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Product Line Sheets Solid Air on MEPcontent renewed!

09 November 2018

10325 new and renewed Solid Air articles can be used from today by MEPcontent subscribers in Stabicad for Revit and Stabicad for AutoCAD. The PLS contains articles including properties and dimensions to make it possible to place and order the articles dimensionally stable.

In addition, Solid Air has added a large part of its perforated and swirl diffusers to the Revit .rfa range on MEPcontent.

Solid Air ceiling diffusers
Solid Air Climate Solutions offers you a wide range of ceiling diffusers. Ceiling diffusers are ideal for creating comfort zones due to the possibility to lock in larger airflows and thus remove high thermal loads. All Solid Air ceiling diffusers meet the highest demands in terms of comfort. Solid Air diffusers are suitable for both fixed and suspended ceiling installation.

Missing items?
If you miss certain items and would like to work with these items? We are happy to help! Please contact the MEPcontent team or your contact at Solid Air, or directly with the Solid Air BIM department.

How Long Before Robots Build Everything?

06 November 2018

20 years ago, when humans talked about robots, it was still the reign of imagination. Back then, we could barely envision a world where robots could effectively accomplish tasks that were previously the exclusive domain of humans.

Today, we see robotics making headway through technologies such as exoskeletons, 3D printing, modularization and robotics, AI and analytics, digital twin technology, and supply chain optimization.

These allow managers to increase efficiencies, safety and speed through automation.

The article continues on the Constructible platform >>>

The most frightening traps when working with BIM content

06 November 2018

When dealing with BIM content, there are two most important things that come above everything else. Making the correct choice about what content to use based on technical, maintenance and cost information and making sure the content you download is reliable and contains correct information. Here are 6 ways to make sure you chose the best content for your projects and here you can read more about what criteria guarantees the quality of your content.

We identified a couple of traps that can potentially be threatening to the correct use of BIM content in projects. And we also came up with a solution to completely eliminate these.

1. Files downloaded and stored locally

It goes without saying that downloading files on your computer and only using them after a few weeks, when you need them for a project, is not the perfect approach to working with BIM content.

The information contained in the files is in danger of getting depreciated since the content is no longer in synchronization with the platform, where any product changes are immediately made available.

2. Forgotten bookmarks

Bookmarks are actually great ways to store sources that you want to revisit when in need for specific content. But ask yourself if your bookmark structure is organized well enough that you can quickly find a page you saved a few months ago.

And even if you are a guru of organisation (kudos to you for that), bookmarks don’t have the ability to friendly remind you: “Hey, here’s a page that you really need right now, but you totally forgot about.” Unless you don’t manually open the bookmarks menu, the links stored there are forever lost.

3. Skimmed newsletter content updates

Every week you can be sure that at least two or three content highlights of the week from different manufacturers can be found in your inbox, in the MEPcontent newsletter.

But maybe you are reading the email in your lunch break, or in the evening, and you don’t really need the content at that specific moment. By the time you switch to reading the next email, the updates are out of sight, out of mind, and you may never remember that you really wanted to use that heat pump you read about in the newsletter.

One size fits all: this time for real

Instead of downloading the files locally, or simply storing web sources in your bookmarks or your memory, you can make use of a great functionality that will save you all of this trouble. Right next to the “Download” button on the content pages, there is a “Add to download list” button.

Collect all of the items that you think you might use one day in a virtual folder and only download them when you are working on your project. Being stored on the platform, you are sure they always stay up-to-date and ready to be used.

Try the download list functionality straight away to optimize your workflow!

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