bim.aero Lets You Create BIM from Any CAD Model
Jeffrey Heimgartner posted on February 26, 2018 | 182 views
The concept of building information modeling BIM has been around since the 1970s, although it wasn’t until the early 1990s that the term BIM was coined, and then in the early 2000s that CAD software vendors first became involved in the process.
While BIM continues to be a widely accepted platform for managing the phases of a building project from design to construction—as well as managing the building itself throughout its life cycle—adopting BIM has been difficult for many in the AEC industry. In addition, BIM continues to grow and evolve, making it challenging to fully understand the technology or keep up with it. Lack of funds, time or trained users are among the obstacles that some firms have sighted for not adopting this technology. Not only do these obstacles make adopting BIM difficult, but they can also start to get in the way of the actual design process itself. Designers tend to do their best work when they are focused on design, rather than the ins and outs of the technology itself.
The French based company iluac software has just released a new program, bim.aero, which addresses the obstacles that BIM presents to designers by allowing them to create BIM models using software they are familiar with. Available on the Mac App Store, the AEC industry software allows users to build a BIM model and database from almost any CAD or 3D…