Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Future of BIM Parametric Models


I believe BIM will change a lot of the next 5 years. I would anticipate that it will be more user-friendly and have an interface like AutoCAD. As mentioned in G. Carpenter’s post, “In AutoCAD, when drawing a building frame with joists, minimal mouse movement is required; type “l” for line, move the mouse slightly to the right, type in the length of the line, click “enter”, repeat for all directions of the basic frame.  A line can be highlighted and repeated for joists or offset for a column.  I could see this becoming the norm for BIM with the ability to construct a basic "outline" of the structure and then change the "basic" objects in the outline to reflect the different sized pipes, columns, etc.  In this way, a whole building can easily be constructed from a couple of mouse movements.” I believe that if BIM was to become more like this than it would be easier for current designer to make the transition.  

Lastly, during our last class meeting my group discussed how there is a major communication problem between programs. Both G. Carpenter and W. Chunyi brought this up again in their posts for this week and I completely agree with them. If BIM is to become the next big thing then it needs to become more compatible with other programs that are already in use today. I really liked W. Chunyi’s idea of being able to scan the blueprints of old buildings that were design by AutoCAD and creating a dataset in BIM.

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