I just drove past this great new building that has just been finished on Dominion Street in Auckland, New Zealand. It has an all frameless glass facade, with a black tint. The glass panels are set at different angles which gives it a striking effect. The building has been designed by Patterson Architects in Auckland,… Read more
We’ve recently being doing some work for Celcrete Cladding Solutions to get all of their great product range into the latest Building Information Modeling formats. Celcrete Cladding is sold throughout New Zealand, for this reason we chose to target the both Autodesk Revit & Graphisoft ArchiCAD formats. These are the two most widely used BIM… Read more
The beautiful Christchurch Cathedral took a bit of a hit in the recent earthquakes, however I’m sure it will be repaired to its former glory! Below is a photosynth I made a while back which was featured by Microsoft. Photosynth is a clever technology which ties photos to together, basically making them into a 3D… Read more
A core goal of ours is to give all BIM (building information modeling) users better and faster access to the BIM content they need. Search is a key part of this, but until now you still had to go to the web each time. Shouldn’t this be easier? Well today we are releasing our first… Read more
We’ve had some good questions recently about BIM (building information modeling) and paint finishes. This affects a lot of building product manufacturers who are trying to create great BIM tools, but who’s product are finish or surface based. Usually for these sorts of products we work with the manufacturers to get their finishes into native… Read more
We’ve recently been doing a lot of work with a new client to get all of their product range into useful 3D BIM formats. This has involved building content for Revit, ArchiCAD and sketchup to help them reach as much of them potential market. Below is the first one of these, an Exterior blind object… Read more
Library layouts are normally an after thought and each BIM user (be it Revit, ArchiCAD or Bentley) tends to have a different opinion on it and their own custom way of keeping everything organized. This is fine up until a certain point, when lots of people are involved. We’ve also had our own system, putting… Read more
As a part of our goal to support BIM (Building Information Modeling) & as globally as we can, we are exciting to announce the new Vectorworks content that is now available as free downloads from BIMstop.com Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc has been very generous in taking the time to upload a lot of very high-end great… Read more
With our BIM content network (BIMstop.com) growing strong, we thought it was time to launch our phase two. The need to speed up collaboration is getting larger , with the increased use of BIM (building information modeling) and ever shorter build times, the flood of email through consultant’s offices is getting out of hand. We need… Read more
