simplebim® - IFC model with integrated information from the BIMobject Portal - BIMobject Talks!.mov

Software developer Datacubist demonstrates a new technology advancement in their IFC software simplebim together with BIMobject AB. simplebim is a smart BIM editor software that is used by BIM professionals to check, evaluate and edit IFC files.

With the new BIMobject™ integration in simplebim all real manufacturer specific content can be dragged and dropped from the IFC model in 3D to a viewer inside simplebim® to view all details of the actual product. This means that a huge amount of rich data, visuals, links to installation and maintenance instructions etc can be retrieved in simplebim®.

This is the first step in the collaboration between Datacubist Oy and BIMobject AB and it showcases a way to carry rich product information in the IFC model files (without actually having them in the file) and using cloud and web servers to present the data in a new smarter way.

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Objects Online Becomes BIMobject Franchise

Objects Online, Inc. and BIMobject AB signed a franchise agreement on Monday, April 23, 2012 establishing a business partnership focused on creating and distributing BIM objects for building product manufacturers in the US market. Our existing core services will remain intact, but this new focus will bring us closer to many manufacturers. The end result will be a huge increase in new 3D objects and BIM content based on real-world building products, all of it available for free on bimobject.com.

“Objects Online, Inc. has been in this market for many years and for us to get them as a BIMobject partner is a natural step forward for the AEC industry, where more of the CAD and BIM objects are coming from the manufacturers and not for generic symbols and 3D geometry. This paradigm shift makes it natural for Objects Online to join us in our quest to move the content to become more based on real products,” says Stefan Larsson, CEO of BIMobject.

BIMobject AB's mission is to assist our customers, product manufacturers in the AEC field to be visible and get selected by creating high quality easy accessible objects for the BIM process. BIMobject provides software tools, web solutions and services to assist our customers in the creation, conversion and publishing of BIM objects on the web and create a straight path to the users of any BIM software.

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Revit 2013 Export Plug-in

The export plug-in for Revit 2013 to Artlantis 4 is now available for downloading. The Artlantis export plug-in offers a direct transfer from Revit into Artlantis without the need for intermediate file formats. During the export, special entities are automatically exploded.

Here is what Artlantis can recover from your Revit model:

• The geometry
• All cameras for parallel views
• All cameras for perspective views
• The shading color and transparency of materials with their names
• The geographical position of the Sun active for the parallel view that is used for the export.

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Bobrow Announces ArchiCAD Training Courses on Sale

It has been a while since we've heard from ArchiCAD Guru, Eric Bobrow on his training courses. Over the past few months, he's been hard at work, developing more lessons for The Best Practices Course. The Best Practices Course is organized as a series of 29 modules totaling more than 24 hours of material. Each module contains 3 or 4 lessons totaling about 45-60 minutes.

This month, marks the 6 month anniversary of The QuickStart Course. The QuickStart Course is a set of easy to understand training videos that will take you from starting up ArchiCAD all the way through creating a complete building with construction documents.

The offer is a combination of a price discount (QuickStart cut from $197 to $127, Best Practices reduced from $697 to $597) and payment plans (QS for two payments of $67, BPC for $97 per month x 7 months). This offer is for a limited time only, so order your ArchiCAD training courses today!

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ArchiCAD plug-in Update

Abvent has released new export plug-ins for ArchiCAD 14, 15, SE 2011 and SE 2012 export plug-ins to Artlantis 2, 3 and 4.

Fixes:

• in ArchiCAD, when the geometry was too far from the origin, it would cause an offset of the position in Artlantis when merging a scene or using the Use Reference File command;

• When updating an Artlantis 2 scene with objects through the ArchiCAD export plug-in's Use Reference File command, the geometry disappeared.

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Spring Has Sprung

Punxsutawney Phil, the groundhog of Gobbler's Knob predicted a long winter this year. The weather is finally starting to warm up, flowers are in bloom, and butterflies fill the air. This means Spring has sprung and it's time for you to spring into action.

We've got four of the Artlantis plant media volumes on sale through May 14, 2012: 3D Pines & Conifers, Asian Trees, Exterior Plants 1 and Exterior Plants 2. These sets have various species of plants at various stages of growth.

The 3D Pines & Conifers volume includes 24 photo-realistic 3D models of trees. The 3D Asian Trees volume includes 20 photo-realistic 3D models of trees. The objects on both of these volumes are created from Bionatics seeds.

The Exterior 3D Plants 1 volume consists of 95 photo-realistic close-up capable 3D plants. The plants are adjusted automatically in their development of leaves (color, amount, size.) The Exterior 3D Plants 2 volume consists of 185 photo-realistic plants and trees. The plants have various stages of growth, starting from seedlings to fully grown plants. This volume contains a choice of plants from different latitudes.

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