FEATURED ARTICLE: BUILDING INFORMATION
MODELING (BIM) STANDARDS
By Rebecca Mintz, secretary, IES
BIM Committee
The IES BIM Committee requests
your help!
Have you been unhappy with the
process of documenting lighting in BIM software, specifically Revit*? Do you
wish there were features that the software had to make the lighting workflow
more compatible with those of other trades?
From the survey conducted by our
committee last year, we heard your frustration and are working hard to get
Autodesk to listen to the lighting community. However, we need your help!
Autodesk uses public opinion to
decide how to implement new features via its Revit Ideas
forum. Users post requests; other users vote on the requests. Autodesk takes
notice of posts that have a high number of votes, generally those with more
than 100 votes.
That’s where we need your help!
The IES BIM Committee has taken all the feedback we received from the survey
responses and created a series of requests on the forum. Two posts have been on
the forum for a while but haven’t received enough votes to reach Autodesk’s
attention:
- Multiple Light Sources in a
single Family, without nesting. This request was
authored by IES BIM Committee member Matt Kincaid and addresses the fact
that nesting is required for lighting families to have more than one light
source. Nesting is problematic for aiming and photometric calculations.
For more information, read Matt’s post and vote!
- Visibility Below Cut Plane In
RCP. For many of us, it is helpful to see
architectural elements, like furniture or step lights, that wouldn’t
typically be shown on a Reflected Ceiling Plan as we lay out our designs.
Currently, Revit doesn’t have a good way of showing that. There are
workarounds, like making the cut plane close to the floor, but they all
have their downsides. Allowing for visibility of elements below the cut
plane would make it easier for us to see what we need without messy
workarounds.
Please click on the links above
and vote for these ideas, as well as any other ideas you see there that you
would like to have implemented! If we band together and vote, we are hopeful
that Autodesk will recognize that the lighting industry is worth pleasing!
We will also be highlighting
feature requests each month in social media. If you see a post and want to
share it, please do! Let’s advocate for our workflow needs and our industry
recognition!
Also, please share these ideas
with anyone and everyone! We thank you for your help advocating for the
lighting industry’s needs in Revit.
Revit Ideas
- Click the first link below
- Log in to your Autodesk account (or create one for free)
- Click the vote button
- Leave this tab open (keeps you logged in)
- Click and vote for the remaining links (close each after voting)
Families - lights on sloped ceilings (6 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/families-lights-on-sloped-ceilings/idi-p/10951427
Schedules - Print Schedules (219 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/print-schedules-without-placing-on-sheets/idi-p/8528302
Schedules - Spell check (345 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/spell-check-in-schedules/idi-p/6255700
Schedules - Edit in sheet (421 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/edit-schedule-directly-on-sheet/idi-p/6598772
Schedules - Multi-line text (274 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/allow-schedules-to-display-multi-line-input-properly/idi-p/6859386
Schedules - Copy/Paste data (3 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/schedules-copy-paste-data/idi-p/10951492
Schedules - Sheet formatting visibility control (5 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/schedules-sheet-formatting-visibility-control/idi-p/10951497
Multiple light sources, without having to nest families (29 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/multiple-light-sources-in-a-single-family-without-nesting/idi-p/10574036
Support for new lighting definition - gldf (2 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/support-for-new-lighting-definition-gldf/idi-p/10951501
Families - toggle hosting methods (132 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/easily-change-hosted-family-to-non-hosted-family/idi-p/8582106
Update built-in parameters (7 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/update-built-in-parameters/idi-p/10951511
Support for MEP Logical Systems across Linked Models (3 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/support-for-mep-logical-systems-across-linked-models/idi-p/10951517
Support for ANSI/IES TM-32-19 Lighting Parameters (2 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/support-for-ansi-ies-tm-32-19-lighting-parameters/idi-p/10951521
Locate fixtures in an array - along a curve or a path (58 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/array-along-a-path/idi-p/8231208
RCP - Improved Visibility Control (14 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/visibility-below-cut-plane-in-rcp/idi-p/8307183
Improve copy-monitor workflows (2 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/improve-copy-monitor-workflows/idi-p/10951532
Lighting Fixture - multiple zone control support (3 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/lighting-fixture-multiple-zone-control-support/idi-p/10951535
Improve Support for Type B Photometric Files (*.IES files) (9 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/improve-support-for-type-b-photometric-files-ies-files/idi-p/9831091
Lighting Fixture - MEP connector enhancements (2 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/lighting-fixture-mep-connector-enhancements/idi-p/10951542
Design Options - MEP related enhancements (2 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/design-options-mep-related-enhancements/idi-p/10951547
Type catalogs enhanced to support photometry (2 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/type-catalogs-enhanced-to-support-photometry/idi-p/10951558
Update CSI OmniClass Table 23 (2 votes)
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/update-csi-omniclass-table-23/idi-p/10951561
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