Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a technical topic. Luckily we have such a great network of BIM experts ready to answer any questions or problems you may be having. Also whether your passionate about BIM or an expert Revit user, feel free to contribute to the questions and answers below. If you have a BIM… Read more
We’ve pushed an update to the Polyflor BIM objects available on our network. All of the updated content can be accessed from Polyflor’s BIM profile here: http://www.bimstop.com/profile/polyflor/ Polyflor’s BIM objects for Autodesk Revit and Graphisoft ArchiCAD allow you to easily place their great flooring range directly into your project. This allows you to better see the… Read more
Wow, what an event! Fantastic to see that Build Qatar Live 2012 has been such a success! This year teams had 48 hours to design their proposal for the Museum of Architecture in Doha. The event took place from Tuesday, November 27th 2012 to Thursday, November 29th 2012 and was sponsored by Nemetschek Vectorworks. Winners: BIM… Read more
ArchiCAD 16 Wins BIM Product of the Year (in the UK) at the seventh annual Construction Computing Awards. The Construction Computing Awards or the ‘The Hammers’ exhibit and award solutions for the design, construction, maintenance, and modification of projects on various constructions. Graphisoft won a total of three awards at The Hammers: ArchiCAD 16 was… Read more
As our network grows, the amount of activity across it is growing exponentially. With new content, questions and blog posts being uploaded daily. A request we’ve had is for a site wide activity feed in RSS. So today we are proud to release it! Simply browse to http://www.bimstop.com/feed/ or add this feed URL to your RSS reader…. Read more
ArchitectsJURY is holding a competition, the ArchitectsJURY 2012 Fall Semester Competition for Architectural Students. Any student who uploads an image of work that was originally modelled in ArchiCAD is entered into the draw to win a 13-inch Apple MacBook Pro! The competition closes at 24:00pm CET on December 31, 2012, so hurry and get those submissions in!… Read more
The internet is changing and moving to a model based around people’s real identities, where as previously it was made up of aliases (for example user names like; Matt456). We think the move to people’s real identity is important especially for business related applications where knowing about the person you are dealing with or downloading… Read more
The Mercury City Tower may be the new tallest building in Europe but the Federation Tower, also in Russia, is expected in 2013 to overtake the title of the tallest building in Europe. It will also be the tallest concrete tower in the world! Some Interesting Facts The Mercury City Tower is expected to be… Read more
Although the main focus of having BIM components or objects is for documentation. When built correctly, BIM components do render up very nicely. This makes them great for presentations to clients and developers, saving you a lot of time and helping the clients to build a better relationship with the actual products going into their… Read more
Since our last post about the new openBIM event, Build Qatar Live 2012, some new announcements have been made. Awards Announced 5 award were announced, on the Build Qatar Live 2012 website you will find the criteria for each of the awards: The openBIM Build Qatar Live 2012 Award Best use of BIM for Design, Drama and Excitement Best Multi-disciplinary BIM … Read more
