Comments on: BIM Fundamentals Seminar for Structural Engineers http://aecbytes.com/blog/2007/10/18/bim-fundamentals-seminar-for-structural-engineers/ A forum for AECbytes readers Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:18:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: bruce march http://aecbytes.com/blog/2007/10/18/bim-fundamentals-seminar-for-structural-engineers/#comment-7626 Sat, 20 Oct 2007 21:16:24 +0000 http://aecbytes.com/blog/2007/10/18/bim-fundamentals-seminar-for-structural-engineers/#comment-7626 My biggest current concern as an architect using 3d software is a seeming lack of understanding & resulting disregard for compatability & consistency as software is developed & the next upgrade is marketed... Library objects, materials & even pen weights & fills seem to be difficult if not impossible in many cases to carry forward - undermining the notion that, once the intensive process of creating a 3d model is finished, that it can be even reused one year later without checking every single bit that might have been modified by some inventive programmer looking to 'improve' something under the hood... My biggest current concern as an architect using 3d software is a seeming lack of understanding & resulting disregard for compatability & consistency as software is developed & the next upgrade is marketed…

Library objects, materials & even pen weights & fills seem to be difficult if not impossible in many cases to carry forward - undermining the notion that, once the intensive process of creating a 3d model is finished, that it can be even reused one year later without checking every single bit that might have been modified by some inventive programmer looking to ‘improve’ something under the hood…

]]> by: Robert Lipman http://aecbytes.com/blog/2007/10/18/bim-fundamentals-seminar-for-structural-engineers/#comment-7574 Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:11:17 +0000 http://aecbytes.com/blog/2007/10/18/bim-fundamentals-seminar-for-structural-engineers/#comment-7574 With regards to BIM interoperability with CIS/2 and IFC, if you are interested in importing a CIS/2 file into a CAD package that only imports IFC files, then try the CIS/2 to IFC translator available by following the links at http://cic.nist.gov/vrml/cis2.html On this website there is also a lot of information about using CIS/2 and IFC for structural steel. With regards to BIM interoperability with CIS/2 and IFC, if you are interested in importing a CIS/2 file into a CAD package that only imports IFC files, then try the CIS/2 to IFC translator available by following the links at http://cic.nist.gov/vrml/cis2.html On this website there is also a lot of information about using CIS/2 and IFC for structural steel.

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