From the Files of REVIT COPS™©®

Episode 1 – Unnamed means Unforgiven.

Dispatcher: “Yeaaaah, copy that Unit 4; Code R in the Schedules.”

[SFX: static … unintelligible]

Unit 4: “…. BACKUP! I need Backup! There’s unnamed objects everywhere! Everything just says ‘copy 1’!”

Dispatcher: “Stay calm Unit 4, dipatching REVIT COPS Unit RFT209; eta your position 30 seconds.”

[REVIT COPS™©® theme music]

[SFX: RFT209 arrives]

[stomp][stomp][stomp][stomp][stomp]

[VFX: RFT209 targets laser-sighted blast-pods on Suspect]

[hiss][whirrr]

RFT209: “REVIT USER! RENAME YOUR SCHEDULES. YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO COMPLY”

Suspect: “B.. b.. b.. but I was too busy! I was in a hurry!

RFT209: “GOOD, THEN YOU HAVE PLENTY OF TIME NOW. YOU HAVE 5 SECONDS TO COMPLY”

[SFX: RFT209 chainguns spool up]

[VFX: RFT209 beam laser heatsinks begin to glow bright red]

Suspect: “It was someone else! I was going to do it later! I know which one is which…”

RFT209: “IRRELEVANT – YOU KNOW THE LAW. YOU NOW HAVE 0 SECONDS TO COMPLY. OPENING FIRE.”

[SFX: Lots of gunfire. Lots. Enough to make Michael Bay wince.]

[Dakka][Dakka][Dakka][Dakka][Dakka][Dakka][Dakka][Dakka][Dakka][Dakka]

[VFX: RFT209 fires all weapons at Suspect. Suspect is vaporised]

RFT209: “REVIT COP RFT209 TO BASE. CASE SOLVED.”

Narrator: “Hey kids – want to stay alive? Alwasy remember to NAME YOUR OBJECTS when you create them. Don’t be gauche; don’t be dead; DO IT NOW.

After all, you don’t want visit from Revit Cops, do you?”

[REVIT COPS™©® closing music]

BIM Glossary: “Kicking a dead whale down a beach.”

BIM-cops in action dealing with manual annotation to 726 drawings.

simile: a long, difficult, disgustingly messy and ultimately pointless job that no-one wants to do. (paraphrased from The Jargon File)

Analogous BIM activities include, but are not limited to:

  • Numbering doors, windows, chairs, light switches or any object manually.
  • Any form of manual annotation.
  • Setting up 450 RLS [Room Layout Sheets] manually. Actually setting up more than ONE RLS manually is too much.
  • Converting anything produced by a Rhino user into some form of usable data.
  • Converting anything drawn by a self-proclaimed “Design Architect” into something that satisfies the brief & budget.
  • Installing and configuring any licence management software.
  • Explaining what Navisworks actually does to anyone.
  • Explaining Autodesk’s new pricing structure to senior management.
  • Connecting a MacOS system to a Windows 365 Domain.
  • Cleaning three years worth of dust out of the office workstations.
  • Removing the shite-ware that comes installed with any Windows laptop.

Examples in use:

Reviteer: “Hey BIM Manager, I’ve done this whole building in Rhino and I promised the client I would have a 3D Print for the Monday 9am meeting. I know it’s 5pm Friday but I have to go to a beach party in Fiji this weekend; can you do this for me? We’ll lose the job if there isn’t a model, by the way”
BIM Manager: “Yeah sure; I wasn’t doing anything important at all this weekend; I’d love to kick a dead whale down a beach for you.”

Project Architect: “And we’d like to number all of the bricks indvidually because the Project Manager said we need to do that”
BIM Manager: “Really? I’d rather have the QS [Quantity Surveyor] kick that dead whale down that beach.

It’s just like BIM; except in SPACE.

 

Sapce. Note lack of BIM.

Space.

We all know Space and love Space; but Space is missing something.

That’s right: it’s missing BIM.

As everyone knows, BIM makes everything better; and adding BIM to Space makes a good thing even better still.

This blog aims to add as much BIM to Space as possible; while also adding as much Space to BIM as possible. Perhaps adding more Space than need be added to BIM; certainly more than common sense dictates.

There will also be cats.