Hi Jeffrey,
Do you have a URL for ECOTECH or any further details. I'd like to know more
about them, but my web search led to a dead link.
Thanks!
"Jeffrey McGrew" wrote in message
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> stevewor wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We would like to use revit help produce bills of quantities,
> > give us info regarding energy - life cycle costing etc.
>
> You can go some of this just within Revit using Schedules and
> Formulas. You can generate Schedules within Revit to quantify elements
> from your project for Bills of Quantities, and you can set up custom
> parameters within families and Calculated Values in Schedules to do
> some level of energy & life cycle costing entirely within Revit.
>
> > I realize in the U.S there are third parties which can make use of xml
files,
> > Does anyone know of such things in Australia???
>
> There are two things more to mention. One is that Schedules in Revit
> can be exported to Excel & the entire Revit model can be exported via
> ODBC to any database format for automated report generation, and the
> second is that the rather nice tool, ECOTECH (which is made by an
> Australian), can now read gbXML files from Revit and use that data to
> do complex energy/lighting/acoustic/ect anylisis upon your Revit projects.
>
> If you can give some more concrete examples of what you want to do, I
> can provide more real-world examples of how you would do it inside of
> Revit or via ODBC.
>
> --
> Jeffrey McGrew
> Application Specialist BSD
> AEC Technologies, a division of ID8 Media Inc.
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