Category: CPD

BILT ANZ 2018 Speaker Feedback

Hello everyone,

I trust you are all doing well.

Allow me to share with you some feedback I received from attendees of my session at BILT ANZ 2018 held in Royal International Convention Centre, Brisbane Australia on the 25th of May 2018.

Statistics for your references
Of 96 sessions (presented by 81 speakers)

12 – received an excellent

81 – received a good,

3 – received an average

0 – poor

0 – not rated.

Average Speaker Score: 2.42 | Average Material Score: 2.43

Session number: 2.5

Topic: Structural Data Mining using Revit-Dynamo-PowerBI Workflow

How would you rate this speaker (*Average Speaker Score): 2.36

How do you rate the quality of the speaker materials (*Average Class Material Score): 2.63

The number of responses: 7 (I’ve got 13 delegates who attended my session from 24 delegates who registered for the session and only 7 gave their feedback).

A selection of comments:

  • Well presented and structured presentation
  • Very knowledgeable about the topic
  • Well defined notes. Will make it easy to understand when I get back to the office.*Attendees rated speakers as follows:
    3 = Excellent, 2 = Good, 1 = Average, 0 = Poor

If you happened to be one of the attendees in my session, your feedback is highly appreciated and thank you for your support. I hope you learned something new in attending my session.

Have a wonderful day.

Cheers,

Allan Cantos EngTech MICE

Session 2.5: Structural Data Mining Using Revit-Dynamo-Power BI Workflow

After 21 hours of long travel (7 hours from LHR-AUH and 14 hours from AUH-BNE), my wife and I finally arrived at Brisbane airport.

Tomorrow will begin the BILT ANZ 2018 which is expected to break the past BILT ANZ attendance. My understanding is, the current attendance already reached 490 and still counting.

If you are looking for a session where you are interested in transforming your Revit data to life, please come to my session and I’ll have a live demonstration of the workflow.

Here is my agenda for the session:

First, I’ll demonstrate the process of preparing the data you need using Revit schedules. I bet this part is the easiest one for all of you. Nothing is so much excitement about this.

Next, since Power BI works smoothly with Microsoft Excel, I’ll use Excel to store our data-mined information from Revit.

After that, I’ll create a simple Dynamo graph to automate the process of sending the information from Revit to the spreadsheet. Thus, eradicating potential human error caused by copy and pasting or manual typing.

And finally, I’ll bring the data to life using Power BI. You’ll all learn a basic understanding of how to build your Power BI project.

I hope to see you all in my session.

Once again, here are the details:

Date: Friday, 25 May 2018

Session: 2.5

Presentation Topic: Structural Data Mining Using Revit-Dynamo-Power BI Workflow

Presentation Time: 5:00pm – 6:15pm

Duration: 75 Minute Presentation (including question time)

Categories/ Level: Structure, Data Management, Autodesk Revit | All Levels

For the complete program, please visit: http://www.rtcevents.com/bilt/anz18/schedule/

Cheers,

Allan Cantos

Dimension Style with Tick or Arrow & Dot

I came across one question on the Revit Forum about how to create a dimension where both ends have different tick marks. One end could be a DOT and another end could be an ARROW or TICK.

Here are my steps:

1. Create a new Family – Metric Generic Annotation.rft

2. Draw a line and lock both ends to the dimensions (make them equal from the center vertical reference plane).

3. Add dimension for the total length and assign a parameter, call it “Length”. Make it instance parameter.

4. Save this as Arrow_Symbol.rfa (name it whatever you want).

5. Create another Metric Generic Annotation family for the arrowhead and, in my case, dot tail, then load them both to step number 4.

6. Assign Dimensions to the newly loaded families. Again, make these instance parameter.

7. Assign parameters to the dimensions on step 6 and call it “Half_Length” with formula equals to “Length/2”.

8. Add “Label” reference text so you can specify a text note you would like to write, for instance, “Slope Down”.

9. Save the family and load it into your project.

Here is the finished product:

Cheers.

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