DebunkTheBIM
JUNE 22, 2011
When VICO picked up Constructor about 5 years ago, it elected to upscale the reasonably capable but also architect biased modelling software into a complicated construction suite. Get rid of the architectural baggage Archicad was weighed down with, and make Constructor a stand alone, construction focused, modelling package.
Building Information Management
FEBRUARY 25, 2014
That said, BIM has been preoccupied with 3D visualization to the extent that many/most feel that Revit, Archicad, et al are all that’s needed to implement BIM. Many/most organizations are dealing under an “information scarcity” model, when in reality we are all in an world of. Some will succeed, many will fail.
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DebunkTheBIM
FEBRUARY 10, 2011
I observed a phenomena: over the years the number of users of 3D (model) based software in AEC has raised dramatically while their average skill level dropped tragically. Archicad did it for an entire decade through the nineties; Presently, both packages and many more are all plodding along route 2.
DebunkTheBIM
DECEMBER 11, 2011
I consider myself to be a model-based construction information practitioner (shortened to a ‘BIM- meddler’) rather than an ‘expert’ or even ‘specialist’ Sunday, December 11, 2011. I found it in Archicad’s Object Depository while searching for something else. ‘Now, that IS clever!’
DebunkTheBIM
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
After good 2 decades of momentous efforts and moneys spent, the industry still is a boring old slog-for daily survival for the most working in it and an easy dirty road to the riches for a very small minority manipulating within it. Not only will this model grow into a global industry success, it would make it cool for young and old too!
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