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RE: Hypermodeling videos on Bentley YouTube Channel

Otelia Hunaida — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:33:30 GMT

Immediately I remembered working on my old laptop in Archicad and trying to make a plan of a one-story house. I almost managed to complete this task as suddenly the whole system went down. It turned out that the motherboard and graphics card just couldn't take the strain. But if you manage to work in the program and at the same time to broadcast (to start recording this screen while continuing to work), then I want to wish you a prosperous channel and more subscribers. I know that they can already be found on https://famoid.com/buy-real-youtube-views/, as well as views, but still... good luck with the projections

RE: Hypermodeling videos on Bentley YouTube Channel

Ray Coco — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 15:10:55 GMT

How it all works at these load volumes

RE: Hypermodeling

cathy lister — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 13:53:02 GMT

Windshield repair

We have excellent ideas here.

RE: Intelligible Information Environments

fostertom — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 17:41:45 GMT

This is stupendous communities.bentley.com/.../91783.aspx Rob Snyder for Bentley hero?

Dynamic cut plane to view 2D lintol detail at any point is great, but simplistic - the 3D lintol/jamb junction detail at the corner of the opening is where the questions really arise. if you could invent an equally instant way to view that in 3D, peeling away layers at will to look within, then we'd be home and dry.

RE: Construction without Drawings (old-school new-school)

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:30:09 GMT

Nice idea. The hypermodel links appear to be broken.

RE: A frontier in visual communication

Rob Snyder — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:33:12 GMT

The blog post above includes:

- - background discussion of visual media describing essential characteristics of drawings and models (as media)

- - an introduction of new forms of combinant environmental media that keep intact within them the provision for the authored directive visual statement

- - links to research developments extending the concept further

Any evaluation of modeling should now include an assessment of what modeling can do for the clarity of documentation. Abstraction is a significant problem. Construction firms often report that deciphering the meaning of abstract drawings represents a very large amount of time, and some even say it is their firm’s greatest challenge. Interpretation no longer need be as difficult:

A new kind of project documentation (please see the blog post above) did not exist before 2012, and is only available from Bentley. It makes it easier for you to create documentation that is clear and understandable. It makes it easier for you to see what you are doing, understand what you are designing, and control the scope and completion status of your drawings and models. Likewise it makes those drawings and models more useful for construction firms. Now they can more easily, correctly, and thoroughly interpret and understand your visual communications. It saves you time and money, and it saves them time and money.

Deliver drawings in models instead of either one alone. If you were in the movie making business you would want to author and deliver movies with sound and picture integrated and synchronized. Do the same now with drawings and models, and enrich both media.

RE: A frontier in visual communication

Rob Snyder — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 20:06:28 GMT

John, Thank you. we have this page www.bentley.com/.../hypermodels As case studies become available we will post them.

RE: A frontier in visual communication

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Sep 2012 19:58:36 GMT

This is great stuff, especially for renovation projects, have you a similar writeup on Crossrail or the China hydro plant?

RE: understanding

Robert Jones — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 22:16:04 GMT

I remember overhearing a conversation as a kid, many moons ago, that airline pilots were tested on thier flight theory with an open book approach. ie. they didn't have to memorise the entire operational flight manual, but had to know where to look in that manual to find the info they needed. I thought this was a brilliant idea, but always wondered how long they had to look up how to troubleshoot stalled engines when the airplane was in freefall.

Now it seems keeping information externally from our brains has become a way of life. We might lose ownship of our own bit info as we publish it, but gain access to everyone else's info in the process.

Search engines are making even the limited requirment to remember where something is stored obsolete, but also necessary as we humans pool more and more of our information.

This should be a call out to Benltey's development team - If the same process of pooling building infomation (BIM) means mentally losing track of where that info resides, we need a robust search engine that can find / crossrefernce info for us at least as intuitvly as Google can find images of "robot sheep" or whatever else I choose to search for.

RE: presenting drawings in models

Rob Snyder — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:22:48 GMT

Adding to what Robert Jones asked, "...But delivery of what to whom?"...

We design our communications, in the media available to us (drawings and models).

Now we have an additional medium with which to design our communications. The hypermodel is a richer medium, the combinant of 2 others (and more to come).

We (industry users) are going to be designing our project communications in this medium, as we did with the prior media.

What interests me is that this is the start of precisely the question that Robert Jones asks.

RE: presenting drawings in models

Rob Snyder — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 03:12:00 GMT

Robert, and Jim, yes - notice that because [hypermodel = (drawings in the model)], that a hypermodel does not exist if drawings do not exist.

Therefore, drawings continue to exist as before, and can continue to be printed on paper and delivered in the usual ways. Now there is an additional way to deliver them and view them.

For the jobsite the hypermodel is published to an i-model. That single file is viewable and navigable in free viewers like Bentley View, or the iWare plugin for Windows Explorer, or in a browser, or in a review app like Navigator. Everything you see in these videos works there.

In the job trailer one can use any of these viewers to view and understand the portions of the model (clarified by drawings in place in the model) on which they will work on that day. At any orientation these can be printed as needed, or, the drawings can be printed as usual.

Likewise a tablet device can be carried around where practical.

RE: presenting drawings in models

Robert Jones — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 01:10:59 GMT

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?

RE: presenting drawings in models

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:07:33 GMT

bim is or is not the problem its getting the design community to learn use and intergrate into the design process.

RE: presenting drawings in models

Rob Snyder — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:58:06 GMT

Please observe the parallel: this [making clear the difference between locations that are reliable (and about which accountable statements are made) and all other locations] is precisely the primary function of any stack of conventional construction drawings.

In a stack of construction drawings, the locations (physical locations in a project) about which accountable statements are made are quite simply the locations that (purposefully) are selected for inclusion in the drawing document set. They are the locations that are drawn (automated or not). All other locations (those that are not drawn) are simply omitted from the document set. So in a document set, the distinction is very clear (a location is either in the set or it is not).

The equivalent clarity is now present in the 3D model.

Note that both the explicit and implied meanings of drawings are carried forward, in the drawing set as before (as always) and now in the 3D model.

The idea of putting these together is only the beginning of something qualitatively different and useful.

RE: Hypermodeling

Rob Snyder — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:07:19 GMT

You should identify yourself, Ant. Particularly when issuing challenges.