buildingSMART 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 moreMVD vs IDM
A really important discussion is going on at the TIM meeting right now, trying to define the difference between MVD and IDM. It seems the academic definition is clear. But lots of different opinions on what we need and what we do not need. One thing everybody agrees on: We need a way for end users to describe exactly what information they need, and we need a way for implementers to understand this need in a way that enables them to implement the solution for the end users. The rest is probably just noise, or more correctly: A necessary...
read morebuildingSMART International ITM meeting underway
It’s happening right now, and the group is constantly trying to improve the end user experience.
read morebuildingSMART Forum in Tokyo
Wednesday April 23rd 2008, the Japan Chapter of buildingSMART International (former IAI), together with Japan Construction Information Center, gathered over 100 people representing the bulk of the AEC/FM industry in Japan, for a one day successful buildingSMART Forum. We were also there, presenting our work so far in Japanese. Google SketchUp can now speak IFD! Thanks to...
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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