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    BIM Handbook A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers, and Contractors Second Edition Chuck Eastman Paul Teicholz Rafael Sacks Kathleen Liston wiley John Wiley & Sons, ne 258M Matorme 77 26 BIM PLATFORMS BIM platforms may be used in diverse ways i building construction: bythe architect for design modeling and draving production, by an engineer for structural or energy data management, by a contactor for developing acon struction coordination model, for fabrication desing ofr faiity manage- rent, for example: they include varying types of tool functonaiy. Some are marketed to mulipl types of wer The dllerent marketing strategies lead to package with different collections of functionality In this review, we do not ‘ules these diffrent ues but consider the major BIM ptfrms generically from the perspective ofits primary product, with references to other products running onthe same platform. Their uses and limitations willbe considered ‘mare explicilin the chapters stscised withthe diferent ype of RIM wer ‘We consider each platform from the thre levels outlined in Setion 2.5 a8 tool, as platform, and a an environment. ‘Asis broadly understood, the acquisition ofa software packages very di {erent fom most athe purchases we make, Whereas the purchase of ai ‘sed on a very specific product nd set of features a software packageinval¥es ‘bothitscurrent cepabilies and the development path of enhancements that are refeoed regulary. at leas noua. A porcheer is buying ino boll he erent rodct and its future evolutions s projected by the company. Ones als pur chasing a support system that a least one perc in em wl be dealing with “The suppor system isan augmentation of the use-provided documentation and online support Bil into the BIM tool. Apart from the vendor's support ‘network, a software aystem owner i als part of a broader user community Mast provide blog communication for peer-to-peer help and open portals for the exchange of object fame. Thse may be fee or availabe at a sll eos. “These als shouldbe considered inthe aquisition of a BIM plsforn. tno A Gi ag ‘We consider the Revit platform from the perspective of Revit Architecture. Revi isthe bestknown and current markt leader for BIM in architectural design. It was introduced by Autodesk in 2002 after Autodesk acquired the Revi program frm a startup company: Revits a completly separate platform from AutoCAD, with a different code base and file structure. The version reviewed here is 2011. Revit sa family of integrated products that curently includes Revit Architecture, Revit Structure, and Revit MEP. It runs on Win- dows OS and on Macs using the Windows BootCamp® plugin. I runson both 52. and 64-bit processors and versions of the OS. fl ‘| 4 i # i 78 Chast 2M Design Tok ond Format Modeling ‘As ctl Revit provides an eas}-covuse intrfce, with drag. ove hints for each operation and smert cursor. Its menus are well organized according to \workow and its operator menus gay-out nonavaliable tons within the cur. rent jst context. Is drawing genoration supports very good: is drawing ‘productions strongly associative, so that drawing releases ar easily managed, Iter bidirectional editing fom drawings to and fem the model, and aso bidivectonal editing from schedules for doors, door hardware, and the Hk. Revit supports the development of new custom parametric objects andcustom- ization of predefined objects Its ul st fr defining objets has improved with each release and incvdes trigonometric functions. It can constrain distances and anges and the number ebjecs in an array. It also supports hierarchical relations of parameters. Ths, en object ean be defined by using group of ub ‘objets with parametric relations, It is more dificult ro set up glebal param cers that ean constrain assemblies of objects Iajout an sies. The release of the current API provides god support for extemal application development Revit has aver age st of product bras, pariculelyis own Autodesk ‘SEEK library for specification and design objets. It cares information for bout 850 diferent companies, and about 15,750 diferent product lines (Gncluding over 750 light fixtures) The products are defined in a mixture of fle ypes: VA, DWG, DWE, DGN, GSM, SKP, TES, and TXT. They ae acces sible from Mastrformat, Uniformat, and Oriclass Table 23 (Produts for ‘mats. There are about a half dozen other sites with BIM products, where Revit ‘objects dominate, ‘Asa platform: Revit, asthe BIM market leader, bas the largest eof a0-

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