The Hayne Way: From Trace Paper to Presentation

Now we all know that Here@Hayne, we love Revit… However, there are times when the project is starting and different design options are still being explored. Revit has a design option tool but we find that it isn’t the most efficient way of working especially when walls and large parts of the building are going…

Tips & Tricks: Edit Revit Component Thumbnail Image

We are back with some helpful (hopefully) tips & tricks for you to use. Have you ever clicked on a Revit component before to see what the preview image is because the name of the file is “tub”… but it’s a small hard to see plan view? Well you can change that! Check out this…

the Hayne Way: My Favorite Revit Tools

We are a Revit office.  And we have been a Revit office since 2012.  We have a lot of experience working in Revit!  Now Revit is not perfect, you just need to checkout our Conversations with Revit Series to see some of our recurring issues, but it has some amazing tools that we absolutely LOVE!…

Software Spotlight: Revit Render vs Enscape

Welcome back! As we continue to work in (and love) Enscape, we thought it would be interesting to compare render views from Enscape and Revit. Before using Enscape we would buy credits and send views from Revit to render in the cloud so we could continue to work as it rendered. This was helpful to…

Project Spotlight: Sierra Towers Cabinetry

Our Sierra Towers project is moving into construction, and as we start demolition to field verify some existing conditions (like drain pipe and mechanical ductwork locations) we spent some time refining our cabinetry designs.  As we’ve talked about previously, our current work-flow is to create assemblies with individual components. This project is cabinetry heavy and…

Counter Encounters: COVID-19 Edition Episode 2

Here at Hayne, we’ve been on deadlines for some of our commercial projects.  Submittals have been interesting, to say the least!  We thought we would share a couple of our experiences… Scene: Hayne Architects is trying to complete a project submittal for a commercial project at an undisclosed jurisdiction somewhere in the United States of…

Project Presentation: Woodrow Wilson

Continuing from last week’s post, this week we have another project that we presented through PowerPoint via Zoom. Unlike the project from last week, this project we had an Auto Cad base that we were able to bring into Revit to create a BIM model. This allowed us to incorporate some 3D views of the…