I have finalized a toolkit using Power BI dashboards and the ability to visualize warnings to analyze Revit model issues. This has been an long time issue for a lot of us on knowing which models are having health issues. What do I mean by that, a big one is excessive amount of warnings in the model which can lead to all kinds of ugly issues. This happens to all disciplines; Architecture, Structural, and MEP. But lets not forget excessive amounts of worksets, design options, linked or imported CAD files, non-standard object styles, model or detail groups, and the dreaded in-place families. These are just some of the items we should be keeping track of in every Revit model that we work with.
In the past this has been virtually impossible to know, let alone see trends, on when one of our project models has gone rogue. Blasting off the rails and into the ditch based on one or multiple categories that I mentioned above.
So with these dashboards we finally know which models are in trouble but I have also been working on additional tools to help visualize warnings inside Revit. In the past this has been a tedious task trying to find, locate, and visualize where these issues are within the Revit model. There isn’t much fun wondering through the forest of 4,397 warnings which can be a daunting task to say the least, especially trying to use this wonderful built-in interface within Revit!
Using any 2D or 3D view we can start to not only visualize what elements have warnings (red/yellow) but also have the ability to color code and filter (blue) which type of warnings to work on and where those are located. Anyone that has done this task would see this as a huge time saver!
Architectural Model Example
Structural Model Example
MEP Model Example
I’m proud to be able to offer this toolkit so you and your firm are able to gain valuable insight into the current health of your models as well as long-term trends. Ultimately your firm can become proactive, instead of reactive, when Revit models go haywire. Being able to visualize, diagnose, and resolve where warnings are occurring in your models can eliminate hundreds of valuable hours often wasted by BIM Managers and Coordinators trying to find exactly what elements need to be fixed.
