Revit Pure Live #034 - Managing Revit Libraries with Randall Stevens

Randall Stevens joins the live session to share strategies to manage your Revit content and libraries. Randall is the CEO of AVAIL, which offers a cloud platform to manage all BIM content, including loadable and system families, legends, schedules, details, images and much more.

Have you ever struggled to organize your content? Are you confused by what should be in your template and what should be kept in different files? After this episode, you should have a better idea of how you should organize your content.

This episode is sponsored by AVAIL. AVAIL helps you manage your BIM libraries, including families, legends, details and much more. Learn more here: https://resources.getavail.com/revitpure

Timestamps:

0:00 - Pre-show music
2:42 - Intro
5:10 - Introducing and chatting with Randall
12:39 - AVAIL mission
16:44 - AVAIL file management
22:00 - AVAIL template as graphic standards
26:37 - Progressive search for family
35:05 - Q: Searchable metadata?
37:00 - Q: Automatic or manual tags?
44:35 - Q: Can you search by version?
44:58 - How does AVAIL deal with type catalog?
49:40 - AVAIL – Harvest: container library
55:55 - Q: is the data on the cloud or local?
59:12 - Q: Can you track user data?
1:02:55 - Q: What is a channel?
1:08:41 - Q: Free vs paid version of AVAIL?
1:10:24 - Q: Can AVAIL be combined with another cloud storage?
1:14:00 - AVAIL training/learning resources
1:18:03 - Q: Does only the person who creates the channels need a license?
1:21:39 - Where to find AVAIL discounts?
1:22:08 - Episode wrap up
1:23:46 - Post-show music

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