How to get Solibri Model Viewer working on 64bit Ubuntu
As a Ubuntu user I’m not spoiled with good IFC viewers. To be honest there are hardly anyone out there. One decent alternative is the Solibri Model Viewer downloadable from here: http://www.solibri.com/solibri-model-viewer.html For a long time I was using the viewer happily on my 32 bit notebook but when I upgradet to a 64bit version of Ubuntu, the joy was suddenly over. I could no longer get the viewer to start. It stopped with the message “Unable to launch the application”. After a bit of fiddling with various Java...
read moreAutodesk University Las Vegas
Autodesk University (AU) in Las Vegas started officially today. It is held in The Venetian, an enormous building complex, interesting in itself seen from a buildingSMART point of view. They even have canals INSIDE the hotel. It will be interesting to see how AU will use this opportunity to talk about buildingSMART, if at...
read morebuildingSMART Live!
Over 10 software applications on stage at the same time show how they use buildingSMART technology on a real project. No cheating. No slides. Real stuff. That works. It is true. We got to show the way to the (near) future, through our very own Detail-Search. Which is based on IFD and feature complete due to great efforts from Dag Diesen, Dag F. Edvardsen, Jan Erik Askjellrud and Lars Bjørkhaug. Content in the application is not yet fully complete, but underway. This is a milestone we are very proud of. Later today we will demonstrate this...
read moreSKANSKA and BIM usage
At the steering group meeting for the buildingSMART Norway Project, at SKANSKA’s headquarter in Stockholm, Ilkka Romo showed an impressive range of prosseses where SKANSKA is utilizing the advatages of BIM. It ranged from compressed scheduling of production, better cost control, better visual marketing and element libraries. The hope is that this will only increase the use of open international standards, like the buildingSMART standards, not closed proprietary solutions, as this will benefit SKANSKA the most in the long term. Ilkka Romo...
read moreA BIM Storm, now in Los Angeles
Onuma Inc, is an architecture/services company, staffed with architects and computer engineers. Their mission is to revolutionize architecture. And they seem to be doing a good job, so far. A BIM Storm is a great idea, where some of the real potential of BIM and buildingSMART technology becomes obvious to many interested parties at the same time. Over a 24 hour period, they will on January 31st, design 30 city blocks of Los Angeles, totaling 30 million square feet. This will all be done in real time! What I would like to see a stronger focus...
read moreVideo Trace: How to model quickly from video
This is not necessarily new, but nevertheless very interesting. By doing a simple clip, with a consumer grade hand held video camera, filming a car while walking by it, and then using a tool to simply and quickly generating a model of the car from the video clip, many opportunities opens up. Australian researches has accomplished this, and you can read more on the following site and watch a demonstration video: http://www.acvt.com.au/research/videotrace/. In 2002 I bought a navigation system for my car in Tokyo, this had a 3D rendering of...
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