Bimthoughts

I had the privilege of talk with the BIMfamous Steve Stafford.  We talk about the new features of 2019.1 and give our take on how we would take advantage of the new stuff.

Wow! what a great conference.  I followed my own advice and meet some new BIM friends. I am proud to introduce to the BIMThoughts Family: Kristin Gardenhire Christina Holden Dana De Filippi and Sarah Causey. We talk about what we learned, what we are scared of and a bunch of other BIM Stuff.

In this episode, Scott Lelieur, Director of Operations at Lake | Flato, talks about how technology influences the design process at his firm with Bill and Charlie. During the conversation, Scott discusses how keeping the craft of architecture at the forefront of the design process has fueled success at Lake | Flato. The conversation also … Read More →

Introducing the first in our new format, and one of our new co-hosts. BIMThoughts is now a new topic based podcast. We plan on having our regular panel disucssions, interviews, and now hardware, IOT, Construction, Infrastructure. Sit back and enjoy an introduction to Hardware with BimBOX’s own Buck Davis.  

Paul F. Aubin and joins Bill and Kristina for the annual what’s the heck is new in Revit Episode. This time we talk about Revit 2019.   Links Revit 2019 alt icon Paul F. Aubin Linkedin Learning / Lynda.com  

In this episode Robert Fink, Associate and Design Technology Director at Quinn Evans Architects, explains how BIM is leveraged to document historic buildings and shares what it took to develop a model for Mt. Vernon with Bill, Kristina, and Charlie. During the conversation, Robert explains the unique modeling challenges that exist when modeling an American … Read More →

In this episode Zig Rubel, Co-Founder of Aditazz, talks about his company, which is both a design firm and software developer with Bill, Kristina and Charlie. As part of the conversation Zig outlines his firm’s business strategy for leveraging it’s design talent to develop it’s Design Synthesis, Spatial Test Fit and other applications, which offer … Read More →

In this episode John Locke an architect and Principal Research Scientist with The Living, part of Autodesk Research, shares insight on Project Discover, an application of generative design for architectural space planning, with Bill, Kristina and Charlie. John explains how the design of Autodesk’s Toronto office used a generative design process of collecting building user … Read More →

In this episode, Bill and Charlie talk with Joe Banks, National BIM Manger at Nettleton Tribe, about the technologies that inspire him. Joe shares insight around home automation, window family creation, conference talks, content management and the value of technology.   LinkedIn Profile Banggood All about Joe   I’am #2 and I’am not bitter.

In this episode, Bill and Charlie talk with Bryan Seamer, Director of Structural Engineering, and Daniel Stone, Structural Designer, at LPA, Inc. During the conversation Bryan and Daniel provide insight on the process of design and analytical modeling that facilitates the process of structural engineering. Bryan provides insight on how the process evolved and Daniel … Read More →

In this episode, Bill, Kristina and Charlie talk with Phyllis Zhou, Landscape Architect at Sasaki Associates, talk about using Revit for landscape architecture. Phyllis shares her thoughts on which landscape projects are ideal for Revit and the major benefits Sasaki obtains for integrating BIM into its design process.   LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xue-phyllis-zhou-2b368810/  

Bill and Kristin talk with Ryan Cameron about Model Health, and we discover along the way the that it’s more about Project Performance or Project Health than just about the Revit Model. Model Health from Andrew Mehr.

Bill and Kristina start the exploration into Model Health.  We talk though our current strategies and what we look for, we also discover there is a lot to learn of the topic. Thank you Ryan Cameron for the word cloud.  This brings more perspective to the discussion.

In this episode, Bill, Kristina and Charlie recap their experience at the BiLT North America conference.  Bill and Charlie talk about the classes they presented:  an Integrated Model approach with all design disciplines in one single model, and Bill’s top 3 tips from his Bluebeam lab.   Other topics from classes discussed are BIM Level 2, … Read More →

In this episode, Bill and Charlie talk with Kelly Cone, Vice President of Product Management at ClearEdge3D about reality capture. Kelly shares insight about the tools, software and processes for capturing the real world and how to translate that into BIM. Along the we talk about the challenges associated with accuracy, adoption and the future … Read More →

Kristina and Bill talk about the new apps in IdeateApps. IdeateApps is a set of Revit applications designed to increase the productivity of the entire project team. Developed with specific tasks in mind, these tools address the challenges identified by people who use Revit software every day. IdeateApps will decrease the time spent on common tasks and increase … Read More →

In this episode, Bill, Kristina and Charlie talk with Elaine Lee, Senior Associate at Perkins Eastman about her “5 BIM Planning Lessons from Interior Designers Willing to Incorporate Revit into Their Design Process” session at BiLT NA 2017. Elaine shares how her work with interior designers has evolved her firms use of BIM. Links: LinkedIn … Read More →

In this episode, Bill and Charlie talk with Chad Speas, Design Application Manager from Corgan Associates, Inc., about his “Design & Practice Applications Training Initiative; Overcoming the lack of training for a 500+ person firm” session at BiLT NA 2017. Chad shares insight into Corgan’s process for separating work flow and the use of design … Read More →

This week Bill talks with Carl Storms about his sessions at BiLTna and what trends he is seeing in the industry. This episode of BIMThoughts is sponsored by AVAIL you can find out more about AVAIL here.

Bill talks with Bill Allen and Mark Mendez and they introduce us Helix, the first SketchUp To Revit tool that converts Sketchup faces and components to Revit walls, doors, windows, roofs, and curtainwalls without the use of dynamo. The components are fully schedulable and use your template and your content. Simply map your SketchUp file … Read More →