Database ?

[spot987]

Hi Guy's

First glance looks good. Will this be able to work of a personal database of costing or do you have to imput costings each time ? I assume maybe just trial demo and can't work off database.
or
is it getting cost from elements properties in Revit

Mark

[Marek]

Hi Mark

It's early days, in-depth documentation, etc to follow.

Your project estimates are hosted online in your account on www.bimhighway.com. All costs that you enter for a project are saved in your account. In this respect, each account has a personal database but it is online.

Projects "learn" their costings from other projects (in your account). All costs that are entered for one project are thereafter available to other projects. This potentially means that after you have costed 3 or 4 projects, subsequent projects will be costed far quicker, or even entirely.

We use the Cost field in Revit to populate the Material Cost field in the estimate.

Right now, the quickest way to get your costs into your account is to create a dummy project that uses ALL the family types you wish to cost with.

Make sure you:

(1) Apply costs to each family type.
(2) Classify each family type correctly

Subsequent projects will use this "default" data for their own costing and classification.

Note that the 'Apply To' button allows you to save costings/etc to more than one project.

[spot987]

Thanks for reply now I understand.

Mark