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This youtube recording http://youtu.be/kQPxPF-lf5I is a presentation of recent research work from Bentley’s Applied Research Group.

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Please see my new blog post: Goodbye LOD, Hello (again) location-specificity

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Industry needs to begin to consider the general condition of the relationship of drawings to models..

The general condition is:

• A model is an environment

• A “drawing” draws one’s attention toward a location of accountable reliability, within an environment.

These two simple statements make very clear that, conceptually, drawings and models are inseparable from each other; one does…

Where I’m from, trees bear fruit. A tree is an environment (a combinant environment by the way). Within that kind of environment are nodes at which things are combined and transformed in ways that make them specifically useful and close at hand. Such an environment is considered to be productive. tangerine tree

Models, as we have known them, are environments, and not particularly productive ones. That is changing…

A drawing defines a location of reliability within an environment, but it leaves out the environment. So it is insufficient. 

A model defines an environment, but omits designating locations of reliability. So it is insufficient. 

Either of these on its own, is no longer sufficient. Communication must be elevated and made clearer. The two must be combined, just as sound and film were combined in the 1920s. Jack Warner of Warner…

The blog post hereincludes:

• 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…

Visual media. Let’s talk about it.  In the design and construction professions we are familiar with the visual media commonly used: drawings and models. Of course we also understand that visual media extend beyond architecture, engineering, and construction. Recent innovations now appear to open a new frontier of potential significance not only in the design and construction professions, but also for visual communication…

I am happy to say that I am presenting on the following topic at the second annual Northwestern University Symposium on Technology for Design and Construction (August 15, 16, and 17, 2012)  http://techforconstruction.com/

“Hypermodeling”

Sometimes (or often) in human experience, familiarity with a thing tends to conceal what a thing really is, and what it may become. For that reason there can be significant…

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=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=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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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

• The 3D model is infused on demand, automatically and comprehensively, with the clarifying remarks and graphics of the project’s documentation, the very documentation with which the project team has exerted itself clarifying the project.

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