This article goes over the steps to prepare your BIM information to be uploaded as a catalog into Skema.

This KB Article includes the following:

Your catalog can be managed both in-app and through the Revit Plug-In. The capabilities of managing in both of these is different and both are explained below.

Through the Revit Plug-In you are able to manage the units that make up the catalog. If you ever make an update to a catalog element, feel like adding a new unit, or removing a unit, those functions are all managed through the Plug-In. To update a catalog or a catalog element, follow the same steps as uploading a catalog.

If you update a single unit in a catalog, only the updated unit will be changed when reuploaded, all unchanged units will remain as they were.

If the unit you update had constraints applied, explained in the specifying units portion of this article, those constraints should be reviewed after the upload is completed and may need to be reset, depending on the change made to the unit.

After your catalog has been uploaded, it can be accessed and managed through the Unit Catalogs tab in the Skema workspace.

In the Unit Catalogs tab you will see each catalog you have uploaded and that you have access to.

Clicking on your catalog will bring you into the Units page for the catalog. Here you are able to specify the contents of the catalog.

All units will import with their unit type set as unspecified, to change this click on where it says unspecified and a drop down menu will appear, here you can chose which type of unit it is.

If there is not a unit type available that applies to your selected unit, you can create a new type. To do this, click space use in the top toolbar and a list of unit types and spaces will appear where you can rename, remove and add members of this list.

The right side toolbar allows you to:

Selecting a unit from units page will open up that unit in an editing tab. In this tab you can specify which parts of the unit should not stretch when being morphed. To do this:

You can also specify the minimum and maximum dimension two walls can be from each other by clicking on the dimension. The number under from is the minimum distance and the number under to, is the maximum distance.

After these specifications have been made, make sure to click save in the top right corner. Repeat these steps as necessary for each unit to tailor your catalog to your likings, you can always come back and change these as well.

When you first upload a catalog into Skema, you will notice that it is initially unpublished. This means that only Admin users can access and make edits or fixed dimensions in the catalog.

Admin users can also test the catalog in the Skema modeling space before the catalog is fully published to the rest of the Skema users in your workspace.

Once you have gotten all your units specified to your liking there is one step left until all members in your Skema team space are able to use them in a layout, publishing. To do so go back to the units page of your catalog, and at the top right click the publish button. This will take a couple seconds to publish there will be a pop up notification in the bottom left corner once your catalog is published.

Once published you can use your catalog in a project to create a layout. If at any point you do go back and add, remove or change a unit in the catalog, make sure to republish your catalog to keep it up to date in your project.