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Lots of AI tools are being pitched at this industry. Very few posts say what actually worked. Share something concrete: the task, the tool or how you did it, and roughly how much time it saved, or...
For renovation and fit-out work, the as-built model is the starting point for everything. But asking for "everything" gets expensive fast. Architects: what do you ask the scanning or modelling team...
Plant work has its own problems: dense pipework, P&IDs that don't match the field, strict tie-in tolerances, and plant design software that doesn't read every format. How does your team go from a...
Security questions now come up on most serious scan and BIM jobs, especially plants, data centres and government work. What clients tend to ask: Agreements: is there a mutual NDA, and whose paper?...
Quoting modelling from a scan before a site visit is one of the hardest parts of the job. Too high and you lose the bid, too low and you lose money. How do you do it? Per square foot or metre, per...
Point clouds in Revit can be slow and confusing. Some things that tend to help. Add your own, and correct anything that doesn't match your experience. Before Revit Clean and unify in your...
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...
This is an open community for the people who scan, model and build: architects, engineers, contractors, BIM and VDC teams, and scanning and survey firms. The feed is for posts: questions, projects,...