Well, that was fun...  Last night I opened Revit 2025 for the first time... Live!  We walked through some of the highlighted new features, tried them out, and gave some commentary.  The chat was very active and the features are very promising... I highlighted some of the new Toposolid enhancements, text/annotation improvements, family improvements, auto-join walls, and more... Click here to view the replay now...  Posted by: Jeffrey A. Pinheiro, AIA at The Revit Kid.com ..read more

  On last night’s episode of BIM After Dark Live we welcomed Dan Peterson of “Revit Wizard”.  Dan was kind enough to teach us all how to build our OWN Custom GPTs and demonstrate how “Revit Wizard” (his own custom GPT) is helping teach new Revit users at his firm… Be sure to check out the replay here… Posted by: Jeffrey A. Pinheiro, AIA at The Revit Kid.com ..read more

In this Office Hour Session I spend some time riffing on Revit material parameters and management between a Revit family and project.  I also dive a little bit into materials within nested families, family material parameters, and more.  Click here to view the office hour session now...  P.S. If you think you would benefit from joining an office hour like this one... Join the BIM After Dark Community today... Posted by: Jeffrey A. Pinheiro, AIA at The Revit Kid.com ..read more

  In this video I will show three examples of AI rendering for architects with EvolveLab Veras and Autodesk Revit. AI image creation has come a long way and Veras has been adding feature after feature over the last 12 months... I'll show you how these updates will change the way you design your buildings.  Click here to view the video now.... Posted by: Jeffrey A. Pinheiro, AIA at The Revit Kid.com ..read more

  "Should I get a desktop or laptop for architecture?".  This, along with,  "what computer hardware should I get for Revit?", are the two most common hardware based questions I get... In this video I recorded an open box review of my new desktop computer, benchmark it, an compare it to it's laptop equivalent... Click here to view the video now... If you're looking for a new desktop or laptop be sure to check out BIMBOX today (and let them know you heard it here!!)... Desktop Specs: BIMBOX Stryker IV 13th Gen i9-13900K 128 GB RAM 2TB NVmE Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop Sp ..read more

  On this episode of BIM After Dark Live (Autodesk Construction Cloud: Beyond Revit Worksharing) I welcome back Scott Davis to expand on Autodesk Construction Cloud ("ACC").  Many of you know of the term (or know of "BIM360") and use it for Revit Cloud Worksharing... As great as the Revit Cloud Worksharing is (and it is great), you may not know about all of the other incredible features ACC has to offer... We will dig into how you can take full advantage of the tool you are paying quite a bit of money for... and take live questions along the way.. Some of the things we plan to touc ..read more

  On this episode of BIM After Dark Live I walked through my Revit template for custom residential architecture.  So many of the Revit template examples and downloads available are focused on larger commercial projects. I wanted to create a streamlined, minimal, and effective template that was optimized for small-scale residential design and construction. This template will give you everything you need to quickly create a model and set of construction documents for your 400 square foot home additions... not your 4 million square foot hospitals! Click here to watch the replay as I ..read more

  Well then...  you know your guest has been dropping some great nuggets when the Paul Aubin has this to say in the chat: "that's friggin cool"... If you missed this episode, definitely check out the replay!   Some of the topics Brian touched on included: - Create intelligent details using Detail Items and tags, no text or lines - Link 2D details to Model components via Global Parameters - Link 2D details into multiple Revit files such that they all update Click here to view the replay now...  Links to similar Presentations from Brian: Detailing in Revit Part 1 2 ..read more

 On this episode of Office Hour Sessions I riff about making wood trusses in Revit...  Every other week I hold a private call with members of the BIM After Dark Community.  I thought it would be valuable to highlight some of the conversations here on the channel. If you think you could benefit from an Office Hour like this one, Join the BIM After Dark Community for full courses, support, and sample files today! Click here to view the office hour session now...  Posted by: Jeffrey A. Pinheiro, AIA at The Revit Kid.com ..read more

  On Episode 102 of BIM After Dark Live, I welcomed Scott Buchanan to the show.... Scott has over16 years of Revit MEP experience  with projects in all phases from concept to design, fabrication, construction and operations.  We had a great discussion about documentation and Revit MEP and then Scott dropped a few really good tips/tricks that will actually help anyone who uses Revit (beyond just MEP)... Click here to view the episode now...  Posted by: Jeffrey A. Pinheiro, AIA at The Revit Kid.com ..read more