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

DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 9, 2012

I am a manager of construction information, tools and people. How well can you tell? (…If the drawings in front-of you have been produced via 2D or 3D methods?). I’m often asked: have the documents been coordinated? The moment you are exposed to drawings (hard or soft copies) you become extremely vulnerable to them.

Drawings

Drawings Documentation BIM Modeling

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

DebunkTheBIM

JANUARY 16, 2013

So let’s talk BIM, the rosy, and pink, and lemon-yellow and forest-green… For a long time I’ve been a strong advocate of proactively using colours in construction information management, often provoking condescending comments from ‘architects that wear only black’. Model based communication supports this idea splendidly.

ArchiCAD

ArchiCAD BIM Green Drawings

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

JULY 26, 2014

PDF as a digital file-format is generally frowned upon by those in charge of creation and management of project information within the AEC industry. Some sophisticated Cloud Document Management systems claim to have solved the issue by focusing on the even bigger issue with PDFs that is managing the quantities they tend to be coming in.

BIM

BIM ArchiCAD Drawings CAD

Here is why Autodesk’s monopoly over the Global AEC is not good, not even for Autodesk:

DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 1, 2018

It started off with CAD, then, when BIM was getting strong enough to stay – it extended over almost anything to do with Construction Information Management. Almost, I state – as the non-graphical data management is still somewhat outside its claws, i.e. project, people and time document management.

Autodesk

Autodesk CAD ArchiCAD BIM

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

DebunkTheBIM

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Launching the ‘paperfree’ movement, I managed to unsettle her. I documented full houses in 3D ArchiCAD 20 years ago in our design studio, while she looked after our children. Keep doing the same things as always (draw, model, write, read, sketch…) just don’t use the paper. Mark up drawings on screen? Or a tablet.

BIM

BIM Modeling IDEA ArchiCAD

DebunkTheBIM: Design managers working in the AEC: specify what.

DebunkTheBIM

APRIL 10, 2012

I am a manager of construction information, tools and people. Design managers working in the AEC: specify what ‘type’ are you! Are you primarily concerned with managing the people on the project or managing the project information? Reconstructing drawing-sets and the case of the 'G. DebunkTheBIM.

Management

Management Design BIM Drawings

DebunkTheBIM: Open BIM? Are we living on the same planet.

DebunkTheBIM

MARCH 27, 2012

I am a manager of construction information, tools and people. Archicad and Tekla are old enough to know this. My everyday work IFC is working well but I'm using ArchiCAD and engineer is using Tekla Structure. The IFC translation user interface in Revit is poorly documented and poorly presented. DebunkTheBIM.

BIM

BIM ArchiCAD Revit Modeling

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

DECEMBER 29, 2014

The more advanced versions allow the users to spatially connect corresponding points within various sheets to create a digital mesh, approximating the end-(or originally documented) building. At a minimum they are able to accurately place PDF sheets within the digital environment, across 3 axes and to correct scales. Part 1: [link]'

BIM

BIM Modeling Environment Revit

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

Building Information Management

JUNE 6, 2013

In traditional documentation we would ‘say it once, and in the right place’, however with BIM, we want to ‘author it once, and in the right place, to be able to report it many times’ Figure 1: Appropriate location of information. The specification is part of the project BIM, and objects live in the specification.

BIM

BIM nemetschek Vectorworks Life Cycle Estimating

Revit Beginners: The Data Manager

Revit Beginners

MARCH 23, 2007

The Data Manager. Some people refer to these individuals as Data Managers or Data Leaders. In an Architectural Record article " Getting on Board with Building Information Modeling " Larry Flynn describes a Data Manager as someone "responsible for coordinating the various computer files and models that are integrated into a BIM."

Revit

Revit Management CAD BIM

Revit Beginners: In-place Cavity Walls

Revit Beginners

JANUARY 20, 2010

We used to complain that CAD drawings looked horrible and now that concept has nearly been forgotten. Once the principals saw the data loss and loss of efficiency from such workarounds they got over the look of the documents. especially as documents became a secondary deliverable to the coordinated BIM. ArchiCAD vs Revit.

Revit

Revit CAD BIM Autodesk

Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. The topics include the use of BIM in: student projects, interdisciplinary collaboration in studios, scheduling and estimating classes, IPD projects and facilities management. buildingSMART alliance Conference.

BIM

BIM Conference Education CAD

Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Building Information Management

DECEMBER 2, 2012

The efficient life-cycle management of the built environment will not happen until change management is accelerated. The topics include the use of BIM in: student projects, interdisciplinary collaboration in studios, scheduling and estimating classes, IPD projects and facilities management. buildingSMART alliance Conference.

BIM

BIM Conference Education CAD

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

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

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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?

Here is why Autodesk’s monopoly over the Global AEC is not good, not even for Autodesk:

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

DebunkTheBIM: Design managers working in the AEC: specify what.

DebunkTheBIM: Open BIM? Are we living on the same planet.

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

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

Revit Beginners: The Data Manager

Revit Beginners: In-place Cavity Walls

Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

Critical Issues and BIM – NIBS buildingSMART alliance conference – January 7-11, 2013

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