3Ds Max and Vray Visualisations – coming soon!
While hardly BIM, 3Ds Max does allow updateable links to the Original Revit File to produce visualisations.
Importing geometry into Environmental Analysis software such as Square Ones' Ecotect permit detailed studies. Designs can be modified to optimise their environmental characteristics.
Animated Sun Study of Bordeaux House
By importing the *ifc into Tekla, comprehensive analysis and structural detailing is possible. Presently *.ifc's are used as references to model over the top of. An *.ifc Object Converter is undergoing development which will enable existing *.ifc geometry to be converted into rich Tekla data.
An unlikely means of viewing *.ifc data has come in the form of IFC2SKP, a SketchUp Plugin which can read *.ifc data, and may soon allow “rich” export as well.
The *.ifc model as viewed in DDS viewer. Data identifying the ifc schema can be viewed by selecting objects in isolation or by navigating through types.
The *.ifc file from Revit is audited in Solibri Model Checker. SMC identifies clashes in geometry, in this case overlapping walls and slab. SMC is used to great effect detecting clashes between merged structural, architectural and MEP disciplines.
Autodesk Revit is the workhorse of the Building Information Modelling stages (BIM). While geometry can first be modelled in surface modellers, such as Rhino or SketchUp, and imported as mass objects, it is in Revit (or Archicad) that the rich semantic data is modelled.
Google SketchUp is where this project began. Rem Koolhaas' Bordeaux House in Floriac, France, was the subject chosen to document in SketchUp to learn the software. Original References for the House are from UME Magazine.
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