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Clarity Integration with ProjectWise: Simplify and Automate Your Revit Project Management

If your firm uses Bentley ProjectWise for managing Revit projects and other documents, you understand the value of having a central “system of record” for keeping track of project materials. As a Revit customer, you also appreciate the need for a product like IMAGINiT Clarity to automate manual tasks like generating PDFs and analytics from model data. The ProjectWise i-Model Composition server can create Renditions of CAD models – but is unable to assist with Revit files. IMAGINiT Clarity can provide renditions of Revit models, whether they are in ProjectWise or not.

IMAGINiT Clarity’s integration with ProjectWise provides firms with the convenience of Revit automation along with the peace of mind that comes with a document management system. This integration features the following functionality:

• Renditions of Revit files in ProjectWise. Either on an on-demand or scheduled basis, Clarity will copy out the latest version of Revit files and perform tasks on them.
• Task Output is Shared with ProjectWise. A new “ProjectWise Check In” post-task action in Clarity enables users to push PDFs, DWGs, and other task outputs into a ProjectWise folder (whether the Revit files originated in ProjectWise or in any other system)
• Update Revit Model Tasks. The Clarity Update Revit Model tasks can check-in a new version of a model in your ProjectWise project with a new copy that has been sent in from the outside.
• Metadata Update on ProjectWise Files. As Clarity checks files like PDFs and DWGs into ProjectWise, it is possible to simultaneously update the ProjectWise metadata associated with those documents. Clarity maps parameters from sheet parameters and project information parameters into corresponding ProjectWise attributes. With enhanced metadata, files are more searchable and discoverable within ProjectWise.

The Clarity ProjectWise integration is designed to be highly flexible. The integration can be scheduled to run in batch, used in conjunction with other batch automation, and kicked off on-demand via the web.

Is Clarity ProjectWise integration right for your firm? If the answer to any of the questions below is “yes,” it’s worth learning more!

• Do you maintain Revit files in ProjectWise?
• Do you keep Revit files outside of ProjectWise, but check-in PDFs and other deliverable files?

Building Business: Purple Cherry Architects

This is part of a new series, focused on our clients’ business and how they use design technology to their advantage.

What does your organization do?
Purple Cherry Architects is a high-end award-winning residential architecture firm serving the Eastern United States, with offices in Annapolis, MD and now Charlottesville, VA. Our firm specializes in custom, luxury residential projects featuring elegant architectural detail and beautiful spaces that excite and reflect our clients.

Our Principal, Cathy Purple Cherry, brings 25 years of experience to her work; the firm aspires to a level of beauty in the homes it designs through views, details, and planning strategies that are awe-inspiring. Our firm’s designers are talented, visionary, detail-oriented, and attentive. We utilize technology to its fullest as a visual and education tool. We encourage our clients to create virtual idea boards to help us capture their preferences and inspirations.

Our firm has extensive knowledge and experience with the intricacies of working on waterfront properties and critical areas. In addition, as a LEED accredited professional, Cathy Purple Cherry has the knowledge and capability of integrating sustainable strategies into the design of clients’ homes at their request.

What is your favorite thing about working with today’s design technology?
Our senior architects are like any group of people – their ideas are different, but that’s part of what makes them a great team. They appreciated Autodesk’s Revit’s ability to:

• Eliminate mistakes common with hand drafting while providing very effective project coordination
• Quickly provide clients with views of our building designs to enable them to better visualize the different aspects of their projects
• More thoroughly understand the details of the buildings we design
• Have a model that is a source of real-world building information beyond just graphic visualization
• Provide quick responses to contractor questions that occur during the construction of our building designs
  

 

What’s next for Purple Cherry Architects?
We’re taking our technology to the next level and expanding our geographic footprint into Charlottesville, Virginia.

 

It’s great to hear from clients and prospects on how they are growing business in various parts of the world. Will you be next to tell your story?