ver the past few months, I have been developing a package for Dynamo that is capable of reading, editing, and writing Industry Foundation Classes (IFCs) that I have aptly called Anvil. I have big plans for Anvil, as the workflows it could support are extremely valuable. From a QC perspective, this means being able to automate the cleanup or the addition of information to both dumb and smart models. I intend to bring the world of model checking and compliance checking into the world of visual programming….
Solibri Magazine 2013 features CASE
CASE was graciously invited to present the work we have been doing that involved the use of Solibri Model Checker in this year’s Solibri Magazine. The magazine is published on a yearly cycle and it usually sweetens the pot just before the next version of Solibri Model Checker is released into the wild. The CASE […]
Compliance Checking Using IFC Schema & Solibri
Why Should We Check? Checking that design standards are being met, or that an owner’s BIM delivery requirements are being fulfilled, is an extremely valuable process; however, often times it can be a laborious one. Over the past two years, we have been building compliance checks that ensure an owner’s projects are being built in […]
Visualizing Building Coordination Data & Trends
Everyone produces a long data trail as part of their work. Emails, calendar appointments, building information models (BIMs), meeting minutes, and issue trackers. While we use this data in the moment, we rarely take the time to look back and learn from the data we produce. Knowing the pulse of active projects as they relate […]
The Future of Issue Tracking for the AEC – How CASE Continues to Craft It
At CASE, our software engineers sit alongside architects. This allows us to create great software for the AECO industry, but it also allows us to see old problems from a new perspective. A few years ago, we realized that the way our software engineers track bugs in their software is pretty much analogous to how […]
The Future of Issue Tracking for the AEC. Will BCF be a solution?
In the last post, I briefly talked about the importance of issue tracking, and the current limitations of issue tracking within modern AEC applications. Now I’d like to take a look at one of the proposed improvements to issue tracking, the BIM Collaboration Format, or BCF if you are cool. Advocates of OpenBIM argue that […]
The Future of Issue Tracking for the AEC. Will it be AEC software?
More often than not, projects are now requiring that the design and construction models undergo a clash detection analysis. At the moment this process is manually performed after the modeling has occured. Hopefully modeling software will soon just include clash detection logic, so as we are modeling it can tell us “Hey, there is a […]
Computational Design + Fabrication Workshop @ Tulane SOA
Personally, computational design is most rewarding when you have to rely on it to build something you would have otherwise never been able to accomplish both technically and aesthetically. This euphoria is exactly what I experienced during A-week at Tulane this past month. A-week, more formally known as Architecture Week, is a student-organized tradition at the […]
BCF Exporter for Navisworks 2014
At CASE, we often use Navisworks in addition to Solibri Model Checker. If you use either of these tools, you are aware that they are primarily analysis tools used for coordination and quality control. The primary output of these two tools for coordination are in the form of reports. Navisworks can report clashes in the […]
So Which GH To Revit Plugin Should I Use?
The short answer is all of them! Each of the GH to Revit plugins I briefly covered for Adaptive Components can fill a need depending on what you are trying to achieve, how often you will be updating, how big the project is, and among other things. Without being biased, below are a few suggestions […]
Collective BIM 