Description
This class will discuss the uses of Revit families, data, scheduling, and the Revit API to push Revit content to the prefabrication factory floor. We'll discuss what goes into the families, how we condition the families for prefabrication-specific content, and how we pull that content out with custom tools to send to the factory floor. We'll cover the main issues of communication between the design team and the prefabrication team, how we've solved these issues, what we output for the team, and how they use it to create the preconstruction packages.
Key Learnings
- Learn about the relations between Revit and the real world.
- Learn about challenges and limitations facing electrical contractors.
- Learn about using the Revit API to export and condition Revit parameter data to the factory floor.
- Explore solutions to common problems affecting MEP contractors.
Speakers
- JEJosh EversoleJosh Eversole is a BIM Technology Manger for Power Design Inc. with nearly 15 years of experience in the field. Josh worked diligently to bring Revit Solutions to Power Design, creating brand standards, custom families, procedures to ensure Power Design used Revit as a data management tool and leveraged its capabilities for more than just drafting and clash detection. When a need of the company went beyond the capabilities of Revit, Josh worked with a team of subject matter experts to create a suite of in-house tools from setup automations to fabrication integrations. These efforts improved quality, productivity and brought Vital information out of Revit and into the Real world.
Kevin BumbargerKevin Bumbarger is a Senior Process Engineer for Power Design Inc. with nearly 14 years experience in the field. Early on Kevin worked with business processes creating turn-key solutions with Excel VBA for a growing Power Design. Eventually He branched out into the Oracle space helping to shape business apps in Application Express. In 2021 he was able to leverage his degree in Industrial Engineering by joining the brand new Prefab team and developing process and manufacturing flows and layouts to get Prefab off the ground. Kevin created the original software used to design prefab unit branch wiring and panels in an Excel tool, eventually passing this off to a redesign in Revit. Kevin currently manages the feature set and process of Prefab's custom applications, shop floor flow and layout, and maintains all the software that converts prefab design into physical media used in the manufacturing process.- GKGregory KleinGregory Klein is a full-time Full Stack developer and a licensed engineer, currently serving as the Software Engineering Lead for .NET at Power Design Inc. Focused primarily on Preconstruction, he has been working in the fields of Engineering, VDC , Estimating, and Prefabrication across the MEP space for 7 years.