ARCHIBUS Smart Client Extension for Revit

Smart Client Extension for Revit: Overview

The ARCHIBUS Smart Client Extension for Revit includes the following features that enable the integration of your Revit model and enterprise data. These features ensure that your Revit model data is relevant for the lifecycle management of your facility.

Asset Types. Connects any type of Revit element to an ARCHIBUS Asset Type and its associated database table and fields. BIM Managers can extend the mappings from a dialog right inside of Revit. See the topic, ARCHIBUS Asset Type Table. This topic is found in the System Management Help.
Parameters. Connects and bi-directionally synchronizes any Revit shared parameter with ARCHIBUS table and field data – including tables and fields that your add-in manager might have added to ARCHIBUS. See Adding a New Revit Parameter Mapping.
Automatic Updater: If you expand an area in the Revit model, the enterprise data is automatically updated. As the enterprise users request and close move orders, for instance, ARCHIBUS can update your occupancy within the Revit BIM model. Or, if you edit a Revit parameter in the Revit properties dialog, ARCHIBUS will likewise make the change if you have mapped that parameter.
Enterprise Graphics. Publishes architectural backgrounds as well as the asset boundaries, and allows for publishing single floors as well as the entire model. See Using your Enterprise Graphics from Revit on the Web.
Commands. Commands, particularly those relating to finding and fixing synchronization and data-integrity errors, are easier and faster to use. See Working with Commands - Overview.

As-Built and Lifecycle Models

More and more, ARCHIBUS users are using Revit models as the repository of choice for authoring their building graphical representations. They use detailed Revit models for architectural as-builts, and simplified, quick-load “facility record models” for day-to-day facility management.

Using the ARCHIBUS Smart Client Extension for Revit, you have the flexibility to:

Maintain the as-built model
Use a separate life-cycle model
Keep your existing facility drawings in AutoCAD, and add new buildings in Revit format as they become available.

See As-Built and Lifecycle Models.

Synchronize Revit Model and Enterprise Data for Lifecycle Management

Architects often collect a set of properties for rooms and equipment intended for lifecycle management and store them in the Revit model as parameters associated with Revit elements. The ARCHIBUS features read these into the ARCHIBUS project database, where they can be adjusted for consistency and validated against the enterprise-wide standards for data integrity. ARCHIBUS can then publish the corrected data back to the parameters in the Revit elements. In this way, the Revit model can stay in synchronization with enterprise-wide data standards for building codes, room standards, categories, and types, equipment standards and preventive maintenance schedules, account codes, division and department codes, and other backbone standards. Synchronizing against these backbone standards lets Revit data connect its information to the ERP data used to drive the overall business. See Adding a New Revit Parameter Mapping and Getting BIM Parameter Values into Validated Fields.

In the System Management Help, search for the following topics:

ARCHIBUS BIM Parameters Table
ARCHIBUS BIM Families Table

ARCHIBUS Processes

Facility managers can follow the standard ARCHIBUS processes from beginning-to-end using just Revit for the architectural graphics instead of AutoCAD, or in conjunction with AutoCAD. In particular, sites can use Revit to leverage their existing BIM models to achieve professional-quality results for high-value areas, particularly:

Space Inventory & Performance / Building Performance
Space Inventory & Performance / Room Inventory
Asset Management / Equipment Inventory

BIM Execution Plan

Your BIM projects start and end with your BIM Execution Plan. The plan sets out:

the defensible, high-value business goals you have for using BIM data
the elements of information you need for achieving those business goals, and how they flow from one stakeholder to another

ARCHIBUS provides a platform for BIM execution. All stakeholders can interact within the ARCHIBUS environment, flow communications without retyping, execute quality control procedures, and flow information into and out of BIM models automatically.