In the process of tutoring college students about Building Information Modeling (BIM), I am reminded how rapidly the design and construction education is changing. Thinking back just 6 and a half years ago when I graduated from college, I entered into the workforce with very little real CAD knowledge and no idea what BIM is. [...]
At SHP, our conversion to a building information modeling (BIM) process occurred in 2005. We completely converted all of our architects and engineers to the Revit platform in about ten months that year. The timetable we set for ourselves was unheard of and we knew it. However, by committing to the goal of getting 100% [...]
One my favorite quotes from the late Steve Jobs was from an Apple keynote a couple years ago. He said that “We’ve always tried to be at the intersection of technology and liberal arts, to be able to get the best of both, to make extremely advanced products from a technology point of view, but [...]
Yesterday I discussed the first two benefits to the new, improved Revit that ties disciplines together. Today I’ll talk about the third, which is a new direction. The final feature upgrade provides an interesting debate about blurring the lines of responsibility and centers around the new ability to create linked parts models. In the 2012 [...]
In late April, Autodesk released the 2013 versions of the their software. This included major releases for Revit, Navisworks, 3D Max, and AutoCAD. SHP has been Alpha and Beta testing the 2013 software since last December and we have found this latest release to be very exciting. This software update brings many changes to how [...]
