Four Hypermodel videos are on Bentley's YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xAfZEK7hrY&context=C3659722ADOEgsToPDskJtsThIZxjLPm_r7ZYWQpni http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZptfxZfyWfc&context=C3a8b769ADOEgsToPDskIJHvspA8uxXOYZQEVVa_iM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqLDk8gO1Yw&context=C3ee320bADOEgsToPDskLM3cDSEF5I798PyyloUG2I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYUHMT-gTR8&context=C35915f2ADOEgsToPDskJh-_ac9f0U0X7Mseu3rMVO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q42DrHZl_I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Brh3mP7alWg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K_nQGptF84 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_UldNIg2KQ “describe BIM in 10 words (or less)”. I think you can describe it accurately by looking at what it delivers. Take as given the things that are said about work process (BIM process change), and look, for the moment, at the delivered result of the use of BIM tools. The...

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/07/15/google_memory_change_columbia_science_magazine_recent_study_reve.html “Perhaps those who learn will become less occupied with facts and more engaged in larger questions of understanding,” she said. This makes me wonder. (period; intentional end)

Students don't care, anymore, really, about modeling (with or without "properties") or drafting tools. They are all (nearly) commodities. Students care (as they should) about "representation". The same is true for professionals. In the world today, representation media, both drawing documents, and models, are deficient, not adequately fulfilling their intended purpose (communication). This is what motivated me, as a long time...

I think the concept changes somewhat now. Our goal is no longer (I used to share that goal too) Construction without Drawings. It is now construction through rich communication media that puts the essential remarks and graphics of the drawings INTO the 3D model where they are easier to understand more thoroughly than as stand alone drawings, and where the model is clarified as required by these drawings (which ARE intended as clarification). Drawings...

Hypermodeling Steel is the one discipline that can come very close to total completion of a 3D model, but even there, such totally complete 3D models benefit from the clarifications that come from hypermodeling the project’s structural document set INTO the 3D model, so that what was said in the drawing documents about specific locations in the steel can now be seen in-place in the 3D model, automatically, on demand. In other disciplines, like...

One can assume I think fairly that if one invests in new tools, new equipment, new workflows, that one ought to receive in return some tangible value for having done so, something substantially more than just "my drawings are (somewhat) better coordinated." It occurred to me after 10 years of driving documents from models myself that something’s not right, that it’s not enough. Fact: In a project’s documents, we say the...

Hypermodeling infuses the project’s documentation into the 3D model , automatically. After using BIM for 10 years myself I noticed it goes only half way (or less). To automate documents is one thing, but this does nothing at all, really, to improve the communicative effectiveness of documentation, the purpose of which is - to communicate effectively. It's about the medium of communication itself, which needs improvement. This is achieved...

Hypermodeling infuses the project’s documentation into the 3D model , automatically. After Silent Film

Hypermodeling infuses the project’s documentation into the 3D model , automatically. After using BIM for 10 years myself I noticed it goes only half way (or less). To automate documents is one thing, but this does nothing at all, really, to improve the communicative effectiveness of documentation, the purpose of which is - to communicate effectively. It's about the medium of communication itself, which needs improvement. This is achieved...

simple instructions: 1. place a callout symbol on a drawing document or in a 3D model. Name the callout, in the subsequent dialog box. 2. Drag and drop the named callout from the project explorer list onto a drawing document to express the drawing (to display that view of the project model on the document). 3. Add drawing detail as required along with notes, dimensions and any other vector or raster embellishments as desired, to the document. 4. the...

A Hypermodel infuses the project’s documentation into the 3D model , automatically. http://bentley.wmod.llnwd.net/a3822/o9/s/BentleyStream/Platform/2011_ CHINA_HYDRO _BENTLEY_HYPERMODEL_8_11.wmv?h=3e82cee558bb4b3330dc1c774e1e5bbd NEW VIDEO http://bentley.wmod.llnwd.net/a3822/o9/s/BentleyStream/Platform/ hypermodel01 _8_11.wmv?h=37aef418f65da82a847eae989d5b7f3c The 3D model is infused on demand, automatically and comprehensively, with the clarifying...

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http://www.bentley.com/bentleywebsite/files/streaming_media/verticals/Building/V8i-Dynamic-Views-and-Interoperability-1024.asx

New Year, New Era? By Carlos Fuentes - published on the opinion page of the Mexico City Newspaper "Reforma" Monday December 31, 2007 - translated from the Spanish by Rob Snyder and Margarita Lado Contreras It's in the air. It's in our heads. We all intuit it. One epoch ends. Another, new, begins. Juan Jose Bremer tells of foundational moments of modernity. The Peace of Westfalia (1648) put an end to the wars of religion, consecrated the...