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First four successes for buildingSMART’s Certification 2.0

March 26, 2013

News Release 22 March 2013 First four successes for buildingSMART’s Certification 2.0 New stringent process provides quality assurance The first four products to receive the new-style buildingSMART certification 2.0 were recognised at the international meetings of buildingSMART in Waltham, MA, US on 12 March 2013. The certification acknowledges that the products have been tested and shown to comply with the IFC open standards for the functions specified within the testing

GRAPHISOFT Releases Feature Upgrade to BIMx Mobile

March 18, 2013

Jared’s note: I really like that Graphisoft keeps adding little improvements to BIMx through out the year. The last update that gave usÂ the ability to “Limit navigation to gallery views” was less than 6 months ago. Well here’s the latest. I did a quick test of the new features and WOW. I mean damn. The Real-time 3D Cutaway function is crazy fast and beautiful (at least on my iPad Mini).

Interested in statistics on BIM engagement and usage?

March 17, 2013

Happy Sunday. Day 17. Post 17. I won’t make a full month where the total number of posts equals the total number of days in the month. Especially not this month. Soon I’ll be heading to Wyoming for a few days, to the land of horrible internet connections and a house with no Wi-Fi… That many posts is a horrible goal anyways. It’s just about numbers, not content. Fortunately there’s

BIM Server Scare

March 11, 2013

It was like we’d just saved the world from a nuclear holocaust. But we couldn’t tell anyone because it wasn’t rogue KGB operatives still disgruntled from the end of the Cold War or Kim Jong Un and his lackeys with their fingers on the button. It was aliens from another dimension. And if we tried to explain that everything was alright, the citizens of the world would just freak out

Someone’s comparing ArchiCAD to Revit and you should pay attention

March 5, 2013

Why should you be paying attention? Because of the WHO doing the comparing. Scott Mackenzie, BIM Manager at Stantec, is doing his own head-to-head comparison based on his extensive personal experience. The first post definitely reads as if it’s being written more for himself than for us. Which is awesome and very interesting. I hope he keeps it up and ignores any comments that disagree with his assessment. There’ll be time

I was going to write a post about LOD

March 5, 2013

Level of Development or Level of Detail (depending on how you define LOD) is a super fascinating concept. And ultra-critical to functioning intelligently in BIM. It’s not a be-all, end-all answer to success in BIM, but an awareness of the development and certainty of the information in BIM greatly benefits communication. And Communication is at the heart of good collaboration (foreshadowing). Instead of me writing more tonight, I’ll stop and

Think you can’t construct with ArchiCAD? Meet Mota-Engil

March 4, 2013

This looks like a really interesting webinar. Regardless of what BIM authoring tool you use, it’s always very interesting (and enlightening) to see how contractors are employing BIM. It just so happens that this construction firm, after searching long and hard, ended up choosing ArchiCAD. I’m looking forward to seeing how and why. This construction-specific online seminar will highlight how implementing BIM leads to numerous benefits for construction companies, including:

No Hollywood BIM

February 18, 2013

GRAPHISOFT North America and Trimble Vico Wednesday, February 27, 2013 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM (PST) Los Angeles, CA Movie stars, fast cars, and cocktails by the pool. Â That’s what people imagine when you say the word Hollywood. Â When you say Hollywood to a general contractor or architect, the first thing that pops to mind is “Hollywood BIM” and the firms who try to woo owners with spinning models

What’s (BIM) Life Without a Challenge?

February 7, 2013

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

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