What’s (BIM) Life Without a Challenge?
There is constant, never ending talk concerning the whole Revit vs ArchiCAD debate. In years past there have been CAD shootouts, though it’s been long enough since the last one that they might as well have never happened. But there’s really no current data on how these major BIM platforms compare. And isn’t that what all of us BIMnerds are about? Gathering data and turning it into functional Information?
A Challenge
The Revit Fact Check | BIM Fact Check blog posted an interesting challenge that aims at comparing Revit, Rhino, and ArchiCAD. Read the details here.
The logistics seem a bit daunting, but I love the idea. Right now the challenge is in the organizational phase. There’s a Revit team in place (though they’d be happy to have more people help) and now they are looking for an ArchiCAD team. Once the teams are coalescing, they’ll start defining the rules, tests, and sharing requirements.
Who’s interested?
My hope is that we all learn something about all the programs involved and get a little closer to understanding what a BIM application needs to provide to make us better architects. Who knows, maybe we’ll discover that all the programs are lacking because there’s some central concept that they all fail at in different ways. Maybe?
If you’re up for a challenge, leave a comment here or over at Jay’s blog. Let’s all take a step into the abyss and risk learning something we weren’t expecting.
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Want some more of my thoughts on the whole Revit vs ArchiCAD debate? Here you go. And remember, let’s be Yo Gabba Gabba and not Dora the Explorer.
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Bradley
I’m up for the challenge!
Jared Banks
Awesome. I’ll pass your info along.
Nando
I’m up for it. By the way, I’m a double agent – I use both (advance-expert level).
Though I’m biased towards ArchiCAD I already have projects / tests running the same project in both platforms.
Jared, I’d like to join this enterprise. Let me know how can I help.
Jared Banks
Awesome! Double Agents are the best and probably most useful for this challenge. I’ll introduce you to everyone else involved.
Erhard
Great idea! It would be best to have all teams compete with the same project – let’s say a complete set of design development drawings, 2 renderings of exterior and interior, a door/window schedule, an energy consumption evaluation etc etca based on a given 10 x 10 x 10 cube. I used to challenge my students with a task like that…….
Jared Banks
Agreed. Before this challenge tries to tackle the complexities of a huge multi-person project, it seems like it needs to focus on the small stuff. I like the idea of a simple volume. The equivalent of the rendering ball or cube for materials. The essentials.
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Morten Graven Bilde
Hi Jared
I’m in for the ArchiCAD team.
Has been using AC since 2007 – consider my self to be at expert level.
Lets try to have IFC colaboration as a competetive parameter
Jared Banks
Fantastic. I’ll pass along your info. And yes I think collaboration via IFC is a very, very important piece of the puzzle. Thanks for offering to join in!