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Revit Content Introduction & User Guide

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Copyright © 2016 IGS BIM Solutions

Miele Australia Revit Content Introduction & User Guide

May, 2016

This document provides a detailed insight into the Miele Australia Residential Revit content library (Primary website: www.miele.com.au, BIM-specific website: www.mielebim.com.au.) The content has been created natively in Revit 2014, allowing you to design and document 167 Miele product types including:

- Tumble Dryers - Microwaves - Washing Machines - Dishwashers - Refrigeration - Ovens - Steam Ovens - Rangehoods - Coffee Machines - Cooktops - Warmer Drawers

This introduction also covers the Revit content development methodologies used by IGS BIM Solutions in creating the families ensuring a consistent, intuitive and reliable library of Revit families. Whilst we acknowledge that user opinions and preferences vary when it comes to the way Revit families are created, we do hope this library will save you a lot of time and require minimal, firm-specific localisation / standardisation when appliances are required in your projects. Should you require products outside the range of models supplied in the current Revit content library, please contact Miele Australia.

http://www.miele.com.au/

http://www.mielebim.com.au/


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Table of Contents: 1.0 Miele Family Creation Considerations

2.0 Miele Revit Content Product Range Overview

2.1 Coffee Machines 2.2 Cooktops 2.3 Dishwashers 2.4 Tumble Dryers 2.5 Washing Machines 2.6 Microwaves 2.7 Ovens 2.8 Rangehoods 2.9 Refrigeration 2.10 Steam Ovens 2.11 Warmer Drawers

3.0 Miele Revit Content Specific Product/Revit Considerations

3.1 Consistency is Everything! 3.2 Files Size Overview 3.3 File Size End Result: 3.4 File Size - Revit Project Impact Experiment: 3.5 Level of Detail Settings: 3.6 Product Data Structure: 3.7 Non-intrusive Materials Library: 3.8 Ventilation Warnings: 3.9 Clearance Zones & Niches: 3.10 Cooktop Specific - Clearance Zones: 3.11 Niches, Clearance Zone & Hard Clashes – Making Design Feedback: 3.12 Reference Planes Designed to Make Your Life Easier: 3.13 Built in Voids - Cooktops: 3.14 Built in Voids – Other Categories? 3.15 Default Mounting Heights: 3.16 Connectors Considered: 3.17 Integrated Dishwashers - Adjustability:

4.0 Closing Statement


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1.0 Miele Family Creation Considerations The Revit families have been made to a consistent, high standard with the objective of finding a balance between complexity of use, functionality, documentation output, file size and performance in the Revit project environment. The primary Miele Revit content creation considerations are listed below: - Families supplied in Revit 2014 format.

- ANZRS has been used as a guiding reference point in the creation of all families.

- Native Revit geometry used throughout including nested families. (E.g. no AutoCAD or

SAT files etc.)

- The families have been created in a non-hosted template as opposed to a face-based template as this has been the current industry preference. The families can be relatively easily nested into a face-based template if required. Should industry demand change in the coming years Miele may look to convert its library entirely to face-based templates.

- 3D geometry has been hidden in 2D views with Masking Regions and 2D line work

applied to ensure documentation consistency and regeneration speed in Plan, Section and Elevations.

- Consistent family and shared parameters (ANZRS and standard IGS parameters) have been used sparingly, allowing for key Miele attributes to be adjusted and scheduled in the Revit project environment.

- ANZRS based Subcategories have been applied to all geometry and line work. The way the Miele families document can be fully customised using Revit project View Templates and overrides.

- Reference Planes have been applied, named, set to the correct ‘Is Reference’ and are tidy. Thought has been given to the likely end user requirements in placement / alignment and dimensioning of the families. The Origin Point has also been applied accordingly.

- Detail Level settings (Coarse, Medium and Fine) have been applied to 2D line work and 3D geometry improving model performance.

- All Warnings have been reviewed and removed where possible.

- The families have been fully Purged and all additional Materials, Line Patterns and Fill Patterns removed.

- Logical and consistent Type naming has been applied across all families.


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- Omni Classification has been set appropriately.

- The family file sizes have been optimised to be relatively small when the family’s overall capabilities are considered ensuring large Revit projects are not burdened by Miele families. A file size study has been outlined below.

2.0 Miele Revit Content Product Range Overview The Miele Revit Content library is comprised of 11 product categories, 109 Families that are capable of representing 167 products.


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The Miele Revit families and sample overview Revit projects supplied for each product range are listed below:

2.1 Coffee Machines

2.2 Cooktops

2.3 Dishwashers

2.4 Tumble Dryers

2.5 Washing Machines

2.6 Microwaves


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2.7 Ovens

2.8 Rangehoods

2.9 Refrigeration

2.10 Steam Ovens

2.11 Warmer Drawers


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3.0 Miele Revit Content Specific Product/Revit Considerations Outlined below are a series of considerations that have gone into the creation of the Miele Revit content library:

3.1 Consistency is Everything. Considerable effort has been taken to ensure this library has been created consistently; from Subcategory application to Shared Parameters to 3D previews. This library will document consistently for you and be easy to customise if required via batch processing.

3.2 Files Size Overview Prior to commencement of this library IGS conducted a lot of research on what to include and not include in the families, with a primary consideration being family file size and ultimate burden on a Revit project. We looked at many items with this lens but two standout aspects came to the fore: 1. E.g. “Don’t model the logo” vs “We like having the logo for visualisation”.

The original Miele Revit families used 3D text for logos adding significant file size. We have since revised and compromised this argument to be Model Lines with a Detail Level Settings override resulting in a 20KB addition to file size.

2. Cooktop: “Don’t model the Trivet” vs “We like more accurate models” We have included the Trivets and Burners mainly due to the clearance zone calculations discussed later in this document. We have optimised their geometry to not include too many curves.


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3.3 File Size End Result: With the above illustrated points in mind (along with many other decisions along the way) the resulting family file sizes are summarised below:

Average size = 529KB Min = 348KB Majority < 470KB Max = 1.184MB

Example: Cooktop 1 Burner = 768KB

3.4 File Size - Revit Project Impact Experiment: To test the impact of the largest file on a Revit project we placed it in the out-of-the-box sample Revit project and arrayed it 1,400 times to represent a large apartment project. The experiment is outlined below: The Sample project array and the Cooktop family:

The resulting Revit Project impact:

1400 Instances Original and new file size difference = 1.992MB Per instance impact on project = 1.4KB


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3.5 Level of Detail Settings: Fine, Medium and Coarse Level of Detail settings have been applied to all families in 3D, Plan, Section and Elevation views enabling visualisation and printable drawings at any scale.

Front Elevation Example Fine:

Medium:

Coarse:


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3D Perspective Example Fine:

Medium:

Coarse:


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3.6 Product Data Structure: Each Revit family has been populated lightly with Types and Parameters primarily consisting of the following breakup: #1 Pre-built Types: Consistent Type naming #2 User Input Parameters: Adjust parametric families & offset heights #3 Material Application: Leave this alone #4 Max/Min Calcs: Applied to mimic the real world product #5 Product Spec Code: As implied #6 Product Specific URL: Access to current product information and tech data

3.7 Non-intrusive Materials Library: The Revit content is accompanied by a very basic, non-intrusive materials library. Materials are named with the prefix of z_ so they sit at the bottom of your materials library. All unused materials assets have been deleted from the families in addition to purging out all material assets where possible.


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3.8 Ventilation Warnings: Allowing sufficient space for ventilation is a major consideration in placing Miele products in projects. Insufficient allowance has the potential to cause substantial cost and inconvenience implications to the project down the track. Where applicable, we have included ventilation warnings in either Plan or Front Elevation views. This text note is turned on by default but can be turned off in the families’ Type Properties under Visibility.


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3.9 Clearance Zones & Niches: Similar to ventilation requirements, clearance zones are a major design consideration. Where a Niche is required for a product – a clearance zone is included in the family in both 3D and 2D. These clearance zones have been set to a specific Subcategory of Required Space and can be turned off en-masse via View Templates.

3.10 Cooktop Specific - Clearance Zones: Clearance zones have also been included in Cooktop families. For optimal accuracy, clearance zones have been measured from the burner tops (hence needing to model trivets) and are intended to be used as a guide when placing Rangehoods. For further details and additional clarification, you can view the specification literature via the product-specific URL within each Revit family.


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You will also note that different Cooktop / burner outputs require different clearance zone requirements:

3.11 Niches, Clearance Zones & Hard Clashes – Providing Design Feedback: A major focus in creating the Miele Revit content library was to provide users with intuitive Revit content that assists with making informed design decisions. You can see from the example below that a combination of Niches, Clearance Zones and Hard Clashes mean that design errors can be picked up before they make it to site. Note. We always recommend accessing the most up-to-date product information and guidance in the product specific URL’s present in each family. This is in addition to the design feedback built into the Revit families.


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3.12 Reference Planes Designed to Make Your Life Easier: Wherever possible we have provided Reference Planes, set to the correct ‘Is Reference’ and positioned to make placing, aligning and dimensioning the appliances in your Revit project easier. We have also taken into account key design considerations like Cooktop burner offsets to surrounding objects. As shown below these considerations are very important when placing a Cooktop.

We have assisted with this process by applying named Reference Planes to the extremities of burners as illustrated below.


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3.13 Built in Voids - Cooktops: Cooktop families include built-in voids allowing benches to be cut indicatively where the bench cut-out needs to reside. Due to these families not being face-based the ‘Modify’ tab and ‘Cut’ tool needs to be used after placing the families. Note. Please refer product specific URL’s in the families for the most up-to-date bench cut out information.

Cooktops viewed in Coarse (left) and hidden on the right revealing bench cut-outs.

3.14 Built in Voids – Other Categories? We have included voids in other appliance categories that represent the products’ Niche dimensions. We have provided this facility so families can be placed into mass objects or walls etc. in your Revit project for early visualisation purposes. Using these voids to ‘Cut’ the surrounding item results in products that display correctly.

Before, After and Visible Niches when hidden:


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3.15 Default Mounting Heights: All families have a default mounting height applied. This means that items that are not meant to reside on the floor don’t load into your Revit project on the floor. The parameter (Manufacturer_Height From FFL) is Instance-based and can be changed as required in the Revit project. The default mounting height for each product category is listed below:

3.16 Connectors Considered: Connectors have been added where appropriate and their applied location is as close as possible to actual location on the given appliance.


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3.17 Integrated Dishwashers - Adjustability: Integrated dishwashers require adjustability in overall height and plinth height in order to align with casework/kickers etc. This has been considered in the Revit families via two Construction parameters: 1. Plinth Height 2. Adjustable_Overall Height The adjustable overall height parameter has Maximum and Minimum constraints that reflect the actual adjustability of the product.

By altering the two parameters as outlined below the family changes accordingly: 1. Plinth Height > Increased by: 100mm 2. Adjustable_Overall Height > Increased by: 55mm


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4.0 Closing Statement Ultimately the overriding goal in creating this Miele Revit content library was to increase the ease in which you are able to design, document and specify Miele appliances in your Revit projects. Miele is committed to the continued development of this Revit content library as the industry and BIM processes evolve over time. We welcome your feedback and insights so that we can continue to accommodate your Revit content requirements.

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