BIM 3D (4D/5D)

Mark Evers
Mark Evers
in BricsCAD BIM
I was under the impression that the whole point of BIM is being able to:
  • coordinate the design process in a smart way, connecting various discplines (architect, structural engineer, MEP, contractors) by using a single BIM model (3D)
  • creating a time frame for the overall project in order to help giving an estimation of completion of a project and control various stages of development(4D)
  • providing tools for cost-estimations and managing this process (5D)
the 3D part is the most important in my case, but for large projects with a lot of disciplines involved the 4D and 5D aspects are crucial. It's unclear to me in what way Bricscad provides tools for these processes. You don't provide lot of information on your website about the BIM part of Bricscad, I hope that's on it's way, because I think that's critical for the reception of your product.

Will Bricscad be able to connect to libraries with parametric objects?

Comments

  • Daniel Eiszele
    Daniel Eiszele
  • Mark Evers
    Mark Evers
    I hadn't read the second blog. So the current state seems more like a beta state, since vital functionality is on it's way. But I'm interested so I try to follow the development.
    Maybe bricsys could provide some more information on the development themselves.
  • Roy Klein Gebbinck
    Roy Klein Gebbinck
    I am by no means a BIM specialist, but the current state of BIM seems to be that each discipline uses its own model and the IFC format is used for data exchange. This exchange can be problematic and often results in the loss of (parametric) intelligence. It is surprising that Mark doesn't mention 2D. Without the ability to create good 2D plans (1:100 - 1:5) from a 3D model, BIM would be useless.

  • Mark Evers
    Mark Evers
    You are absolutely right on the 2D part.
    At the moment I'm working completely in 2D in ACAD LT. It's quite labour intense and I would like to work in 3D. One of the things i'm wondering about is the level of control on creating depth in for example an elevation. In 2D I just use a different lineweight or color (gray). But I don't know if and how it's possible to do so in a 3D model and then create an elevation with the illusion of depth.
  • Roy Klein Gebbinck
    Roy Klein Gebbinck
    @ Mark:
    I am trying out BricsCAD BIM myself and I have dozens of similar questions.
    Your problem is easy enough to solve if you never mirror the window. If you do want to mirror the window things will get more complex, since BricsCAD components do not support visibility settings as far as I know.
  • Stefaan Coddé
    Stefaan Coddé
    The idea behind BIM is certainly not new. many attempts are made but Autodesk came with Mep and Revit
    so there are far more attempts needed to come to it's original goal, reduce development time between alle participants on a building project.

    So the road map would be: Architect uses Revit, draws the 3D, Sanitary , Electrical etc receives the 3D.
    they start to draw their data but ate then end of the day, drawings are synchronized  so that all who are participating on the project can interact
    if a problem is visible.

    BIM design protocol should not be part of a cad software company and if so, this company should give out alle information to other cad software companies and so on.

    Between 1992 and now 2014 not so much progress tho.

    BIM up to 6D

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