Weekly Roundup – Special Edition – #BILTNA 2017 – The BIMsider

Another BILT North America has come and gone, and as per usual, it rocked eh!

On this labor day Monday, it’s been a month since BILT NA 2017, so it seems like a good time to recap this year’s event. This year the BILT North America event was held on Aug. 3rd – 5th at the Westin Habour Castle in Toronto, and it was actually in Toronto right down town and on the water front.

It was a busy conference this year for me as I had 3 sessions of my own, as well as helping out Jason Boehning his MEP Dynamo Lab as an assistant.

Day 1 – Thursday, Aug. 3rd

I started off BILT NA this year with my lab “Dynamo – Everyone is doing it – Again”, which was the first lab of the conference. This year BILT used a zero client lab setup from HVE Connexions, and I learn right away that you want to make sure your datasets are of the correct version. I had forgotten to upgrade my Revit files from 2017 to Revit 2018, so when I had the 24 students all upgrade the files at…

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