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ArchiCAD 21 – New Stair Tool

DebunkTheBIM

Show us, your party faithful that have stuck with you for 1, 2 even 3 decades, that you still know how to spin the wheels in the industry and will not be relegated to the lower ranks of solution-providers that craft entire road shows around pitiful improvements on previous releases. My dear, beloved, ArchiCAD and Graphisoft.

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The Constructor that was not meant to be.

DebunkTheBIM

Get rid of the architectural baggage Archicad was weighed down with, and make Constructor a stand alone, construction focused, modelling package. 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. Sell it as a box.

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The chicken and the egg.Are software developers supposed to lead an industry or just serve it?

DebunkTheBIM

Archicad did it for an entire decade through the nineties; Presently, both packages and many more are all plodding along route 2. AutoCAD pursued strategy no1 in the eighties and early nineties.

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Forget “BIM”, and Get on Board with BLM – Building / Built Environment Life-cycle Management

Building Information Management

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. BIM is the life-cycle management of the built environment supported by digital technology.

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DebunkTheBIM: 'Now, that IS clever!'

DebunkTheBIM

I found it in Archicad’s Object Depository while searching for something else. The object was obviously designed to be used within Archicad and supposedly by professional kitchen designers, yet the ‘output stamp’ was so highly pre-created that anyone with access to the software could make use of it. at 6:38 AM.

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The Caterpillar challenge – Make BIM and the global AEC cool!

DebunkTheBIM

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. Unfortunately, this ‘BIM thing’ has been anything but successful.

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