RTC AUS Wrap Up.

Kiwi Codes has had a very successful time exhibiting at RTC AUS at the “Langman Hotel” in Auckland New Zealand , 16th to the 18th May. 

It was great to catch up with allot of our existing Australasian clients and get their feedback on how they are using our time saving Revit tools and also hearing their fantastic suggestions for future enhancements to our existing tools and also new ideas for other tools.  It was also great to showcase our tools to others who as yet are not our clients. 

Common questions that were asked by people were:

1. Do you offer Network/Floating licensing model for your tools?
2. It would be great if Family Browser showed the currently loaded families in the current project as a separate group like what KC Project Browser does.
3. How can we buy all of your products at once as a suite package?
4. Are you attending RTC NA this year?

The good news is that items 1 & 2 are going to be addressed in a new build of Family/Project Browser by the 31st of May 2013.  Keep an eye on our web site for the new build/features this Friday.

A suite license is something will address a little further down the track.  We need to change around our licensing a little to allow a single key to unlock selected features, but it is all possible.

The real exciting news is that, Yes we are attending RTC NA in Vancouver Canada on the 11th – 14th July 2013.  North America is our biggest customer base and we are really excited to meet face to face our existing customers.  If you are there make sure you find some time to visit us at Booth #21 for a catch up.

HOK implement Kiwi Codes Solutions firm wide.

We are very pleased to announce the strategic partnership between Kiwi Codes Solutions and the leading design, architecture, engineering and planning firm, HOK.  HOK have this week announced a global roll-out of Project Browser and Family Browser throughout their firm.

“HOK has been looking for a family and project browser management solution for a long time with very limited success.  Kiwicodes’ simple and elegant approach proved to be the most flexible and powerful compared to other tools.  ”  - Greg Schleusner – Firm wide buildingSMART Leader – HOK

“I have implemented Family Browser successfully at another practice and KiwiCodes have always been very responsive to our feedback. This factor alone was very important to HOK because we like to fine-tune everything to suit our needs. Couple this with the tool’s beautiful simplicity, and the decision was quite clear.” – David Baldacchino, buildingSMART Manager - Texas Region

With this alliance, Kiwi Codes will gain valuable insight into the complexities of Project and Family management across a global firm, while HOK gain instant productivity gains through Project and Family Management, like no other Revit Addin on the market does.

These developments mark the beginning of an exciting era for Kiwi Codes Project and Family Browsers. 

Sheet Counter 2013 - Video Tutorial

Over the last few weeks there has been a bit of a rush on our Sheet Counter product which has been fantastic.

Because of this I thought it would be timely to do up a tutorial video on how it actually works.

Let us know if you find this useful or have any other suggestions how we can improve this simple but useful tool.

Independent Review of Family Browser

Don't just take our word for it.  Family Browser IS FANTASTIC and saves you a ton of time.

Adam Simmons from Gensler reviewed Family Browser at the latest Autodesk University 2012 in Las Vegas  recently and below is the screen cast from his presentation regarding Family Browser.

Thank you Adam for taking the time to try and review Family Browser.

Family Browser Advanced Search

A few weeks ago we updated both Family Browser and Project Browser with an advanced search function that can search by family Name, Family Type, Parameter Type, Name and Value.

I have included below two YouTube video to show how easy this function is to use.

Project Browser - Views on sheets

Recently Steve Stafford of Revit OpEd and James Herndon from TheRevitBlog  has just recently blogged about different ways to show graphically views which are placed on sheets in the Revit Project Browser.

While these ways are a valid way of achieving that task we believe that with Kiwi Codes Project Browser we have a much more elegant and visual way of achieving this.

This YouTube video shows just how easy it is in KC Project Browser.

PROJECT BROWSER HOME PAGE

New Installers - Silent Parameter changes

 

You may have noticed in the latest build of our products that we are now using flash new installer software.

We have done this to be more Windows compliant and certainly helps with the Family/Project Browser deployment and uninstall etc.

One side effect that this has caused is the new Parameter values required to install our Apps Silently. Instead of the "/s" switch this has now changed to "/qn ALLUSERS=1" for example you would run "FamilyBrowser-1-10-15-1.exe /qn ALLUSERS=1" from DOS or a VB script at user login to install Family Browser silently for all users.

Email us if you have any questions regarding this.