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Aussie_BIM vs the UK_BIM, AKA the global BIM leaders (When and why had Graphisoft given up on their Australian ArchiCAD users?)

DebunkTheBIM

See, once upon a time, some decade or so ago – BIM (or VC) and Graphisoft (with ArchiCAD) were doing very well in Australia (and New Zealand)! FKA was not the only cutting edge BIM company that pushed the boundaries of BIM using ArchiCAD in Australia in the early 2000s – Rice Dabney, Woods Bagot and others did too. Making progress.

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Post pandemic AEC: BIM to the rescue? Don’t get your hopes up!

DebunkTheBIM

So successful was Mr Sutherland in selling the concept of BIM (or VC as it was still better known then) to the architects of NZ that even after many years had passed I was repeatedly told by the director of the competing software distributer (AutoDesk) that these seminars were the turning point for many of his clients to step up from 2D to 3D.

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

DebunkTheBIM

I documented full houses in 3D ArchiCAD 20 years ago in our design studio, while she looked after our children. Rather than ‘forcing’ people through BIM training, modelling courses, even just theoretical seminars, I’d love to see them ‘just’ go paperfree. I ‘drew’ the first axo chair in AutoCAD 25 years ago and showed it to her.

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

Building Information Management

This has included “CAD” using PEAC, GDS, MicroGDS, AutoCAD, MicroStation, SketchUp, ArchiCAD and “Raster” using Cadcore/Hitachi PrEditor, ScanGraphics, Scan2CAD, etc. He has presented over 70 keynote and invited lectures and several other papers in international seminars and conferences around the world since 1996.

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

Building Information Management

This has included “CAD” using PEAC, GDS, MicroGDS, AutoCAD, MicroStation, SketchUp, ArchiCAD and “Raster” using Cadcore/Hitachi PrEditor, ScanGraphics, Scan2CAD, etc. He has presented over 70 keynote and invited lectures and several other papers in international seminars and conferences around the world since 1996.

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