Mike Engel

What BIM data is most valuable to you outside the file? outside authoring application? Tell me "why" in the comments, what would you do with access to this data? #Revit #openbim #AEC #archicad

@redrunner92 Everything is different from a standard project.

Q for #architects in the U.S.: Have any of you worked on projects for the VA (Veteran's Affairs) Department? For those who have, what are some tips you would give to someone starting their first VA project?

@bobbyfijan Have seen this in higher end hotels

A really interesting small JR 1BR (410sf) No window in the bedroom ... but there is one in the bathroom

@_TheDanWarren That’s a pretty solid rule of thumb

@mengelmn The man who taught me how to work in Revit and taught me how to model families kinda of instilled in me , if it’s smaller than 2”x2”x2” you can usually live without modeling it.

@_TheDanWarren This isn’t to say I never over modeled and created geometry to represent the smallest of details. I may have been the first, but I always tried to question and validate it was valuable first.

@_TheDanWarren Had that discussion with interior designers for years on my projects and content. Personally I always found it better from a design perspective to model less, the minimums for communicating an idea. The less I modeled them simpler to consider alternatives.

@JacobWSmall Only 4 significant digits?

@_TheDanWarren Model in place roofs built as an import from a cad file where the origin is 476.5719 degrees East and 815.652 degrees north.

I’ve definitely been the one to point items like this out. Guilty as any one. But Lately I’ve begun wondering does it matter? If it functions, the owner is happy, it’s safe. Do we as design professionals really have a say, is our opinion worth something?

@_TheDanWarren We kinda joke that this file naming is the way, but is it really? Of all the project management tools are there really that few that are focused on helping designers work through iterations on a day to day basis?

@JacobWSmall @mengelmn Uh… the “.latest.v2.1.pdf” is the latest.

Hey Architect and Design Friends! What tools and methods do you utilize for “design management” ? Managing your design process and iterations? (Specifically not thinking project management)

@_TheDanWarren Sorry fixed (I think)

@johntpierson @_TheDanWarren Stupid defaults…. I also posted on threads, with correct permissions

@_TheDanWarren @mengelmn Gotta change who can reply my dude.

@CROTCHED_MTN (Also can you move to Threads?)

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@seandsweeney Also applies to skiing in sub zero air temps (not windchill)

A lot of people dunking on cold plunges in the feed tonight. Want to know why people do them? Because it feels miserable! It forces you to do something that makes you extremely uncomfortable and you have to sit there and endure stress. It’s reps, just like anything else. The more you do it, the more your ability to endure stress grows. And that translates to the real world. No one does it because “it’s fun!” They do it to get tougher. And that’s aside from the dozen or so health benefits. So dunk all you want. Just do so knowing that my 9 year old daughter is tougher than you. 😉

@bobbyfijan My bias on this is having a great dog

@bobbyfijan I think I get what your saying, but also dogs do not equal cars. I’d put how we model/build dense urban cities without thinking about how families a can be raised in them alot closer to the topic of dogs in urban areas

In 40 years, we’ll look back on allowing dogs in downtowns the same way we look at cars … as a terrible mistake for the way that it molded the rest of the environment

@eirannejad Now I am Guessing it “thin brick” contractors always love it for cost, never turns out well, you always get these types of odd installations

@brianmpayne @nicocatellier This was reality for 90% of the projects I calculated this on, plus the facade was rarely flat.

Last week, I showcased a workflow to automate openings calculation with Dynamo and a gen. annotation family. I received good questions about using curtain walls, adding part of a wall, having multiple fire compartments on the same wall, etc. Updated workflow next tweet 👇

I often wondered when firms I worked for said this, if at Accounting firms they had the same idea, specialized software for finance was just marketing and excel was the same functionally