BIM REVIEW

Smart Geometry 2011. Copenhagen, Denmark, 28th March – 2nd April 2011- Review

The Smart Geometry (SG) is the biggest conference about parametric design and the latest developments in computational design worldwide. Since 2001 architects, engineers and programmers meet once a year in a different part of the world to practice, discuss and exchange the latest developments in the field of computational design. This year’s conference was hosted by CITA in Copenhagen, the Danish hub for computational design...

15th of April 2011

AutoDesk Revit Integration with Bentley Building

BIM experts Nigel Davies and Paul Woddy look at the exchange of BIM model data between two of the leading package suites, Autodesk Revit and the Bentley Building products.

8th of April 2011

LFRT BIM evaluation Study Report

This research report captures the results of the BIM evaluation study that was conducted by Lachmi Khemlani, Ph.D., founder and editor of AECbytes. It was commissioned by the AIA Large Firm Round Table (LFRT) CEO Committee to provide the LFRT firms with an in-depth comparative evaluation of the main architectural BIM applications that are available.

The study was conducted over a one-year period starting from June 2009 and ending in June 2010. The results are captured in a 163 page report that the AIA LFRT CEO Committee is now making available for purchase.

by AECbytes, 13th of December 2010

RevitArch2011 review

"A more detailed look at Revit Architecture 2011 and explore how much progress it has made since the 2010 release of the application that was reviewed in AECbytes last year."

by AECbytes, 26th of August 2010

Bentley Architecture V8i Review

Product Summary
Bentley Architecture V8i is Bentley’s BIM application for architectural design that is part of a large integrated multi-disciplinary set of building solutions for design, analysis, and collaboration, built on the new MicroStation V8i platform.

Pros: Inherits all the power and comprehensiveness of MicroStation's CAD platform in solid and surface modeling, documentation, rendering, and animation; federated database approach lends itself much more easily and efficiently to distributed work processes and large projects; new release includes better conceptual design and new space planning capabilities; views are now dynamic, ensuring better drawing coordination; new display styles allow high-quality presentation graphics to be easily created; native support of Rhino and SketchUp files with live links adds to long list of supported formats; new Luxology rendering engine allows high-end renderings and animations to be created within the application.

Cons: Continues to remain a very complex application with a steep learning curve; quality of the documentation is poor, making it even more difficult to learn the application; new dynamic views adds an additional layer of complexity with more constructs to set up and work with; distributed file structure makes project organization more difficult to set up and manage

by Lachmi Khemlani, 20th of November 2009

Bentley Architecture V8i review

"This review explores the new V8i version of Bentley Architecture to determine to what extent these promising concepts have actually been translated into tangible improvements for existing users and potential new ones."

by AECbytes, 19th of November 2009

Book of the Month: BIG BIM little bim

Finith A. Jernigan's "BIG BIM little bim" is available from the EatyourCAD bookshop. Nigel looks at whether it gives big or little value...

1st of February 2008

Gehry rewrites the rules of modelling

Gehry Technologies has launched the latest version of its BIM package based on Catia. Rebecca Haines-Gadd of Zaha Hadid Architects gives it the once-over...

by Rebecca Haines-Gadd, 19th of October 2007

Revit Architecture 2008

Revit Architecture 2008 is the renamed new version of Autodesk's BIM application for architectural design that integrates elements, views, and annotations into a single, coordinated building information model...

by Lachmi Khemlani, 27th of June 2007

Bentley BIM Summit Review

Nigel reviews the UK's Bentley BIM Summit and proposes you “jump in the pond and get your feet wet”.

1st of December 2005