From the course: Revit Insight: Energy Analysis

Insight: Behind the scenes - Revit Tutorial

From the course: Revit Insight: Energy Analysis

Start my 1-month free trial

Insight: Behind the scenes

“

- [Narrator] Behind the scenes, there's a couple of things that I think you should know about if you're going to use Revit with Insight. You can share this with people that don't have Revit and aren't doing the energy modeling but want to participate in a team looking at the results of any analysis. I can log in, so that you're able to share projects with team members and collaborate. You can see that members have been invited. There's a band that says "Shared," if I were to pick a project, so from any device, if you have access to the Internet, you can become a team member that participates in reviewing very early in the design process preliminary models that are trying to address sustainability issues. The other thing is that the data that you're seeing in the Insight dashboard is created in Green Building Studio. So if I show just what's going on there, you see that my projects are stored on Green Building Studio, but then the results are displayed on the dashboard that is Insight. You can see that projects that you're about to create are geographically located in the world. They have a certain number of additional runs that look at design factors calculated. If I was to pick a project, say I look at the one we're going to call Model Submittal 03, by additional runs, what I mean is if you look at where it says wall to window ratio north walls at 95%, but then down here, with single clear glass, with double glass, with double low emissivity, triple glass, so there's a whole lot of extra calculations going on behind the scenes that you don't see and don't have to model, 250 alternatives, you can get Insight to do that for you. If I look here under the weather data, you see that it's got the data that we'll see in Insight when we work on it, but it's also got all of these additional charts and graphs showing us prevailing winds and so on, for different times of the year. So there's a lot of data being produced that I'm getting behind the scenes. The other thing is that you're using a cloud-based product, and you want to know whether that is available to you. I would say in the last five years I can think of one instance where it wasn't available for about 15 minutes, but the idea here is that this link will show you what the status is for Insight. So if we look at all of the things that are on the cloud, if we go down to here, you can see where it says "BIM 360 Insight," that's the United States, or on Europe, and everything is good. The nice thing about this is if there's any scheduled maintenance, you can sign up for this. They'll give you advance notice of anything that's being done, which if there is something, it's usually done over the weekend. But also there's a history, so any documentation of issues that there have been would be here. You can see that it's got a clean bill of health by and large. If you dug a little back in history here, you might see, I don't think there's anything for Insight, but you might see, so for example, with these other products, there's a little legend to show what these mean, so degraded service, maybe it was a little slow on certain days, but you've got there a place to check out, if you're question is, "Is it me that's doing something wrong, "or is the service not running at the moment?"

Contents