Content Highway 2006 - Pre announcement (Due Q1 2006)

[Marek Brandstatter]

Firstly - apologies to all for the late delivery. Content Highway has undergone 3 complete rewrites since we started on it 15 months ago. Furthermore we've simultaneously been developing Estimate Highway (also due Q1 2006).

Content Highway's status is as follows - we're busy testing the program internally and all main features are working. However there's still a few weeks polishing and code cleanup ahead of us. In the meantime, here's a brief description/overview of the latest feature set.

Content Highway is an ambitious and exciting project to manage and share Revit families - from your desktop, to the web and back again.

Content Highway is comprised of two separate yet related applications, Content Highway Desktop and Content Highway Web.

Content Highway Desktop

Content Highway Desktop is a content management solution for Autodesk Revit that allows you to manage Revit family (RFA) files on your computer and optionally publish them to Content Highway Web for sharing and collaboration.

Key Features

- manage Revit families on your computer and network
- batch publish your families to the internet for communal sharing
- optional uploading of family metadata, images or RFAs
- simultaneous grid and thumbnail dualview
- dynamic resizing of thumbnails using a slider
- find families using instantaneous "search as you type" methods
- assign and edit family properties
- sort families by any number of fields, including Supplier, Uniformat, Masterformat, Path, Filename, Cost, etc.
- associate custom images to families
- associate multiple URLs to families
- create URL 'thumbshots'
- create local Suppliers list
- classification by Revit Category, Supplier, Uniformat, Masterformat 95, Masterformat 04
- drag drop families into Revit
- type catalog editor
- manage types from catalog files (coming later)
- manage types from Revit (RVT) project files (coming later)

Content Highway Web

Content Highway Web is a web service that lets you share Revit family files with collegues or the world. Although you can use the site to host Revit family files and share them privately, Content Highway Web is more appealing as a communal Revit resource.

Key Features

- upload/download request system that simulates 'peer to peer' file sharing
- classification by Revit Category, Supplier, Uniformat, Masterformat 95, Masterformat 04
- powerful filtering methods: by user, country, category, ranking, etc
- three rankings methods, namely owner's ranking, your ranking, global ranking
- separate discussion thread per family/type
- multiple pricing fields: material, labour, equipment, sub contractor
- supply pricing for new construction and demolition

Marek Brandstatter

[Mr Spot]

Sounds awesome Marek, Looking forward to seeing the final product!

[rhys]

Great Marek, sounds like you are getting there. I look forward to seeing the product. Any hint on pricing yet?

[Marek Brandstatter]

Any hint on pricing yet?

Probably somewhere between $149 and $349 but we will only finalise pricing closer to actual release date.

I'll post some screenshots later today of the current working version .

[Kevin Janik]

Do you have any information on your "Estimate Highway" and how it works?

Kevin

[zanzibarbob7]

Thanks Marek,

Iv'e been anxiously awating your program. Glad to see it near the end,

[blads]

Looks and sounds great. Estimating package sounds interesting as well - thanks for keeping us informed, Marek.

[Chad Smith]

Damn, that looks sexxy.

[dhurtubise]

Can't wait, anyway to endup in the beta testing team ?

[Marek Brandstatter]

Content Highway is on track. Everything slowed down a little bit over the holidays but our coders are now back in full swing. Main features are wrapped and working, its all about optimisation and cosmetics now. We're close but not there yet - stay tuned.