Hi, welcome to my Blog.

My name is Tom Dorner and I have been a Revit user since 5.0.  Not as long as the true Revit converts, but pretty early in the game none the less.  I work for a small architectural firm where I have been producing CD's, renderings and studies with Revit.  Our Revit implementation too a huge step backward when my wingman Aaron went to work for a re-seller or as I like to say "went to the dark side". (just kidding Aaron, you made a wise move!).

I also coordinate the Minnesota Revit Users Group (MNRUG) which has been up and running now for two years.

I have never run a blog before, so this is all new to me.  I figured since I owned the domain  www.reviteer.com and my hosting company GoDaddy.com offers free quick blogs I would give it a try.

I guess my purpose in running this blog is to share some of my Revit knowledge I've gained along the way and to maybe make a few friends.  I differ in a lot of respects from most Revit users in that I have more of a corporate real estate and construction background rather than pure architecture.  I also have a database background having used relational databases since the late 80's.  Remember Rbase?  Still the best database I have ever used.  I currently do most of my database work in MS Access or SQL Server and report via Crystal Reports.

I always tend to look at Revit from a database perspective since thats what it is.  My answers to posts on AUGI and Revitcity and posts on my blog will always look at the answer from a database perspective.  Since Revit is a Building Information Model (BIM) you always have to keep in mind the integrity of the database and how the data is used by other down stream participants in the construction process.  This idea of database integrity is lost on most Revit users in my opinion since they are focused on producing paper CD's rather than a database of a building.  This approach leads them to find solutions that "look" OK rather than be OK within the database.

That's all for now as Mythbusters is coming on (can you say GEEK).

Tom

 

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