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Comment on Trimble Acquires Penmap : Customized Software for The Surveying Market by Jim Foster

Jim Foster — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:01:36 +0000

Yes, thanks John, I’ll add to the body of the post as well. best, Jim

Comment on Trimble Acquires Penmap : Customized Software for The Surveying Market by amonle

amonle — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:37:41 +0000

There is also Vico http://www.trimble.com/news/release.aspx?id=110212a

Comment on We Now Have The Time and Inclination To Do Things Right : BIM Adoption Reaches 71% In North America by http://frombulator.com/2013/02/we-now-have-the-time-and-inclination-to-do-things-right-bim-adoption-reaches-71-in-north-america/ | The BIM Standard

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Comment on When BIM Falls Down : Call Me Maybe : It’s Communication by Erik

Erik — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:33:02 +0000

Ah yes, the BIM made me fail argument. Classic. Wrong, but classic…

Comment on Bespoke Homes : Facit Design Using BIM to Design Homes for Assembly by Jim Foster

Jim Foster — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:49:03 +0000

Well when the bottom dropped out in 2008 is was all about doing more with less, and everyone unionized or not were getting haircuts. But it is a valid argument, especially one predicated on hourly/billable pay. Why make things more efficient? However, technologies will get incoporparated as leading edge companies prove their mettle and the worth of these. BIM, modular buildings, etc. I guess don’t have the intial holy sh*8 moment of the first nail gun, but tough to argue against the nail gun.

Comment on Open Source IFC Authoring Tool by Leon

Leon — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 11:47:24 +0000

The linux of the AEC world is here: http://www.bimserver.org... what you really want is the GNU of the AEC world.

Comment on Bespoke Homes : Facit Design Using BIM to Design Homes for Assembly by Erik

Erik — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:16:05 +0000

I always wonder what the labor implications are when I talk or read about technologies that are bringing efficiency to construction. I’m all for it, but I know the 800lb gorilla in the room is labor. Your thoughts? Anybody else got a position?

Comment on New Windows Surface Tablet Puts Revit in the Field. by Jim Foster

Jim Foster — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:03:02 +0000

Shaun,

Point taken, but with Field BIM a lot of the time not a lot of infrastructure so you would have to set it up yourself. So what do you imagine it would look like? We bounce this idea around a lot. If you were relying on a Citrix type model, what kind of connections would you need? For us, having the power resident on the laptop/tablet PC is more important and we have a ‘slave’ computer that all the data gets saved to on a periodic basis, and that ‘central’ file gets backed up to the cloud. Thanks for the comment.

best,
Jim

Comment on New Windows Surface Tablet Puts Revit in the Field. by Jim Foster

Jim Foster — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:42:51 +0000

Bill,

I see Revit in the field as task specific. Perhaps there is a way to set up the ‘field’ model to not tax the resources. From my perspecitve, we model existing buildings in Revit, and start with generic componentry and detail back at the shot, the laptop/tablet PCs are not that high powered and have performed admirably, inlcuding a 400,000 SF Tower. But agreed, it iwll be interesting to see how far we can push the functionality.

best,
Jim

Comment on New Windows Surface Tablet Puts Revit in the Field. by Shaun

Shaun — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 22:46:42 +0000

It would be nice, relying on WAN for remote desktop (citrix app etc) is waaaaay more preferable than accessing a central file over WAN. I have tried both and the limit with tablet access is the desktop focused 3D navigation… which remains an issue for either scenario.
Working ‘remote’ you don’t have to carry the processing hardware, the battery to power it and the data stays safe in a data-centre.

Shaun