BIM had become the main communication vehicle for AEC. Yet it is a language that only a small percentage of the industry speaks.
Now, many in the industry will be quick to dispute the first
claim. After all, most construction contracts are still based on drawings and there
is a belief that ‘we build off drawings’.
Yet it is undisputable, that a large percentage of those
drawings are created in a model-based software.
For better or worse, most of building related data lives in model-based
environments.
And the majority of the stakeholders can only access this
data via PDFs or printed off drawings.
Curiously, many appear to be happy with this situation and
shun BIM in its entirety.
Or are happy to pass it onto the BIM doers, modellers, coordinators,
and managers.
Others are interested to know more, get hands-on a bit, peek
behind the curtains. These participants of the industry aren’t catered for very
well.
The ‘BIM for Seniors’ group is for those that want to learn
to understand how to navigate models, find the best tools and pull models apart.
Drill down into the metadata that is within those models without the need of
complicated digital skills. Get their finger on the pulse of the project and become
deeply engaged in their project data.
Over the next couple of weeks, we will be exploring model navigational
tools offered by Revizto, Navisworks and Archicad (BIMx).
While there are many tutorials available net-wide on all three
mentioned, we find that even in high quality training materials the ‘age factor’
gets missed, i.e. accommodating the differences various generations have in
learning new tools.
Skipping over steps that are obvious for a 30-something BiM
wiz might put a 40-something newbie off from BIMming forever.
We’d like to help and investigate those roadblocks.
Join the group and start bringing your questions/comments.
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14449194/
