AEC Commons is an open community for the people who scan, model and build: BIM and VDC teams, scanning and survey firms, architects, engineers, contractors and owners. How it works Topics (the list on the left with the three lines) hold...
Plant work has its own problems: dense pipework, P&IDs that don't match the field, strict tie-in tolerances, and native plant design software that doesn't read every format. How does your team go from a scan to a model the piping...
Lots of AI tools are being launched at this industry. Very few posts say what actually worked on real projects. Share something concrete: The task (for example clash triage, RFI drafting, scan classification, modelling, scripting) The...
This is a brand new place and it should be shaped by the people who use it. What topics are missing? What would make you come back every week? What annoys you about other forums and Discords that we should avoid? Bug reports are welcome...
Vendors (Moving Atoms included) can announce products and big releases here, and only here. A launch post should include: What it does, shown on real data (a video or screenshots, not renders) Pricing, or at least how pricing works Who is...
This board is for: Full-time roles Contract or freelance work Subcontracts and requests for quote between firms, for example overflow modelling Capacity available, for example "3 Revit modellers free from December, LOD 300 including MEP"...
Pay in this industry is hard to compare, so let's help each other. If you're comfortable, reply with: Role and level (for example BIM coordinator, senior scan technician, VDC manager) Region or city Years of experience Type of employer...
Two specs get mixed up all the time. LOD: Level of Development From the BIMForum LOD Specification. It describes how far the information in a model element can be relied on, from LOD 100 (a placeholder) through 200, 300, 350 and 400 to...
SLAM scanners have got good enough that many firms now use them alongside, or instead of, terrestrial scanners for some jobs. If you've used one on a real project, share: Which unit, and on what kind of job (interiors, MEP, plant,...
Point clouds in Revit can be slow and confusing. Here are some things that tend to help. Please add your own, and correct anything that doesn't match your experience. Before Revit Clean and unify in your registration software or ReCap...
Security questions come up in almost every serious scan or BIM job now, especially for plants, data centres, government and defence work. Here is a starting checklist of what clients tend to ask, so you can have answers ready. Please add...
Quoting modelling from a scan before a site visit is one of the hardest parts of the job. Get it wrong one way and you lose the bid, the other way and you lose money. Curious how people here do it: Do you price per square foot or square...
Say hello. A few lines is plenty: What you do and where (role, firm or independent, region) What you scan, model or build most often The tools and hardware you use every day One thing you'd love to get better at, or one thing you can help...