Decluttering Your Data: Why AI Alone Won't Solve the Mess

Imagine your home is overflowing with clutter. You hire a professional organizer who tidies everything up—but without proper shelves and storage, the clean items just end up in a neat pile on the floor. That’s what happens when you rely solely on AI to clean up your asset data, especially when managing furniture, fixtures, and equipment (FF&E) for owner-furnished items in repeatable commercial spaces.

Less is More: The Minimum Viable Data Approach for BIM

First and foremost, let it be known that I am not a formally educated software development engineer or data scientist, however, I have completed an…

True or False: Shared Parameters Can Be Renamed

Contrary to popular belief, Revit Shared Parameters can be renamed with this simple workaround. I founded OpenRFA in 2017 with the goal to create a…

Purging Shared Parameters in Revit

I made a critical mistake when launching my BIM program at one of the largest tech conglomerates in the world… Oh, and I found a…

The Value of Standardized Shared Parameters

This post was originally posted to OpenRFA.org on May 8th, 2017 and is shared here for posterity. In Revit, shared parameters are unique – each…