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DebunkTheBIM: Whatever floats your boat? Google Sketchup is no.

DebunkTheBIM

Whatever floats your boat… Google Sketchup is no more. Never-mind, that Autodesk never managed to come even close to it and never-mind that even though Google acquired SketchUP for their dream to achieve the same, had failed, here comes another ignorant- giant, falling into the same trap. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook.

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DebunkTheBIM: I stand corrected: 'clash detection is not a con!'

DebunkTheBIM

It is a way of legitimising half-baked designs, badly documented in unnecessarily inflated mounds of documents. Clash detection has its place – as an auditing system, a safety net, a value-engineering tool, a refining instrument. ’ Whatever floats your boat… Google Sketchup is no m. at 2:35 AM.

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

Building Information Management

Tom Gay manages worldwide CAD and GIS services, site plan documentation and engineering document management services for The Factory Mutual Insurance Company (FM Global). This has included “CAD” using PEAC, GDS, MicroGDS, AutoCAD, MicroStation, SketchUp, ArchiCAD and “Raster” using Cadcore/Hitachi PrEditor, ScanGraphics, Scan2CAD, etc.

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

Building Information Management

Tom Gay manages worldwide CAD and GIS services, site plan documentation and engineering document management services for The Factory Mutual Insurance Company (FM Global). This has included “CAD” using PEAC, GDS, MicroGDS, AutoCAD, MicroStation, SketchUp, ArchiCAD and “Raster” using Cadcore/Hitachi PrEditor, ScanGraphics, Scan2CAD, etc.

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