Monday, May 28, 2012

A note on software

There are an array of choices when it comes to BIM software. BIM is as much a process as it is anything else, no one piece of software embodies BIM.

Revit, ArchiCAD, Bentley, Allplan and others all have their strengths and weaknesses as BIM implementation tools. As you can tell from the title of this blog I will be focusing primarily on Revit and software and processes that interface with Revit.

The reasons for the focus on Revit are simple. While Revit is obviously not the only product out there and is not as market dominating of BIM as AutoCAD is of CAD, it is the dominant software in the market, which is why our firm uses Revit as opposed to some of the other products.

So the BIM conversation will commonly be couched in general terms, but when I discuss specific details of software, it will be in terms of Autodesk Revit's latest release.

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