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“I just don’t really understand what’s the point using this?”

DebunkTheBIM

This little-battle is between Archicad and me – I repeatedly ignore the creators’ hints to use the product in-a-certain-way and force it ‘kicking and screaming’ to perform tasks I dream-up.

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Purpose (designed and) built for Architects

DebunkTheBIM

I started learning technical drafting on my father’s drawing machine, the type with two rulers fixed at right angle to each other but adjustable to any angle through a button. (he Ten years ago I amazed the local Archicad supplier by a colourful CV fully prepared on Plotmaker. It was totally inappropriate.

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Another example why it is better to stay out of BIM surveys…

DebunkTheBIM

Autodesk products are conveniently bundled together – not so ArchiCAD and Vectorworks (owned by the same company: Nemetschek). However the high number using ArchiCAD reflects the strong hold this company holds over the architect and architectural designer market (81% of respondents). Then, look at the chart itself!

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Do you want to get more specified? A practical post to building material manufacturers;

DebunkTheBIM

Revit, Archicad, Microstation); Include: · Intelligent , branded North-Point and a level marker · Min 10 wall types typically used by the type of construction you are most active in; · Intelligent keys and legend stamps of those walls; Also, Have their 2D representation clean and tidy; Printing without hitches on most printers/plotters.

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2D CAD sucks

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We should've stuck with pen & paper until a tool like Revit or Archicad or Tri-Forma came along. At least when we were drafting on paper (or whatever) a person really thought about what it was they were going to represent when that line was drawn, because no one wanted to redraw.

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BIM Objects, Data, and Information – More than a 3D Pretty Picture – Soooo Much More!

Building Information Management

At present, the NBS National BIM Library objects are classified using both the draft Uniclass 2 Work result code and the System name to give a deeper link between the object and specification. Figure 3: Connection to a wider source of information empowers the object. cubicle, partition, door and signage systems).

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Isn’t someone missing here? (What is my problem with Autodesk?)

DebunkTheBIM

Even if I consider the vastly superior ArchiCAD and the Bentley/Microstation range, all the more so Tekla and everything Trimble had collected over the last year or two - these tools, all together are still ‘so last century’. I had my first training in Revit in 2004 and get around it OK. Although, it is.