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Last year, I had the pleasure of working with Jason Spleha of Greenheck Fan and working with them to get some of their equipment created in Revit. They've done a wonderful job in creating the content. Jason came with knowledge of using Inventor software, so creating parametric families was nothing new for him.Greenheck is pleased to offer downloadable CAD drawings and Revit families for BIM (Building Information Modeling). The AutoCAD drawings are in a .dwg format and are accessible in AutoCad 2002 or newer. The Revit families are in a .rfa format and include a .txt file. They are accessible from Revit 2009 Architect, Structure or MEP programs.Drawings will be added as available, so keep checking back for the latest CAD and Revit drawings.http://www.greenheck.com/drawings/Scaled Drawings•Roof Mounted Fans•Gravity Ventilators•Inline and Ceiling Fans•Sidewall Fans•Utility, Centrifugal and Radial Blowers•Energy Recovery Ventilators•Laboratory Exhaust•Fan Coils•Louvers•Make-Up AirInstallation Drawings•Kitchen HoodsJason SplehaSystem Specialist (BIM)Building Information ModelingGreenheck Fan CorporationPhone: 715.355.3962bim@greenheck.com

http://www.andekan.com/files/US_Plumbing_Starter_Pack.pdf Fully ParametricTheir US Plumbing Starter Pack contains 67 state-of-the-art, fully parametric, imperial Revit families. Speed up your work and improve the quality of your projects with these geometrically precise and light-weight models. Manufacturer–SpecificAccess over 700 of the most popular piping and fixture products from Tyler, Zurn, American Standard, Nibco, and Smith.Optimized for Revit Tested by senior plumbing engineers, these families are designed to get the most out of Revit 2009 and Revit 2010. See objects at the appropriate level of detail in plan views, section views, and 3D views. The Pack also comes with a Revit project file containing all mechanical settings and system families, allowing for easy import via Revit’s “transfer project standards” feature.67 Piping and Fixture Revit Families (702 products) from Tyler, Zurn, American Standard, Nibco, and Smith. American Standard

• Selectronic
• Lynbrook
• Maybrook
• FloWise – Elongated
• ChinaLUX – Two Piece
• Aqualyn
• Declyn

NIBCO

• Couplings – 58-48 01
• Trap Adapter – 58-48 01
• Hub x Hub Bends – 58-48 06 07 08 60
• Quarter Bend w-Low Inlet Heel – 58-48 61-LH
• Spigot x Hub Bends – 58-48 06-2 07-2 08-2 60-2
• Double Quarter Bend – 58-48 37
• Sanitary and Reducing Sanitary Tee – 58-48 11
• Street – Sanitary and Reducing Sanitary Tee – 58-48 11-2
• Double Sanitary Tee – 58-48 35
• Vent Tee – 58-48 11-V
• Two Way Cleanout – 58-48 11-C
• Double Long Turn TY – 58-48 36
• Long Radius TY – 58-48 12-LR
• Wye – 58-48 10
• Street Wye – 58-48 10-2
• Double Wye – 58-48 34
• Return Bend – 58-48 78
• P-Trap – 58-48 85
• P-Trap w-Cleanout – 58-48 84
• P-Trap w-Union Joint – 58 92B 92-C

Smith

• Carrier – 0210DY
• Carrier – 0210LY 0220LY
• Carrier – 0210RY 0220RY
• Carrier – 0240L 0240LY
• Carrier – 0240R 0270RY
• Carrier – 0240D 0270D 0240DY
• Floor Drain – 2010CA Floor Drain – 2010CB

Tyler Pipe

• No-Hub – Quarter Bend
• No-Hub – Tapped Short Quarter Bend
• No-Hub – Double Quarter Bend
• No-Hub – Sanitary Short Bends
• No-Hub – Sanitary Long Bends
• No-Hub – Long Sweep
• No-Hub – Wye
• No-Hub – Double Wye
• No-Hub – Combination Wye
• No-Hub – Double Combination
• No-Hub – Tapped Wye
• No-Hub – Sanitary Tee
• No-Hub – Sanitary Cross
• No-Hub – Sanitary Tapped Cross
• No-Hub – Concentric Reducer
• No-Hub – P Trap
• No-Hub – P Trap w-Half Inch Tap
• No-Hub – Running Trap w-Double Vent
• No-Hub – Two Way Cleanout
• Service Pipe – Bend
• Service Pipe – Double Quarter Bend
• Service Pipe – Long Bend
• Service Pipe – Sanitary Cross
• Service Pipe – Double Wye
• Service Pipe – H Branch
• Service Pipe – P Trap No-Hub

Zurn

• Siphon – Z1204-2ND4
• Carrier – Z1214
• Waste Water Drains – Z415-B
• Heavy Duty Drain – Z610
• Carrier – Z1204-H

http://andekan.com/revit-families-content-pack

The Autodesk® Seek web service is the online marketing source for building product manufacturers that allows design professionals to search and select manufacturer-specific building products and associated design content, including 3D models, 2D drawings, specifications, and descriptions, from within their Autodesk software applications. Autodesk Seek is also accessible from standard web browsers at seek.autodesk.com.

Users can search for products by manufacturer, type, or file format and find everything from Revit® product family files, DWG™ files, DGN and SKP files, to Microsoft® Word documents, three-part specifications, and PDFs.

Visa Lighting, a US manufacturer of decorative and performance lighting products launches Revit files with illumination rendering capability at Lightfair 2009 May 5-7 at the New York Javitz Center. Demonstrations will take place in the Visa Lighting booth #2638 featuring Mike Collins, National Sales Manager of Autodesk® Seek. Demonstration times are Tuesday 3:00 PM, Wednesday 11:00AM and 3:00PM and Thursday 9:00 AM

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TurboSquid is the only Autodesk® partner for a Revit® content marketplace. All Revit families in their Building Components section will be guaranteed to have correct parameterization.

Revit Market is designed specifically for Revit users to buy and sell Revit families, scenes, and visualization content.

TurboSquid Revit Content

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SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Further enhancing its portfolio of solutions for building information modeling (BIM), Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK), a leader of design innovation software and technologies, announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all of the assets of BIMWorld, a privately-owned business specializing in the production and distribution of branded BIM content for building product manufacturers. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Autodesk plans to combine BIMWorld with Autodesk Seek, its online source for building product design information that allows architects and engineers to search, select and specify building products directly from their design applications. Autodesk Seek is a search-based Web service available in the 2009 U.S. versions of Autodesk’s Revit-based software applications for BIM, as well as AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD MEP software. Autodesk Seek is also available through standard browsers at http://seek.autodesk.com.

"The vision for Autodesk Seek is to be a leading online destination and one-stop-shop for high quality building product information and design files," said Jeff Wright, Autodesk senior director of Content Solutions. "By joining forces with the BIMWorld team, we will strengthen the leadership of Autodesk Seek as a powerful marketing solution for building product manufacturers, and by further leveraging our strategic content partners, accelerate designers’ access to a breadth of rich product information and design files for use during the design process."

Release Date: 2008-11-24

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The US Content Extension for Revit® MEP 2009 software provides MEP professionals with access to imperial and metric duct and pipe fittings designed specifically to meet US standards.

To meet the standards required by US-based projects, the duct fittings adhere to SMACNA standards and the pipe fittings adhere to ASME standards for Class 150 and 300 Malleable Threaded Iron and Flanged Cast Iron.

This extension provides additional building systems modeling capabilities for MEP engineers working on US-based projects.

Content is currently available in English only.

The content contained in the RME 2009 Content Extension will not overwrite any of the default content that was originally installed by Revit MEP 2009. All of the Extension content is new and have names different from any of the original content names. When you install the Extension to the same location as your existing content, many of the new content families will install in folders that already exist. A notable exception is that all of the new pipe fittings have been re-organized to be grouped by material type rather than by category. The end result is that your original pipe fittings will remain as is (organized by category folders) and the new pipe fitting folders will be adjacent to those folders and organized by material type.

IMPORTANT:
The fittings that are included in the RME 2009 Content Extension will not function properly if their associated lookup tables are not installed in the correct location. These lookup tables (.csv files) need to be installed in the same location as your current lookup tables. The default installed location for the "LookupTables" folder is:

Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\RME 2009
Windows Vista: C:\Program Data\Autodesk\RME 2009

If you are unsure where your "LookupTables" folder is located, you can find this information in the "Revit.ini" file. This file is located in the same folder where Revit MEP 2009 is installed. In this file, search for "LookupTableLocation". This will indicate where your lookup tables are installed. For example:

LookupTableLocation=C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\RME 2009\LookupTables

When you run the self-extracting ".exe" file to install the RME 2009 Content Extension, you will be prompted to choose a location to extract the content files. You should browse to the path indicated in your "Revit.ini" file, and stop one level above the "LookupTables" folder. In the example listed above, you should browse to and select the following folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\RME 2009

This will ensure that the new lookup tables contained in the RME 2009 Content Extension will be installed to the correct location.

Alternatively, you could extract the new content to any location that you desire, and then manually move the contents of the newly extracted "LookupTables" folder to the correct "LookupTableLocation" location, as specified in the "Revit.ini" file.

Release Date: 2008-10-09

The US Content Extension for AutoCAD® MEP 2009 software provides new pipe and MvParts catalogs for water and wastewater design. By downloading this extension, you will have access to components and parts specific to the water and wastewater design projects, including, large diameter pipe fittings, numerous valves, aerators, centrifuges, classifiers, conveyors, blowers, screens, gates, pumps as well as other equipment.

This new content can be downloaded for free from your Autodesk subscription login.

Parts added via this Content Extension

Below is a list of parts types added to both the US Imperial and US Metric part catalogs.

MvParts\Electrical

• Starter
  Controllers
  Interface Stations

MvParts\Mechanical

• Aeration Disc Diffuser
  Blowers
  Centrifuges
  Classifier
  Conveyors
  Gates
  Heat Exchangers
  Mixers
  Pumps
  Screen
  3-Way Valves
  Air Valves
  Backflow Preventers
  Ball Valves
  Butterfly Valves
  Check Valves
  Cone Valves
  Diaphragm Valves
  Gate Valves
  Globe Valves
  Knife Valve
  Mud Valves
  Valve Actuators

Pipe

• Buttweld Cross
  Buttweld Elbows
  Buttwled Reducer
  Buttweld Tee
  Buttweld Laterals
  Flanges
  Flanged Cross
  Flanged Elbows
  Flanged Reducer
  Flanged Tee
  Flanged Laterals

General Installation Information

Before You Begin to install the content extension, keep in mind to back up all custom parts, including the .dwg, .xml and .bmp files.

Installation Location

The content will be added to the MEP Catalog Content location specified during the original install of AutoCAD MEP 2009.

The Windows XP default location is:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\ACD-MEP 2009\enu\Aecb Catalogs.

The Windows Vista default location is:
C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\ACD-MEP 2009\enu\Aecb Catalogs.

Note: If you have moved your catalogs after installation to a new location the Content Extension parts will not be installed to the new location.

After the content extension is installed you will need to go into your options, and add the two catalogs to the MEP Catalog and then Regenerate the Catalogs.

Release Date: 2008-10-10

Revit® Extensions are a series of easy-to-use applications that extend the capabilities of Revit® MEP 2009 software in key areas, including modeling, coordination, and documentation. Specifically, the extensions provided in this executable file are: Freeze Drawings, Compare Models, Text Generator, and Elements Positioning. The file installs the Revit Extensions for Revit MEP 2009. It also includes the Extensions Engine, a platform that hosts each Extension within Revit MEP 2009.Please note that the multi-language executable file contains content in English and Simplified Chinese. Revit Extensions for Revit MEP 2009 are now compatible with the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Revit MEP 2009 software.

This new content can be downloaded for free from your Autodesk subscription login.

Place families in the centre of a ceiling grid tile. To ensure that Revit families interact with ceiling grids and automatically find the center point of a tile, you need to consider how the family is defined. For example, imagine an air terminal that automatically locates each ceiling tile as it is moved around. To do this, create or edit a family to add reference planes, which will give a strong reference when moving the family around.Reference planes are used because the air terminal in this example is 24 x 24 and it needs to be placed in the center of a 24 x 24 ceiling tile.The reference planes placement is marked with red in the figure below.By making sure that the added reference planes are used as strong references, the air terminal will now automatically highlight the ceiling grid lines when a reference plane comes near to it, making it very easy to place the air terminal and lock it to the ceiling grid line. Where the reference planes are added will depend on the individual family and the required functionality. http://www.autodesk.co.uk/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=452932&id=10368612&linkID=8678924