RevitCat: BIM History – RUN Part 2

Following on from my previous post on BIM History, here are some more covers from RUN – the RUCAPS Users Newsletter.

RUN 16 – Sept 1988

The Front and back covers featured drawing competition winners from 1987 – these demonstrated the ability to generate coordinated elevation views from the 2.5/3D model.  This may not seem like a big deal nowadays but this was done 37 years ago – over a decade before Revit was born.

 

 

RUN 17 – Winter 1988

This was no longer just a RUCAPS newsletter – but for users of all  software.  This issue was sponsored by “Real Image” who specialised in generating photo-realistic images from RUCAPS & Sonata models.

RUN 18 – Spring 1989

I was editor in chief of the magazine by this stage.

We decided to publish a Technical Supplement that contained all the RUCAPS technical articles from the previous 18 issues – updated.

The front and back covers again showed examples of coordinated elevations generated from the 3D model.  In those days we did not have tools to…

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