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Doing BIM right: My way or the highway!

DebunkTheBIM

This fact brought home the realisation, that it is exactly 20 years since I bought my first ArchiCAD licence. That date did not mark my introduction to (what much later become) BIM, for a number of years before 1996 (about 5) I dabbled with 3D AutoCAD (fully modelled buildings with it in DOS). Again, you must use ArchiCAD.

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Revit Beginners: Journal of Building Information Modeling

Revit Beginners

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Journal of Building Information Modeling. Read what some of the industry experts have to say about BIM in the relatively new Journal of Building Information Modeling. Read what some of the industry experts have to say about BIM in the relatively new Journal of Building Information Modeling.

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Another example why it is better to stay out of BIM surveys…

DebunkTheBIM

It provides a credible picture of present day attitudes and progress made towards Building Information Modelling (BIM) in New Zealand.” Autodesk products are conveniently bundled together – not so ArchiCAD and Vectorworks (owned by the same company: Nemetschek). Note the words ‘on behalf’ and ‘credible’. Then, look at the chart itself!

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Slabs for columns are often better than columns for columns

DebunkTheBIM

It needs an ‘entree’ before I can publish: It is about basic modelling: I create a column.* I used Archicad for this particular exercise; I believe that most other ‘main stream’ AEC modelling packages work in a very similar way; I wrote today’s post (working title: The 2 essential BIM gizmos) and. re-read it.

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DebunkTheBIM: If only?

DebunkTheBIM

I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Thursday, July 26, 2012. It can’t really be that hard. Not something one should frown on, in a tight economy.

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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. One would presume a chunky market to be there for developers of PDF focused tools.

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Revit Beginners: Editable Worksets and Workset Ownership

Revit Beginners

skip to main | skip to sidebar. Lets say you have a project with worksets enabled and the whole model is on Workset 1 by default. No one else is going to be able to edit ANY modeled elements that are on that workset. or do a save to central and relenquish user-created worksets so other users can work on the model too.

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