presenting drawings in models

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q42DrHZl_I

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 delivered result of BIM tools (and process) is:

 

A.   A stack of drawing documents (plus some other documents). The drawing documents are no better at their intended purpose (communication) than any documents ever have been, although yes perhaps these are somewhat better coordinated than they otherwise may have been.

 

B.   A 3D model that can be used for some specialty purposes (visualization, clashes, sequence animation, analyses..) but that otherwise is practically useless as a means of communication, as starkly demonstrated every time it is discarded as the project moves from design to delivery.

 

 

That B (a 3D model) automates some of A (drawings) is (always moving further toward the lighter side of) moderately interesting, but only from a purely technological perspective, because with regard to practical results, the automation of A from B does nothing to improve the communicative effectiveness of either A or B (communicative effectiveness is the primary purpose of drawing and modeling).

 

 

For something new (the reverse), automatically presenting all the drawing graphics (A) in the 3D models (B), please see the videos.

 

When you put the drawings in the models, both the drawings and the models are improved (as communication media) in rather obvious and practical ways:

 

  • The drawings are more thoroughly understood, more easily, more clearly.

 

  • The models are (for the first time) clear about the locations at which accountable statements are made, and what those statements are – the model is no longer speechless and ambiguous. The model speaks, and what it says is precisely what was said in the document set. As the model now for the first time makes clear the difference between locations that are reliable (and about which accountable statements have been made) and all other locations (that deliver context but that may not be reliable), the model may now serve as a reliable, accountable communication medium and need no longer be discarded as a matter of course as a project moves from design to construction or into operations.

 

 

STREAMING VIDEO:

 

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

 

http://bentley.wmod.llnwd.net/a3822/o9/s/BentleyStream/Platform/Hypermodel_iPub_8_11.wmv?h=de5b646b5e8f00bf37100b0124f05d13

 

http://bentley.wmod.llnwd.net/a3822/o9/s/BentleyStream/Platform/Hypermodel02_8_11.wmv?h=52845d8dc804a1ed3016d436d9b267a8

 

http://bentley.wmod.llnwd.net/a3822/o9/s/BentleyStream/Platform/Hypermodel03campuscity_8_11.wmv?h=f94788548f934cf292ef2a709105b8c3

 

http://bentley.wmod.llnwd.net/a3822/o9/s/BentleyStream/Platform/Hypermodel04bridgeroad_8_11.wmv?h=06d8063c3d975bfd1fbadcd0cd0527ed

 

http://bentley.wmod.llnwd.net/a3822/o9/s/BentleyStream/Platform/06Mar2010_8_11.wmv?h=65d2bf190f599693270e473677432d35

 

http://bentley.wmod.llnwd.net/a3822/o9/s/BentleyStream/Platform/2011_Model_Index_8_11.wmv?h=b0ccdaf56e1d65616c4deee181574791

 

 

 

 

 

Hypermodeling blog article (1)

 

 

 

 \rob snyder

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gain insight by putting things in plain sight.

 

 

A Hypermodel infuses the project’s documentation into the 3D model, automatically.

 

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  • BIM is a pretty broad church. Everyone is tacking on thier own spin to the BIM paradigm. I think you are correct when you point out that delivery is a good way of measuring what BIM does. But delivery of what to whom?

    What is the intended means of delivery in this new world of hypermodeling? The advantage of the 2D in context of; and thereby informing the 3D is pretty obvious. 2D may be an abstracted view of the 3D - but it is easy to deliver to the builder on site. Should I be investing in shares of toughened tablet devices?

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  • BIM is a pretty broad church. Everyone is tacking on thier own spin to the BIM paradigm. I think you are correct when you point out that delivery is a good way of measuring what BIM does. But delivery of what to whom?

    What is the intended means of delivery in this new world of hypermodeling? The advantage of the 2D in context of; and thereby informing the 3D is pretty obvious. 2D may be an abstracted view of the 3D - but it is easy to deliver to the builder on site. Should I be investing in shares of toughened tablet devices?

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