for Revit provides its features on a single Ribbon tab directly in Revit. Archibus keeps your Revit model and facility management enterprise data synchronized as you drag and drop elements or use the standard Revit Property dialog.

The following are the most common tasks that BIM modelers need to develop their Revit model data and integrate it with the enterprise data used for facility management.

• Preparing Room Inventories
  • Overview
  • Using Existing Revit Room Elements for a Room Inventory
• Using your Enterprise Graphics from Revit on the Web
• Completing Room Data Using the Smart Client Grid
• Creating Internal Gross Areas - Process Overview
• Creating a Space Chargeback Based on Revit Areas
• Increasing the Accuracy of Your Room Inventories
• Drawing Room Areas Accurately
• Modeling Workstations and “Rooms within Rooms”
• Using Area Elements to Model Rooms
• Processes for Chargeback and Area Definition The skills and methods you use for area definition are based on the level of accuracy your figures require:
• Preparing Revit Model Data for Chargeback to External Entities
• Preparing Revit Model Data for Chargeback to Internal Entities
• Preparing Suite Inventories
• Using Area Elements to Model Suites
• Preparing Suite Area Plans and a Suite Inventory
• Creating Chargeback Based on Revit Suite Areas
• Preparing Asset Inventories
  • Using Equipment Elements for Equipment Inventory - Catalog your equipment element for asset management, preventive and reactive maintenance.
• Linking architectural models into the MEP model.
  • The Extension for Revit supports Revit Architecture models linked into MEP models. Within this scenario, the Archibus Extension for Revit can reference Archibus rooms within the architectural model. See Linking Architectural Models into MEP Models.
• Other Skills

  Daily, a BIM modeler might use this data-visualization technique:

• Creating Thematic Highlights in Revit

Occasionally, a modeler might need to use these data integrity techniques:

• Disabling and Enabling Archibus Dynamic Updates
  Disable dynamic updating to make bulk updates faster; when you resume the enabling of dynamic updates, catalog assets to reconnect the elements with the Archibus database records.
• Renaming your Revit Model
  If you ever rename your Revit model, you need to update the Archibus Drawings table entries for the Revit levels to reflect the new model name, and recatalog the entities in your model.
• Adding Additional BIM Parameter Data into Archibus
  Map a Revit parameter in a Revit BIM model and catalog the assets to see this data in Archibus.
• Getting Additional BIM Parameter Data into Archibus Validated Fields
  Correct your Revit parameter data by cataloging Revit Parameter Data to Archibus, so that the parameters have a valid value. You can read it into the corresponding Archibus field in one step.

Videos

• Register buildings, floors, and rooms (9:30)
• Register the internal gross area (2:50)
• Prepare the Revit model (5:15).
• Draw rooms within rooms (9:43)
• Create a Revit model from a scanned drawing (17:00)