A few days after the last post, I got handed a model that seemed like it should have worked perfectly. The nested families were already set up as Shared. The IFC export was running. The geometry was coming through. But the asset data? Completely missing. When this happens, it’s easy to jump to conclusions, and there were certainly a few…
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I had a question come through that’ll sound familiar if you’ve ever pushed Revit → IFC on a live job: Nested families are carrying asset data in Revit, but that data disappears in the IFC. LOI attributes, classification, IDs.. gone. What’s going on? This comes up more than it should, and when providing advice, far too many people are confidently…
Upgrading cloud-shared Revit models via Autodesk Construction Cloud’s Cloud Model Upgrade tool can initially feel daunting. It often surfaces a flurry of errors and warnings, but the key insight is that most issues indicate pre-existing model “technical debt”, not bugs in Autodesk’s tool. Understanding Technical Debt Technical debt is a concept originally coined by software developer Ward Cunningham in 1992….
Every few weeks there’s a new post doing the rounds about “mastering prompt engineering”. The latest one I saw claimed the author had spent 1,000 hours developing the perfect prompt framework. A long thread, a catchy acronym, multiple reposts by “AI Influencers” on LinkedIn and other social medias, the whole nine yards. The top reply to the Reddit post? Someone…
It’s a common issue, your grids show up fine in one view, but disappear in another, or sometimes grids copy/monitored from one source appear, but don’t appear from a second source. Before you assume something’s broken, here’s a checklist of the usual suspects and what to do about them. Common Reasons Grids Aren’t Showing Grid extents don’t cross the levelGrids…
When you’ve got 200+ materials in your model and someone in the viz team asks for a preview, the last thing you want to do is manually place and assign materials one by one to a cube. But that’s exactly what we were staring down on a recent project — a clean export of every used material in the Revit…
You’ve exported your model to IFC. Pipes look great. Fittings? Grey. Again. What’s going on? This one trips up a lot of teams, because pipe fittings in Revit don’t actually carry system data, even though they look like they do. So when you rely on system-assigned materials for your IFC exports, fittings get left behind. Revit’s built-in exporter just shrugs…
Having trouble opening cloud-hosted #Revit models? If you’re getting the “Failed to open document” error, there’s a simple fix that can save you hours of troubleshooting.
🛠️ The issue often happens when transferring files via #DesktopConnector—Revit models appear as .rvt but are actually .zip files.
✅ Solution: Rename, extract, and re-upload the model via the BIM 360/ACC web interface for a seamless fix.
Full guide here: https://digitalbbq.au/index.php/2025/02/20/fixing-the-failed-to-open-document-error-in-cloud-hosted-revit-models/
In a previous post, “Extracting IFC Metadata Directly in Power BI Using Power Query,” we explored how to use Power Query in PowerBI to directly extract metadata from IFC files using a Power Query shared by Shift Construction. If you haven’t read that post, I recommend checking it out first for context. A few people reached out as they found…
Metadata management within Building Information Modeling (BIM) deliverables presents a consistent challenge, often stemming from varied factors such as unclear project requirements, the experience level of modelling teams, and the degree of early involvement by BIM professionals in project planning phases. This challenge, however, is not insurmountable. The Standardised Data Tool, accessible to any user with a Revit or Civil3D…