The next editions for BIM programs in English, Spanish and Portuguese will be certified by Canada BIM Council. Our academic partners: BIM Freelance, BIM Academy and NossoBIM have all qualified for their programs to be certified with the corresponding program levels officially certificated by CanBIM. The Global BIM Management Certification Program has achieved the CanBIM Educational Level 3.0, which is …

Building information modeling (BIM) might become compulsory since the year 2019 at Russia’s construction sites commissioned by the government. This is what the Head of Russian Ministry of Construction, Housing and Utilities, Mikhail Menn told reporters on Wednesday at PROEstate international investment forum in Moscow, according Russian online Journal. According to him, the Ministry will take into account interesting British experience …

BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) BIM Collaboration Format (BCF) is an open standard format officially endorsed by buildingSMART. BCF is used by many structural, MEP and model checker programs to add comments, screenshots, camera position and 3D cutting planes to IFC models. BCF-based data exchange is particularly suited for identifying overlaps (e.g. collisions, modeling and other mistakes) when several models from …

In the digital world, patterns or standards allow people to create, use and keep information in a very organized way. The standards not only lead to better practices but also offer means to obtain and measures improvements. Changing information about design, construction, models, specifications, and spreadsheets in a consistent and consensual way can reduce costs and waste. In order to …

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Vectorworks 2017 has a great feature: importing Revit files Architects and landscape professionals must be prepared to exchange data with other BIM collaborators. In Vectorworks software, you can now import Revit files directly, allowing you to take advantage of manufacturer-specific objects that are available as Revit families to enhance a Vectorworks library or to collaborate more effectively with other designers …

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Open BIM is a concept adopted by many software companies in order to have full collaboration. This post will exemplify a bidirectional integration between Solibri and Archicad that makes the project process easier and more collaborative and productive.   An add-on integrates Solibri Model Checker and ArchiCAD directly. The building model is transferred from ArchiCAD to Solibri Model Checker with …

The previous article MODEL COMPARISON – SOL/206 provides a detailed introductory explanation on how to compare two versions of a model. In this article, we focus on tips to partition model comparison checks into more granular pieces, namely results of what components have been added/removed and how they have been modified in terms of their identifiers, quantities, locations, and property …

To conduct a quick model comparison in Solibri Model Checker (without customization), use the ruleset titled “Model Revisions Comparison.” Solibri Model Checker contains 3 version of this ruleset, one for Architectural, one for Structural, and one for MEP models. To get started, a user must load two versions of the same IFC model, for example, the previous version first, and …