Game Changer: Nested connector extrusions in Revit MEP Families The BIM Manifesto 2024-03-05 | @mep_guy showed me a new technique for putting duct and pipe connectors in families - making families MUCH more easily customizable. In my opinion this is a game changer in terms of being able to have generic families that are infinitely customizable without having to build in a million reference planes and dimensions which make these families difficult to deal with.I've got a whole airside mechanical equipment family pack available at mepguy.comYou can check a video of that out here: youtu.be/POwhwG7xJy4
STOP OVERMODELING! The Two Biggest Mistakes Everyone Makes in Revit MEP The BIM Manifesto 2024-02-17 | Common Mistake #1: Overmodeling.Common Mistake #2: Going to the ends of the internet to find specific manufacturer's families for equipment.Solution #1: Appropriate modeling. Know what you're doing and why you're doing it. Solution #2: Get the Magic Box family or make your own.This isn't a follow-along tutorial, this is more of a show n tell presentation on the topic of **intentional modeling,*** by showing how I would lay out an early design mechanical room.You can find the Magic Family Pack at mepguy.com
Type vs Instance Parameters in Revit: Whats The Difference? The BIM Manifesto 2024-01-23 | A quick show n tell for Type vs. Instance parameters, and how to use them effectively in your projects.PS If you're interested, the two families I use in this video are available to buy at mepguy.com
Im forking this channel. BIM here, simple living on new channel. The BIM Manifesto 2024-01-22 | If you're into BIM stuff, stick around. If you want the postconsumer stuff, head to youtube.com/@tyler.disneyAfter an unexpectedly positive experience kicking the tires on Revit recently, I've decided to start making more Revit, BIM, and EngVis content. It doesn't make sense to mix that in with the postconsumer praxis stuff, so I'm making another channel for all things offgrid, autonomy, frugality, anticonsumerism, permaculture, etc.
This Machine Kills Airborne Junk: Plant Air Purifier The BIM Manifesto 2021-05-28 | An animation I made for Origen Air: this is their Sentinel unit, which uses Enhanced Plants (as well as a UVC chamber) to clean indoor air.More info about the tech: origenair.com/enhanced-plant-technologyModeled, animated, shaded, sim'd, lit, and rendered in Blender with Eevee. Video edited in DaVinci Resolve.
Passive House Community Centre The BIM Manifesto 2020-06-01 | North America's first Passive House community centre, the Clayton Centre. Natural ventilation, radiant ceiling panels, night flush, HVLS ceiling fans, ERVs... what a cool project. It was super fun to make this animation.99% of the models were in Revit, by others. All animation, rendering, FX, and some custom modeling, done in Blender. Editing in Da Vinci Resolve.
Natural Ventilation Chimney in a Classroom Building The BIM Manifesto 2020-05-18 | This is the design for George Brown College's 'The Arbour' building.
Why Engineering Visualization Matters The BIM Manifesto 2020-05-12 | This is how I think about what it is I do, which is Engineering Visualization. Visual storytelling of engineered systems for non-engineers. My focus is on the built environment. Thanks Sam Fish (@slamdish on insta) for the shoot.
Zero Net Energy Medical Office Building below baseline cost The BIM Manifesto 2019-12-28 | Integral Group Oakland designed this MOB for Kaiser to be Zero Net Energy at below baseline mechanical system cost with no fancy technology - just good engineering design.integralgroup.com/projects/kaiser-permanente-santa-rosa-medical-office-building
Make electricity and heat with one device: hybrid solar technology The BIM Manifesto 2019-12-28 | I made this animation showing how Naked Energy's ( nakedenergy.co.uk ) hybrid solar technology works. READ BELOW in the description for answers to frequently asked questions.Here's a note from Nicholas Simmons, co-founder of Naked Energy:"Thank you everyone for your comments - it's great to see so much interest (and an abundance of healthy scepticism!). Just to clarify that heat is really important - especially in the context of generating sustainable energy that can help mitigate climate change. Also we know that PV cells have a temperature coefficient (-0.32%/K with the PERC cells we are using) that reduces their efficiency as they get hotter. Virtu is aimed at the global imperative of decarbonising heat and the electric output is a bonus, piggy-backing off a high efficiency evacuated tube solar thermal collector. For statistics on heat usage globally please see - ren21.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/gsr_2020_key_findings_en.pdf and for commercial / serious questions about VirtuPVT or VirtuHOT please refer to www.nakedenergy.co.uk "Regarding PV Cell Efficiency at High Temperatures, Nicholas Simmons from Naked Energy has this to say: "PV cells regularly get to very high temperatures. If you return to your car on a hot summers day you know how hot it can be. A conventional PV module traps the cells behind glass and lets them bake in the sun. When a solar panel is made the temperatures used in the lamination process go up to something like 150C. As mentioned the efficiency of a solar cell drops off as temperature rises - this is known as the temperature coefficient and is published on the data sheets that go with PV modules. A conventional solar module has no way of losing heat other than through convection, but at the height of summer with no breeze and high ambient temperatures there is very little cooling going on. There is a lot of academic research out there discussing this. The virtuPVT heat exchanger as described in the video is constantly taking heat away to be used for other heating / hot water / process heat. Consequently a virtuPVT collector can actually be cooler than a normal PV module under the same circumstances.Patents can be found here: patents.google.com/patent/US9605875B2 / patents.google.com/patent/US9869491B2
Make Good 3D Views in Revit: Isometrics The BIM Manifesto 2019-05-07 | Called out of retirement for a video on how to make isometric views in Revit good enough to put on the drawings or a report.This is from a MEP perspective.
Make Good 3D Views in Revit: Perspective The BIM Manifesto 2019-05-07 | Need a perspective view good enough to put on a drawing sheet or report? Watch this.
Sorry to bother you, but your house is on fire The BIM Manifesto 2019-05-01 | Sorry to bother you, but your house is on fire. It's hard to look our future in the face. Most people can't do it for more than a moment or two.The human psyche can't take staring sublime horror dead in the eyes without flinching for years. I certainly can't. I go through waves of looking it in the face, and then flinching into various forms of cognitive coping mechanisms. You know:"There's nothing I can do about it - I'm just one person.""I work in sustainability - I'm doing my part.""Cold fusion, brah!""The Global Awakening will transform human consciousness and we'll all get, like, woke.""Wind and solar will enable us to have prosperity *and* save the planet!""Green growth!"It's all a spectrum of denial. Climate denial isn't something that only some Republicans and oil-industry-sponsored think tanks indulge in. That's the easiest kind to spot, but the kind of subtle denial rampant within progressive circles is perhaps even more dangerous, more potentially destructive.The kind of denial that I indulge in, that my friends and colleagues who are in the business of addressing climate change indulge in, is more destructive because we can't safely admit it to ourselves, and so we've cut off an important feedback loop. The idea that we're in denial is deeply shameful to us, and the idea that all our work is just pissing into the wind of inevitable catastrophe threatens the very cores of our personal identities. The idea that we're wrong, that what we've sacrificed so much of our personal and professional lives for is a dead fucking end, is horrific. It fills us with a deep, sublime, yawning chasm of horror that we can't face for more than an instant. It feels like to fall into that chasm would be the end. It is not the end. You can't go around it. But you can go through it. There is life on the other side. But you have to face it, and feel it, all of it, first. --Oh, also, this is my 7th of 10 eevee learning animations. Sound: "Dark Ambient Drone.wav" by Patrick LIeberkind on freesound.orgfreesound.org/people/PatrickLieberkind/sounds/396457
Base Mounted Pump The BIM Manifesto 2019-05-01 | I'm learning eevee, the new rendering engine in Blender 2.8.
Im Learning Eevee 4/10 The BIM Manifesto 2019-04-18 | I'm doing 10 short animations to get the hang of eevee, the new real-time rendering engine for blender 2.8.The chop job on the concrete material is my error, not some eevee glitch.
Im learning eevee 3/10 The BIM Manifesto 2019-04-14 | I'm learning eevee, Blender 2.8's new real-time rendering engine.This one I was practicing the process of animating a Revit model. Process is:Arrange 3d views in RevitExport each view to FBX.Import each FBX into a separate Collection (doors, floors, walls, windows, CHW pipes, etc)Then shading, lighting, camera animation, etc. I started learning eevee by taking Chipp Walters' Definitively eevee course, highly recommended. His channel:youtube.com/user/cwalters56
Im learning eevee 2/10 The BIM Manifesto 2019-04-14 | I'm teaching myself the new real-time rendering engine in Blender 2.8, eevee. I started with Chipp Walters' Definitively eevee course: highly recommended.youtube.com/user/cwalters56
Im learning eevee 1/10 The BIM Manifesto 2019-04-14 | I'm learning the new real-time rendering engine in Blender 2.8, eevee. I'm making 10 short animations.I started by taking Chipp Walters' Definitevly eevee course.youtube.com/user/cwalters56Highly recommended, I love his style of video tutorial.
Chiller Room Game Screencap Unreal The BIM Manifesto 2018-10-01 | Learning unreal, dropped this chiller room in and went for a spin. Lot's to learn but excited for the potential.
Seriously Affordable Housing The BIM Manifesto 2018-08-09 | Digital sketch of a Conestoga Hut, designed by Erik de Buhr. Check out www.communitysupportedshelters.org for more information and their channel youtube.com/@conestogahutsI'm not involved with them, just a fan.Modeled and rendered in Blender. Edited in After Effects.
daily sketch - *daylight analysis* The BIM Manifesto 2018-03-23 | A daily sketch I turned into an animation. **There is no real daylighting analysis simulation software behind this.** This is "artist's interpretation" type stuff. Simply a rendering of a scene in Blender Cycles, then the same scene with Filmic set to false color.
Timber Frame Building: UFAD or VAV? The BIM Manifesto 2017-12-14 | I made this animation to help the team decide whether to go with an underfloor air distribution system, or a traditional overhead VAV system. The timber frame structure is beautiful and we want to maximize its aesthetic impact.Architectural model by the architect in Revit. Everything else was modeled, textured, animated, rendered, etc by myself in Blender.
Old Mech Room - 3D Video Test The BIM Manifesto 2017-06-19 | Just testing a Blender to Youtube 3d workflow.
WIP Engineering Visualization The BIM Manifesto 2017-06-01 | An older work in progress showing a building radiant system starting up in the morning. Modeled and rendered in Blender.
Visualization Services Showreel The BIM Manifesto 2016-07-06 | I make visualizations for deep green buildings and systems. This is some of the last few month's work. Most of it is done in Blender. -----Music is Inscencer by PCIII under a creative commons attribution license.
Model Sloped Pipe Fast in Revit - Tips for Speed and Accuracy The BIM Manifesto 2016-01-20 | Sloped pipe... the bane of many a Reviteer's existence. Two tips in this short video for how to lay out sloped pipe quickly without getting screwed up fittings.Please share any other methods you have for sloped pipe modeling - or questions and frustrations I haven't addressed yet.
How to Edit a Tag in Revit The BIM Manifesto 2016-01-19 | Title says it all, really. Add, modify, format the parameters that show up in a tag. Also, how to control the visibility of _anything_ in a Family using Yes/No parameters and the Visibility field. Great technique for making your Families powerful and not need a ton of different families to accomplish similar tasks.
How to Make Smart Sheet Notes in Revit The BIM Manifesto 2016-01-15 | Follow up to yesterday's video - in this one I show how to make the Smart Sheet Note bubble and schedule.
How to Use Smart Sheet Notes in Revit The BIM Manifesto 2016-01-14 | *This isn't Revit's smart Keynote system, this is using Generic Annotation Families and Schedules. Check it out. ___________**UPDATE** We are not longer using this system for Revit 2017 on, since the text formatting now doesn't suck. The learning curve and potential for user error associated with this method isn't worth it now that we can use good 'ol dumb text in a list and it will format nicely. This risk/benefit analysis makes sense in our office and user dynamics circumstance, it might not in yours. Cheers.----------------Want to know how to build this for your own use? Let me know and I'll make a build-it video.Check out the follow-up, How to MAKE Smart Sheet Notes, if you want to go one level deeper:youtu.be/Q2nxOGv75BE
Prelude: SF to DC Tesla Road Trip The BIM Manifesto 2015-10-31 | I'm going to drive my company's Model S from San Francisco to Washington, DC. @tfdisney on Twitter Tylerjdisney on Instagram. Web site to come.
How to Wrangle Air Terminal Schedules in Revit MEP The BIM Manifesto 2015-07-22 | Air Terminal Schedules can be a little fussy. This video explains the basic mechanisms to get your air terminal schedule looking the way you want.
Using Rushforth Tools to Swap Shared Parameters in Revit MEP The BIM Manifesto 2015-06-04 | This plugin will save your life. If you schedule equipment in Revit... you should probably be using this.
Step 2: How To Batch update Filenames with the Command Line The BIM Manifesto 2015-03-15 | When you have a bunch of files that need to be named something else.
How to Kick Ass at Revit: The Isolate Commands The BIM Manifesto 2015-03-04 | Use the Isolate Element (HI), Isolate Category (IC), and Reset Hide/Isolate (HR) commands to level up your Revit modeling speed.
Acutherm System Animation The BIM Manifesto 2015-01-29 | Final animation for Acutherm System design.Check out Acutherm's version with sound - and their other videos - at http://youtu.be/C0ryu9WsfHA
Intro to Revit IV: View (in)Dependance and Sheet vs. Working Views The BIM Manifesto 2014-12-16 | ...
Intro to Revit Part I: Open, Close, and Save Your Model The BIM Manifesto 2014-12-16 | New to Revit MEP? Start here. This series aims to get across the basics that everyone hopping into Revit for the first time has to learn.Some of the workflows and issues in this series are specific to IG standards and workflows. You don't have to work at IG to get something out of these videos though. Feedback welcome.
How to Batch Rename files exported from Revit The BIM Manifesto 2014-11-21 | Ever export a bunch of drawings, in PDF or CAD, from Revit, and need to name them something else? Yeah me too. This video walks through the workflow I came up with. Hit up the comments if you have suggestions for how to do it faster.
The Indio Building: Net Zero Energy Retrofit The BIM Manifesto 2014-10-30 | For more information contact: John Andary, PE, LEED APPrincipal : Integral Groupwww.integralgroup.comjandary@integralgroup.comPhone 415.640.4415
How to Make Air Flow through Your Entire Duct System in Revit MEP The BIM Manifesto 2014-07-02 | How to get airflow to accurately flow all the from from your air terminal, to VAV, to AHU, to intake louver. It's all in the duct connector settings.PS I just started a new Revit blog, check it out at www.thebimmanifesto.com
Scheduling Mechanical Equipment in Revit Part II: Vendors Families The BIM Manifesto 2014-04-23 | This is how to get a Vendor's Revit Family into your Project and into your Schedule. This assumes you have a Schedule premade for the equipment with the correct shared parameters loaded into it. I show how to use Parameter Jerk to get the right Shared Parameters into the Family
Scheduling Mechanical Equipment: Part I - Premade Families The BIM Manifesto 2014-04-23 | This is how to get a Family in your Project and in your Schedule, assuming the Schedule and the Family are already made and loaded with the appropriate Shared Parameters.This is the easiest and preferred method, typically used in SD and DD.
