BIM Positions

A good article regarding potential future BIM positions in companies was posted to AEC Bytes. This lists chief BIM officers and model managers as core roles in future companies.

BIM, is it prototyping or documentation?

There seems to be a fundamental challenge in the conflicting goals of the development of virtual prototypes (which are developed for design and decision making), and final virtual models which are developed for documentation of design decisions. The challenge is to identify the appropriate time to move from prototypes to digital model. Any potential information reuse between the prototyping process and the digital model can be valuable, particularly if it makes the prototyping process more efficient.

Innovaya

The Innovaya training last Friday illustrated some of the capabilities and unique characteristics of the software. Innovaya allows you to easily publish a Revit model to an inv file, which can be used in the estimating and scheduling software. It is relatively easy to then use the file to develop quantities and tie them to assemblies within Timberline. This is definitely not an automated process (unless you would revise the families in Revit), but it is definitely easy to use the visual estimator to make sure that you takeoff and estimate the entire project.

The 4D modeling application has some unique characteristics including the viewing of a CPM schedule in MS Project while viewing the 4D model, and the use of different rules to illustrate color of objects. It also allows for the use of Revit phasing for the automated generation of a phasing model in 4D.