STLRUG February 2025 - Happy Hour

 Come join us for the first Happy Hour  of 2025 on Thursday, February 13th, 2025 from 5-8 PM at 360 Westport. 

This is the first STLRUG event of 2025! Come out, have a drink, relax and unwind a bit after the Holidays!  Bring a friend or co-worker! 

We are in the process of planning the first Learning Event of 2025 and will have some details for you at the Happy Hour!

Visit the link below to RSVP for the event, or just come join us if you are available!

https://stlrugfebruary2025happyhour.splashthat.com

Look forward to seeing you there!

STLRUG - November 2024 - Learning Event

Revit 2024 and Revit 2025 New Features - Learning Event

UPDATE!!  Due to work travel schedules this event has been postponed from Thursday, November 7th to Thursday, November 21st.  Event RSVP site has been updated and date has been updated in post below. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Come join us for the re-launch Learning Event of the St. Louis Revit User Group!  We are going to jump right back into Revit and see what is new for the 2024 and 2025 releases of the product.  There are new features that will benefit all disciplines using the software, so be with us as we explore some of the highlights.  We will also be discussing Learning Event topics for 2025. So come on out and help us decide on the topics that will help you use Revit more efficiently in your day to day work.

• When:  Thursday, November 21st, 2024  5:30-8 PM
• Where: Christner Architects,  621 Skinker Blvd.  St. Louis, MO 63130

RSVP HERE!!

STLRUG - September 2024 - Happy Hour

Come join us for a relaunch Happy Hour on Thursday, September 19th, 2024 from 5-9PM at the Urban Chestnut Grove Bierhaus. 

This is the first STLRUG event in two years! We are excited to relaunch the group and want to meet with you all so we can discuss your needs and focus this group to help solve your everyday problems and challenges! Come out and bring a friend! 

Visit the link below to RSVP for the event, or just come join us if you are available! https://stlrugseptember2024happyhour.splashthat.com

STLRUG 2024 - Updating Contacts

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STLRUG - August 2022 - Learning Event

Revit New Featuers - 21, 22, 23

Calling all St. Louis Area Revit users!!  The St. Louis Revit User Group is ready to kick back into in-person events after the pandemic, and you are invited!

Since we have not been able to meet for a couple years, we thought for out first event that we would cover all the new features that have been introduced into the Tool over the last few releases.

This Learning Event will cover some of the best new features that have been introduced to Revit in versions 2021, 2022 and 2023.

From General improvements to Discipline specific improvements, we will cover all of the best new features.  Come out, reconnect and learn something about the latest releases!

Click link below to register!

https://stlrugaug22learningevent.splashthat.com/

Update:

PDF of slides from this presentation can be found here.

Unofficial After-DCTC Happy Hour

If you are headed to the AGC DCTC event (hyperlink here if you haven't registered), then come join us for drinks after the event for some networking. Nothing fancy, just wanting to see some familiar faces.

Details over on the Meetup Page.

https://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-Revit-Users-Group/events/281506773/

How to pyRevit - Virtual Meetup with Philly Dynamo User Group

 All-

A utility that many of you may have noticed that dramatically expedites some processes in Revit is called pyRevit, a free utility created by Ehsan Iran-Nejad.

If you have yet to hear about this tool, I recommend visiting https://github.com/eirannejad/pyRevit

You can attend the webinar here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-pyrevit-tickets-116044104039

YAFSTL Virtual Event - Best Practices for using Enscape with Revit

Hey eveyone,
Hope all of you are well in this new normal we are living in!  Being safe and practicing all that social distancing stuff. 
With the absence of any upcoming STLRUG event, I wanted to bring your attention to a great virtual event coming up put on by the Young Architects Forum of St. Louis (YAFSTL) and the AIA of St. Louis.  The event brings one of the best speakers in the world on rendering in Revit with Enscape, and a good friend of the St. Louis User Group, Mr. Phil Read!

The event is on Wednesday, June 24th at 6 PM.  The registration link is below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83076557622

Phil Read Bio:

Phil is one of the original employees of Revit Technology and the owner and co-founder of Read | Thomas - a global BIM/VDC consulting company focused on supporting building designers, engineers, builders and owners through cross-discipline technology integration and best practices. Read Thomas has been a global go-to-market Partner with Enscape since 2015. When not traveling, you're likely to find Phil driving around Charlotte in his restored 1960 Triumph TR3A. More over here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/readphil/

Our New Normal - Post 1

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I know many of us are still hard at work moving forward on our projects. While we are away and do not have the ability to converse with each other, I found a video from one of our leaders here, Brian Myers, about getting started in Navisworks over on LinkedIn.

I thought it was beneficial as I am starting to look into Navisworks and BIM360 for doing more coordination and I hope it will be beneficial to you as well.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/revit_answering-one-of-the-most-common-questions-ugcPost-6651472394705780737-p60C

Hopefully our new normal will not last long and we will be able to see each other again soon to resume our wonderful learning and socializing opportunities together.

Until then...

BIM Manager's Toolkit Followup

Thank you all for coming out to listen to our presenters discuss their favorite BIM tools.

CTC Software presented by Matt Halveland of PGAV
https://ctcsoftware.com/

Ideate Software presented by Ellen Smith of Christner Architects along with Eric Bogenschutz of HOK

https://ideatesoftware.com/

Ellen also presented Enscape:

https://enscape3d.com/

Chris Link, our gracious host, provided two different applications. RushForth Projects and iConstruct links below.

http://www.rushforthprojects.com/

https://iconstruct.com/

And finally, Micah Gray from GMA Architects, looked at pyRevit, Dynamo, JOTools, and TwinMotion.

https://github.com/eirannejad/pyRevit

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=8481526687890452659&appLang=en&os=Win64

https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/twinmotion

Also, here is a helpful script in Dynamo for turning off the Internal Origin point in Revit.

Dynamo Graph

As mentioned at the meeting, we are looking at having a business meeting to discuss the STLRUG business that has not been discussed recently. We will look to have that meeting in mid- to late March. Be on the look out for an invite to that. This will not be one of our regular presentations.

And again, we will be having our Happy Hour in April after the AGCMO DCTC event.

Look forward to seeing everyone over the next couple of months.

STLRUG February 2020 Learning Event at CRB - The BIM Manager's Toolkit

We will be meeting for our February Learning Event at CRB on February 18th, just under one week away.  More information can be found and you can RSVP on our Meetup page. Please RSVP as this will give us an accurate count for refreshments.

https://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-Revit-Users-Group/

For all of those that have yet to follow us on Meetup, please join us on that platform as this will give you the latest updates on our events at STLRUG.

Also, do not forget about the AGC Design and Construction Technology Conference that will be coming up here in April. Look to the Featured Post in the right banner for more information. You will see many STLRUG members there assisting the AGC, so come and join us, learn about new processes and technologies that are happening in the AEC space.

December 2019 Learning Event

With the smell of the turkey and cranberry sauce behind us, it is time to get back to Revit before the holiday season.

Come join us on December 5th, 2019 at ARCO Construction Company to learn more about BIM Execution Plans. We will have a couple of students from Washington University conducting a mock BIM Execution Plan meeting for their final exam. And then we will turn our attention to our own BIM Execution Plans. What is the language that has been helpful to have in your BIMxP and what has been detrimental or could have been worded differently to avoid ambiguity or confusion?

If you have a BIM Execution Plan that you want to share before the meeting, email it to stlouisrug@gmail.com

You can reserve your spot on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-Revit-Users-Group/events/266726596/

If you do not have a Meetup account yet, you can still use this link to RSVP: https://stlrugdecemberlearningevent.splashthat.com/

AGCMO 9th Annual Design and Construction Technology Conference - Survey

Good afternoon STLRUG Members! The 9^th Annual AGCMO Design and Construction Technology Conference, presented in partnership with the St. Louis Council of Construction Consumers (SLCCC), will be held at the Eric P. Newman Education Center (EPNEC) on Washington University’s Medical Campus on Wednesday, April 29, 2020.

The Design and Construction Technology Conference Advisory Committee is in the process of creating the call for proposals for the 9^th annual conference and would appreciate your feedback.

Please click on the survey link below and answer a few questions (3-5 minutes) to help us shape the conference in 2020.

DCTC Session Survey

June Learning Event Follow Up

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Thank you for joining us for the June Learning event. We had a great time of socializing and learning about Advanced Family Concepts in Revit.

Thanks again to our presenters Chris Link, Ellen Smith, Brian Myers, and Eric Bogenschutz. We had a fantastic venue location at Paric Corporation's office in West Port Plaza.

Be on the look out for an invitation to our Fall Social Hour. The date and time have not been selected yet, so if you know of a great spot for everyone to gather, talk about Revit, and socialize, feel free to reach out to us to let us know. We are available on LinkedIn, Twitter, and regular email.

As mentioned in the meeting, you will find a link to the families that were used during the presentation for you to dissect how those families worked during your leisure.

STLRUG July 2019 Learning Event - Advanced Family Creation

Come join us for the St. Louis Revit User Group July 2019 Learning event.  This event is focused on the number one requested topic from the User Survey that we did at the beginning of the year:

 

Revit Advanced Family Creation

We will be taking a deeper dive into the Family Creation Process and will showcase some of the more advanced functions of Family development, including nested components, formulas, Type Catalogs, Adaptive Components and nested arrays.

If you are new to Revit Family Building, please see the download link below to a handout of Revit Family Creation basics that you should read and become familiar with before the event.  We will spend the first 15 minutes or so reviewing concepts in the handout and asking for any questions before we move into the advanced concepts.

RSVP to the invite below!

Event Details

When: 

• Thursday, July 11th 2019 5:30pm - 8:00pm

Where: 

• Paric Corporation Offices
• 77 Westport Plaza, Suite 250
• St. Louis, MO  63146

Link to Download Family Handout

Link to RSVP for the event

Come out and join us if you can!  Bring a colleague and introduce them to the group!

See ya there!

STLRUG April 2019 Happy Hour

BOCCE AND BEER @ MILO'S!!

Come join us for the second STLRUG Happy Hour of 2019! 
Bring some friends and colleagues to help grow our group!
Bocce ball is the vehicle for relaxation at this event!
Come  and throw a ball with us nerds!

Event is on Thursday, April 25th, 2019 from 5-9 PM.
The Bocce courts are only available until 6 PM, so come early if you want to play!

Milo's Tavern (5201 Wilson Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110) is our meeting spot for a night of fun and networking.
Come one, come all and bring a guest.

Click HERE for a link to the RSVP page.

March 2019 Learning Event

UPDATE:
See link below to download a PDF of the presentation slides from this event:
STLRUG March Learning Event - Presentation Slides


Come out and participate in the first STLRUG event of 2019!
This is the rescheduled Learning Event from February 19th.

What: STLRUG March Learning Event
When: Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 5:30-8 PM
Where: 

          Hearth Room at Hawken House
          1155 South Rock Hill Road
          Webster Groves, MO 63119

This will be a Learning Event with the focus on Tips & Tricks within Revit. We are pooling all of our knowledge and experience and hope to share some great efficiency and workflow Tips for the first half of the session. The second portion of the session will be dedicated to helping solve user problems and answering questions about anything Revit. This will be in a "Stump the Chump" format and whoever brings the best question, tip or problem will be eligible for a giveaway from our wonderful sponsor for the event: Seiler Design Solutions!

So come on out to the Hearth Room at Hawken House on February 19th and be prepared to learn some stuff! I know I will!!

RSVP to the event here:

https://stlrugmar2019learningevent.splashthat.com

Don't forget to complete the User group survey if you have not yet!

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6J2XWN3

AGCMO - BIM Education Program - 2019 Sessions

BIM is Back in 2019

The benefits and prevalence of BIM (Building Information Modeling) has grown. If your company hasn’t invested in it, it’s at least worth getting to know about it. Its staying power over the last decade has established it in the construction industry. Autodesk BIM 360 recently published Top Ten Benefits of BIM in Construction, an article summarizing the areas in which BIM has made headway in the construction industry. It’s a good read to get a synopsis.

The AGC of America has been developing the BIM Education Program (Units 1-4 & CM-BIM exam) for almost a decade, and Missouri is lucky in that some of the early authors of the program are still teaching it here. The program has been fine-tuned, and the AGCMO is offering it again this year.

The AGC of America BIM Program is returning to the AGCMO Construction Training School in March of 2019, followed by a group study session to prepare participants for the exam. The CM-BIM certification test will be scheduled at the testing center on a day/time that works for participant schedules.

2018 BIM participants work on the LEGO exercise in Unit 3, BIM Project Execution Planning. AGCMO’s launch of the new BIM Program in its 3rd Edition in 2018 was a success with a 100% pass rate on the first delivery of the 3rd Edition CM-BIM exam.

CLICK HERE to learn more about the BIM Program.

CLICK HERE to learn more about the CM-BIM Exam.

BIM Unit 1 Registration

BIM Unit 2 Registration

BIM Unit 3 Registration

BIM Unit 4 Registration

Questions? 

Contact Sarah Wright, Workforce Development Program Manager

314-678-1401, swright@stl-cts.org

February 2019 Learning Event and 2019 STLRUG User Survey

UPDATE!!!!
Due to the potential for nasty weather tomorrow night, the February Learning Event is being rescheduled for Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 at the same location.  I will update the website with a new RSVP website for the updated event.  We apologize for any inconvenience and hope to see you at the rescheduled event.

Sincerely,

The STLRUG Planning Committee


Come out and participate in the first STLRUG event of 2019!

What: STLRUG February Learning Event
When: Tuesday, February 19th, 2019 6-8 PM
Where: 

          Hearth Room at Hawken House
          1155 South Rock Hill Road
          Webster Groves, MO 63119

This will be a Learning Event with the focus on Tips & Tricks within Revit. We are pooling all of our knowledge and experience and hope to share some great efficiency and workflow Tips for the first half of the session. The second portion of the session will be dedicated to helping solve user problems and answering questions about anything Revit. This will be in a "Stump the Chump" format and whoever brings the best question, tip or problem will be eligible for a giveaway from our wonderful sponsor for the event: Seiler Design Solutions!

So come on out to the Hearth Room at Hawken House on February 19th and be prepared to learn some stuff! I know I will!!

RSVP to the event here:
https://stlrugfeb2019learningevent.splashthat.com

2019 STLRUG User Survey

Want to help the STLRUG be more effective and focus on the topics that are most important to you??

Complete our short User Survey to help plan our events for the remainder of 2019!!

The survey is only 7 questions and should only take 5 minutes, so help us help you!!

The survey can be found at the following link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/6J2XWN3

Or scan the following QR code and access the Survey from your mobile device:

Thanks for your help in shaping the St. Louis Revit User Group!!

2019 BIMForum in St. Louis - Call for Proposals

Hey St. Louis AEC Professionals, hope your 2019 has started off great!!

I wanted to call your attention to an amazing opportunity coming in September of 2019.
The 2019 BIMForum will be held right here in the great city of St. Louis!  The event is planned for September 16-18, 2019 and will be held at the Hyatt Regency Downtown by the Arch.
The call for proposals for the event is now open and this is a great opportunity to showcase how the St. Louis area is using technology enabled workflows and collaboration strategies to improve our delivery methods and build better facilities for our clients.  This is also a great conference to learn how other firms across our country are improving their practices.

The link to the Call for Proposals is below and they are looking to showcase the following:

BIMForum is looking to highlight case studies of how the building community is driving quantitative and qualitative outcomes through the development of model-centric workflows that address the entire design-build-operate continuum. In addition, we’re seeking to better understand the current cultural shifts and revisit the “human side of BIM” from past BIMForums. This will enable us to drive a better understanding of leadership qualities and strategies needed to produce the return on investment of BIM that comes from the refinement of traditional workflows and business practices as well as the growth of collaborative project delivery strategies. In the spirit of the conference being in the “Show Me State,” preference will be given to those presentations capable of demonstrating tangible examples of how metric-based results were achieved within the areas of interest defined above. Additional areas of interest are case studies on the following: 

• Model-centric workflows, model reliability, less reliance on drawings.
• The scalability of a BIM to address project delivery models beyond Design-Bid-Build, such as Design-Build, Design Assist and IPD.
•  Legal challenges of BIM, what went wrong? 
• Advances in BIM contract language.
•  Implementation of BIM Execution Plans. 
• Standards for the use of BIM and data throughout the lifecycle of projects.

Link to BIMForum 2019 Call for Proposals:

https://bimforum.org/2018/09/25/2019-bimforum-st-louis-call-for-presentations/

Don't miss out on this great opportunity!

I will make another post with links to the Registration page once that is open.