BIM technology: an example of practical interdisciplinary interaction
The article " Analysis of the current situation in the Russian BIM-market in the field of civil engineering ", published in our blog in early February, caused quite a wide response in the specialized CAD system and even won several republishments, under which, over the course of several weeks, there was a huge amount of comments from people interested in CAD-themed. If you remove emotions from them (and they were completely different in color), then many of the requests concerned a practical demonstration of the design possibilities using BIM solutions from various vendors ...
Indeed, the topic is very relevant: interesting BIM solutions appear from an increasing number of CAD developers, the quality of projects implemented using BIM technology is noticeably higher than traditional ones, officials take initiatives to popularize BIM technologies, IT technologies develop and allow you to create more and more complex models (for example, how can you go about construction with a tablet with augmented reality?). To some extent, the time is now coming for new principles of design and construction. But if earlier the technology of information modeling affected certain specialties, now many developers of BIM systems are taking the initiative to open interdisciplinary interaction, which allows linking independent software products and building a BIM process, tailored to the tasks and capabilities of project organizations of almost any type. The concept bears the marketing name OpenBIM and is contrasted with BIM design based on proprietary proprietary formats.
But is it possible to set up a BIM process based on open formats and, if so, where to start? How to move from a beautiful theory to practice? We tried to answer these questions in an online lecture last week. At the event, considering the theory, we gave an example of practical interaction between two BIM solutions: the Hungarian software product for architectural design ARCHICAD and the Russian engineering solution nanoCAD Electro for the design of the electrical engineering part of the building. ')
The material is strongly recommended for those interested in information modeling (BIM technology) and news from the world of CAD.