BIM Pure Live #003 - Creating a Residential Template

A new episode of BIM Pure Live has been released! This time, I dig into the template I made for a client from Toronto, Haroon Malik. Haroon has accepted to share some secret tricks I developed for his custom template. He specializes in residential architecture, especially renovation of homes.

Here is everything you will learn in this episode:

▪ Create a window tag that displays the area of the window.
▪ Use DiRoots Family Reviser to quickly change families prefix.
▪ Use SOFiSTiK North America BIM Tools plugin to quickly change the font used in the template/families.
▪ Create a room tag that displays both the metric and imperial area values.
▪ Use DiRoots ParaManager plugin to quickly create dozens of shared parameters to use in schedules.
▪ Create a plan view colored scheme based on user-created parameter.
▪ Create a room schedule that displays area in both units and a percentage value.
▪ Set a north arrow that can be rotated in your title block
▪ Create an electrical plan for simple residential work.

The live show now uses the chapter feature from YouTube, which means you can easily jump from one topic to the other.

The episode uses our BIM Pure template has the basis for the video, make sure to check it out.

Next episode will be with an amazing Revit educator, really excited to bring her on. Stay tuned!