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Creating “Win-Win Success” using Navisworks Quantification with BAM UK

26.06.19 04:42 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)

It's always better when someone else tells your story for you right? Well recently BAM Construction UK shared how they worked with the team at Autodesk to do just that. Their story tells how they used Navisworks Quantification as part of their BIM workflows to make things better, so we thought ...

Syncing Field Equipment Properties with Revit

24.06.19 04:29 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Syncing Field Equipment Properties with Revit

BIM 360 Field is offering a great way to track data on the building suite using your iPad, e.g. the status and install dates of certain equipment. But what if you want to see this data in Revit? 

The answer is pretty simple - the new BIM 360 Plugin for Revit gives you a very easy way to sync the...

Announcing Navisworks 2017 Update 1!

23.06.19 04:22 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Announcing Navisworks 2017 Update 1!

We are pleased to announce the release of an important update for Navisworks 2017. From today, subscription customers will be alerted of its availability through the Autodesk Desktop App. This update represents the culmination of a lot of work to focus on existing customer issues, and we hope that y...

Skanska Norway and BIM 360 Field: A Resounding Success

22.06.19 04:18 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
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The Statoil Pilot Project – A Success Story with Construction Technology

Skanska, one of the world’s most successful project development and construction firms, has been implementing BIM on projects around the world for many years. By utilising state of the art construction technology, they have...

SmartPlant 3D loaders for Navisworks – Updated!

21.06.19 04:10 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
SmartPlant 3D loaders for Navisworks – Updated!

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to provide an update for SmartPlant 3D (.vue) file format support in  Navisworks.

On Friday we published updates to the 2016, 207 plugins and published a new 2018 version of this popular plugin for Navisworks.  The update incorporates fixes for some customer reported...

Welcome to the AEC Bar - a YouTube channel for AEC professionals

20.06.19 04:05 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Welcome to the AEC Bar - a YouTube channel for AEC professionals

For those that follow me on social media you may have seen we've been trying out something a bit different to get news to you about tips, tricks, news and information about products in the form of a YouTube channel. The European team of technical specialists has set up a YouTube channel named 'Autod...

About this Blog

18.06.19 03:08 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
About this Blog

Welcome to ADN DevBlog. These blogs are maintained by the Developer Technical Services (DevTech) team - the worldwide team of API gurus providing technical services through the Autodesk Developer Network. 

Whenever any of us comes across some information on programming for Autodesk technology th...

Using classifications in naming conventions

17.06.19 02:25 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Using classifications in naming conventions

One subject that regularly comes up when discussing BIM and classification is how these should be including in naming conventions for labels/titles. This conversation could be around the naming of items such as layers, documents or objects.

I have been keeping an eye on this recent Twitter discu...

Please spend 10 minutes to take part in our National BIM Survey

16.06.19 02:20 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)

It's that time of the year again. When we ask the industry to give their thoughts on BIM adoption.

We've undertaken this survey every year since 2011. Our Market Research and Analysis team analyse the results and then
 we publish the report to the industry 'free to download' each Spring.

So please...

Westminster

15.06.19 02:04 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Westminster

At the end of January I had two trips to Westminster to discuss digital construction.

The first was to take part in an 'expert roundtable' chaired by Chi Onwurah who is Shadow Minster for Industrial Strategy, Science and Innovation. NBS provided some of the participants as did the Fede...

NBS National BIM Report 2018

14.06.19 01:56 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
NBS National BIM Report 2018

One of the best parts of the job is working with our NBS Research team each year to produce the NBS National BIM Report.
thenbs.com/knowledge/the-national-bim-report-2018

It's always fascinating to see the opinions from hundreds of construction professionals on the subject of BIM. It is al...

Articles from this year's NBS BIM Report

13.06.19 01:52 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Articles from this year's NBS BIM Report

Every year in the NBS National BIM Report we try and source some interesting articles to produce a great combination of survey analysis and some thought provoking content.

This year is no different.

The first article is from Bryden Wood's Jaimie Johnston. Jaimie looks at offsite constru...

Digital Transformation in Architecture

12.06.19 01:48 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Digital Transformation in Architecture

A quick blog post to mention that our NBS Research Team have been involved in another interesting industry report that is free to download. Working with the RIBA and Microsoft we have published the 'free to download' Digital Transformation in Architecture report.

Having blogged about the recent&...

NBS - Now in Canada and Australia

11.06.19 01:44 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)

Following the launch of NBS in Canada earlier this year, we followed this by launching in Australiaat BiLT ANZ last month.

The first NBS offerings introduced into these territories are the NBS BIM Object Standard and the NBS National BIM Library.

NBS Create - Latest software enhancements

10.06.19 01:41 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)

The May 2018 NBS Create software update has introduced a nice new feature that allows users to search the content of their project specification.

When a job is opened, the new search interface is positioned above the Contents panel.

New search feature
Searching for text within clauses


All prod...

Come and visit NBS at the Great Exhibition of the North

09.06.19 01:22 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Come and visit NBS at the Great Exhibition of the North

If you are in Newcastle between now and 9th September 2018, please come and visit NBS as part of the Great Exhibition of the North.

We're on the Innovation Trail and we have loads of interactive experiences for 4 to 94 year olds! So if you want to be inspired by the fa...

BiLT NA 2018 in St Louis USA

08.06.19 12:59 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)

Between August 9-11, NBS will be playing a big part in BiLT NA in St Louis USA.


In 2017 NBS acquired Digicon Information Inc, the market-leading specification company for Canada.
 Earlier this year, we updated our BIM Object Standard to make it applicable to Canada and we also laun...

Discover NBS

07.06.19 12:57 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Discover NBS

We have a number of different events coming up where you can come and hear
 about some exciting product developments from NBS.

Last week we published our Discover NBS web portal which will provide details on these plans:

Some dates for the diary - either to come and see u...

Creating BIM Objects to International Standards

06.06.19 12:35 PM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Creating BIM Objects to International Standards

This blog post includes a few extracts from my BiLT NA presentation at St Louis, USA. Rather than a printed 'hand-out' this is a brief summary with hyperlinks to useful links and some of the video sequences from the live examples...

1. The need for standardization
Standardization allows for efficienci...

Sign up now to receive a copy of the NBS Technology Report

05.06.19 11:25 AM By Ebrahim - Comment(s)
Sign up now to receive a copy of the NBS Technology Report

Last year we surveyed hundreds of construction professionals to understand what technology they were currently using to get ahead.
 We also asked for their opinions on where technology was going with respect to construction industry.
We are putting the final touches to the report now.
If you want ...
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