Revit and Newforma

Moving to a BIM environment from traditional 2D CAD can bring many challenges.

One of the people who probably knows most about addressing these challenges using Revit as the main design tool is my friend and ex colleague, David Light, who is employed by HOK's London office as their Revit Specialist.

In recognition of his experience with implementing Revit on many large projects, David was recently invited by Autodesk to visit their new AEC headquarters in the US for a media day and to meet their development team to give his feedback on where they should be going with Revit in the future. He describes the visit in his blog.

It was therefore very satisfying for me to get back from a trip to the Middle East on Friday to read his latest blog posting sharing his experiences of Revit and Newforma.

Newforma Project Center provides a suite of tools that help project teams manage their day to day project information. Several of these tools help with the processes that need to be managed when working in a BIM project. David references an article which describes how PCS Structural Solutions, one of the firms using both Revit and Newforma Project Center, manages their BIM design review process using Newforma's Markup Sessions to comment on 3D views in Revit.

There are other functions in Newforma Project Center that help with managing BIM projects - but I'll make some of these the subject of a subsequent posting.