Revit Standards

[Brandon_Pike]

I noticed that HOK, in a move to promote standardization the the Revit/BIM industry, has posted their CAD Standards for the public to use as they choose. http://www.4bim.com/share/hok/hokcadstandards/hokcadstandards.htm

This got me to thinking, as members of AUGI and using these revit forums, we all have crossed or are crossing or will cross the bridge of developing a protocol/standard for our offices. We should post our standard documents for the rest of AUGI to read and learn from. I am currently in the "crossing the bridge phase" of things and will post when they are in a ready state.

In the meantime, does anyone care to share there devlelopments with the rest of the AUGI world?

Thanks,

[PaperStreet SoapCO]

Although I may not agree with all of HOK's standards, I do like the way that document is layed out - organized and easy enough for a new user to know where to look when in doubt.

I would appreciate seeing other firms standards as right now all of the standards in our office exist in the head of the boss - makes for a lot of redlining.

[pfaudler]

I am up with the idea of sharing BIM/CAD protocol and learn from each other.
We have CAD protocol and i am in a similar situation to the people who are migrating from CAD to BIM. I have some draft ideas in word doc. that i think would go in BIM protocol eventually. I havent see HOK BIM protocol. I will have a look and give my opinion.

Thyansk

[Brandon_Pike]

Oh come on...nobody wants to post?

[kingjosiah]

As an office relatively new to the Revit era, we would certainly benefit from observing how other more experienced firms address the corporate BIM standards. I wonder though if firms -- HOK aside -- would be hesistant to post their documented standards.

Only last week did we initiate the discussion regarding office wide Revit standards now that we've moved past the pilot project.

NIBS is starting to develop a set of BIM standards in addition to the well publicized National Cad Standards. http://http://www.facilityinformationcouncil.org/bim/publications.php. Obviously it will be generic and not as specific to Revit as the intent of the post, but may help establish common ground. It will be interesting to see how this document develops.

EDIT: my bad--i now see that HOK references the NBIM standards already....i only got as far as their corporate stds.

- Jon

[mbergin]

This link is now expired, is there any chance that someone has saved these to their computer and would be able to provide a copy of them?
I'm developing a Revit Standards text for my firm and I'm looking for some layout ideas, our production manual in Revit will differ from the CAD standards quite a bit as there will be procedural instruction on best practices, to achieve the desired result as well as graphic examples rather than a help file format.

[Kevin Janik]

I can find a copy. Please E-mail send me a personal E-mail and I will find them.

Kevin

[edneyd]

Looks like the current document is here:

http://www.wbdg.org/bim/nbims.php

[sroy]

Is the link to HOK standards bad or is it not available?

[crullier]

I am interested in this also, as I would like to contribute to the cad standards of the firm I work for.

[priitl22047477]

Could someone give a working link to HOK standards?

[Wanderer]

Could someone give a working link to HOK standards?this looks like it... http://paoloemilioserra.oos.cc/web/R/hokcadstandards.pdf

[priitl22047477]

this looks like it... http://paoloemilioserra.oos.cc/web/R/hokcadstandards.pdf

Thank you.

[cliff collins]

Anyone have an updated/current HOK Revit standard?

The one here is about 4-5 years old.

cheers....

[Wanderer]

Anyone have an updated/current HOK Revit standard?

The one here is about 4-5 years old.

cheers....They don't seem to have anything more recent available publicly...

[TerribleTim]

Interesting that they post theirs for "promoting standardization". Don't we all think everyone should use the one we use? :mrgreen:

[Revit-Help]

It would be nice to share!
I am interested in this also, as I would like to contribute to the cad standards of the firm I work for.

[k.bel4design]

link no longer works.

[mairh_tsek737243]

Hello,

This is an old tread but I found it useful.

I was wondering if anyone had an opinion about Revit Guidelines document (Standard document). Or If someone can provide me a working link to HOK standards?

Thank you in advance.
Regards,

[david_peterson]

There's this

https://www.nationalbimstandard.org/
https://www.nationalbimstandard.org/buildingSMART-alliance-Releases-NBIMS-US-Version-3

Standards for BIM that I've seen typically don't include things like Line weights, family naming, sheet naming/numbering. Most of them refer back to the NCS for a lot of that stuff.

The one that might be more helpful for you is the LOD Standard since that's usually a better metric.
http://bimforum.org/lod/

it's a much better guide line for who should model what.
In my opinion, there's way to many different ways to get to the same end result on paper (or in the model) to have a true Standard like you did with Cad.
Ie doors are always door, but what workset should they go on? Depends on the project IMHO.

How to execute BIM within your Team, I'd take a look at the Penn State Standard
http://bim.psu.edu/project/resources/
It's a great resource for IPD projects. If it's not IPD there's a lot that can be taken out.

IMHO it's better to define how you want to use the tool, than how to actually use it.