Siri for BIM 360? Voice 360 App Gives Architects a Voice
Michael Molitch-Hou posted on January 08, 2018 | 32 views
Anyone who’s familiar with Siri is probably also disappointed with it (no offense, Siri). While the Apple assistant can pull up Google searches or tell you the weather, the functionality is lacking. Other “intelligent personal assistants” are only a bit smarter, with Google Assistant actually capable of reading Google search answers aloud and Alexa able to order some groceries for you. Whether or not you intended to order them is another topic.
Voice 360 makes it possible to explore the model tree, collapse and explode models, rotate and pan cameras and more. (Image courtesy of ProtoTech Solutions.)
The point is that voice control software is a long way from achieving true functionality. If a smartphone app can’t be trusted to work properly, what does this mean for tools with true professional functionality?
ProtoTech Solutions, from Pune, India, is making progress on this front with a voice control app designed specifically for Autodesk’s BIM 360 cloud platform. After previously winning hackathon awards for Fusion 360 apps three years in a row, the firm has developed Voice 360, which uses speech recognition to execute commands in Forge Viewer.
Starting at about minute 2:30 in the video below, you can see Voice 360 used to execute a variety of commands that can include:
- Show/Hide for displaying elements within a model tree, layers…