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Keeping your PDF’s in check – an absolute necessity for successful BIM-ming on any scale

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The long overdue third instalment of my ‘The role of PDFs in BIM’ trilogy Let me start with a long-winded explanation on, how this post is not supposed to be an argument based on the question of ‘why would one want to import one (or hundreds) of PDF file(s) into any working BIM model?’. Revit is the King of BIM!’.

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I’m onto some rose-coloured BIM issues…and here is a tip for ArchiCAD users as a bonus

DebunkTheBIM

On the other hand, the ‘cat & mouse game’ that rules my work-life these days must be a bit tedious to endure by those that come here to read on ‘pure’ BIM topics. structures rarely made sense to people that happily documented everything in black on white. Model based communication supports this idea splendidly.

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PDFs and BIM: A trilogy of posts investigating what the PDF format’s role may be in strategies transitioning the industry to BIM? First part: PDFs within current AEC – Important yet neglected?

DebunkTheBIM

This approach is somewhat surprising considering that in most contemporary construction contracts PDF’s as the digital representations of drawings have often higher standing than model files or even DWGs. It is being treated as something one puts up with until something better comes along.

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DebunkTheBIM: How well can you tell? (?If the drawings in front-of.

DebunkTheBIM

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Monday, April 9, 2012. How well can you tell? (…If the drawings in front-of you have been produced via 2D or 3D methods?). Type of hybrid?

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Same, same but different – My mother is not getting paperfreeconstruction, the concept.

DebunkTheBIM

My mother has been a solid supporter of my BIM journey over the last 3 decades. She has no idea what the ‘BIM’ acronym stands for exactly, but is closely associating it with all my professional ups and downs. I documented full houses in 3D ArchiCAD 20 years ago in our design studio, while she looked after our children.

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BIM Viewers in the Cloud vs. PDF Spatial Re-constructors on Earth (Part 2 of the overdue PDF trilogy I promised some time ago)

DebunkTheBIM

The global AEC is swarming with BIM Viewers, any service provider dealing in Building Related Information appears to have a proprietary one on offer. Commonly they offer the ability to view BIM models of various origins, maybe combine them, rotate, zoom, filter information. Some are better than others.

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BIM Objects, Data, and Information – More than a 3D Pretty Picture – Soooo Much More!

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BIM objects are much more than just graphical representations. All BIM objects have properties, and most also have geometries (although some do not, for example a paint finish). The specification is part of the project BIM, and objects live in the specification. ‘A new generation of specifiers is being empowered by BIM.

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