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:
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)
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gain insight by putting things in plain sight.
A Hypermodel infuses the project’s documentation into the 3D model, automatically.
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?