Casework Manufactures - Revit Content

[techsupport.161645]

My office here in Michigan currently uses Stevens Industries as basis of design for casework. Currently they do not have any revit content, and I have yet to hear back from our rep. if they will be developing Revit content.

With that said our options are, to find a different manufacture that has Revit content available for all their casework products, or begin the task of taking the Steven catelog and begin developing revit content based on that.

If anyone knows of a casework manufacture that supports the Revit platform 100% and has developed their product catelog items in Revit I would be interested in looking into see what they have to offer.

Thank You

[cliff collins]

Have you checked:

1. Autodesk Seek

2. AWI- American Woodworking Institute

3. 4-Specs or other Specifications websites

4. Contacted a local sales rep

I would be very careful in suggesting that you build families for the Stevens casework--
this would require hours and hours of work, and unless the Owner is willing to pay extra for this, I'd avoid it. It is high time that Stevens gets on the BIM bandwagon, or they will lose business.

cheers......

[btrusty]

Architectural Woodwork Standards - Edition 1 - 2009 (book)
comes with a CDrom that has ~480 revit cabinet families

it also has dwg & dxf, we we arent caring about that for this discussion

[techsupport.161645]

Thanks for the response guys.

http://www.arcat.com has a few good BIM product content based off of Hamilton Sorter caseworks.

I do not think its a matter of finding the type of cabinet I need, there is plent of casework content out there, but it would be nice to have a library for my user to select from that when placed would schedule has is does in autoCAD now. Since our basis of design in CAD has been Stevens we have blocks for their current Catelog.

With Revit and the nice scheduling features, even if we use a cabinet we find on another manufactures site, we essentially would have to edit the parameters to match at least the model number of the Stevens catelog so it appears in our Schedule.

I totally agree that building families based of the Stevens casework is going to be extemely time consuming. However, being the basis of our design, it might save time down the road. Dedicating the time to create all the case work is another challange.

[techsupport.161645]

Architectural Woodwork Standards - Edition 1 - 2009 (book)
comes with a CDrom that has ~480 revit cabinet families

it also has dwg & dxf, we we arent caring about that for this discussion

Thank You. I just visited their site and they had about 200+ cabinets available for download. I will definately look at order the book.

Thanks again for the responses.

[johnf.77896]

You should also take a look at www.revit-content.com they have some great stuff.

John Fleming
GMK Architecture, inc.

[Kevin Janik]

John

Do you use their stuff and can the kitchen family really create a detail kitchen? Seems like magic looking in from the outside!

Kevin

[ws]

re. revit-content.com
FWIW I use their kitchen stuff (and most of their other families now as well).

A reply from revit-content.com to a comment I made to them today (about their excellent Velux family) said that a new kitchen version was going to be posted soon, if there was anything I wanted adding

v1 of their all-in-one door family is about to be posted as well - that should be interesting.

[brad.laackman]

Case Systems is a Michigan Manufacturer of Casework and Lab tables. We have REVIT and have been building the Catalog REVIT database over the last year or so. Many project we have been dealing with in the recent past have dealt with Architecture firms mandating REVIT for the more complementary construction packages. We would be willing to assist in any way needed and we enjoy assisting local business.
Thank you
Please contact me at the following;
Brad Laackman
General Manager
Case Systems Solutions
brad.laackman@casesystemssolutions.com
9894960824

[m.thomas]

re. revit-content.com
FWIW I use their kitchen stuff (and most of their other families now as well).

A reply from revit-content.com to a comment I made to them today (about their excellent Velux family) said that a new kitchen version was going to be posted soon, if there was anything I wanted adding

v1 of their all-in-one door family is about to be posted as well - that should be interesting.

William,

The kitchen family looks to be well worth the money.

A couple of quick questions if you don't mind:-
1- The doors have glass fronts. I guess it's pretty easy to amend their family to swap materials to create a solid infill panel ?
2- Is there an option to have plain solid cupboard doors i.e without the infill panel ? If so I can see this family being useful for simple education and health projects as well as residential.

Thanks.