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DebunkTheBIM: Now, these are nice! (Archicad at its best)

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I am a manager of construction information, tools and people. I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Saturday, April 7, 2012. Archicad at its best). Archicad at its best).

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

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I am a manager of construction information, tools and people. 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. Fully model based, fully 2D or hybrid? DebunkTheBIM.

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DebunkTheBIM: Reconstructing drawing-sets and the case of the.

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I am a manager of construction information, tools and people. I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Reconstructing drawing-sets and the case of the 'G.

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

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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.

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

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Launching the ‘paperfree’ movement, I managed to unsettle her. Almost thirty years ago, I was first talking about computer modelling of buildings. I documented full houses in 3D ArchiCAD 20 years ago in our design studio, while she looked after our children. Mark up drawings on screen? Sort them, check against models?

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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?

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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.

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

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I am a manager of construction information, tools and people. I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Tuesday, April 10, 2012. Reconstructing drawing-sets and the case of the 'G.