BIM Workflow

Today, March 24, 2020, GRAPHISOFT proudly enabled a global 60-days free access to BIMcloud as a Service to provide help and support for all its ARCHICAD customers all around the world during the outbreak of Coronavirus (COVID-19). This subscription service can help ARCHICAD customers work remotely in teamwork during this unfortunate crisis. Please note that after 60 days, subscribers are free to cancel their subscription or continue at €68/month/user.

In this article, you can learn how to use BIMcloud as a Service, working in a teamwork project, and how to back up your BIMcloud/teamwork projects.

If you are an ARCHICAD costumer with active SSA (maintenance contract), you are eligible to access a Twinmotion 2020 license, free of charge till December 31, 2021. In this article, you will learn how to obtain your Twinmotion 2020 license. Below you can find the main steps:

COVID-19 is affecting many companies with its outbreak in all over the world [including Spain]. Most people who become infected experience mild illness and recover, but it can be more severe for others. One of the most recommended preventive measurements is to take care of your health and protect others by staying at home and work remotely. But we all know that professions within the construction industry and especially architectural practices massively rely on teamwork and collaboration. The...

5th of March 2020, GRAPHISOFT released the Spanish version of ARCHICAD Start Edition 2020. This latest version of ARCHICAD, which is the entry-level product line of GRAPHISOFT, covering almost every necessity of micro-practices and solo architects to enter into the BIM world. The toolsets and features offered in this edition include the full BIM workflow, but with some limitations on few tools for internal teamwork collaboration, modelling and visualisation capabilities in comparison to the...

If you want to be a certified BIM professional, you can start your journey with 3 components, a good BIM authoring software, a flexible information exchange solution and a practical training and certification program. GRAPHISOFT ARCHICAD is one of the best BIM authoring software to help you work in BIM and mastering advance openBIM (information exchange) techniques, and GRAPHISOFT Learn program will enable you to become a GRAPHISOFT Certified ARCHICAD BIM Professional or even in more advance...

If you want to start learning BIM or if you want to check different BIM authoring solutions, GRAPHISOFT ARCHICAD can be a good point to start. Beside that it is easy to learn BIM with ARCHICAD, this software has a very intuitive and interactive interface and productivity features that save you an enormous amount of time. To make it easier for you to start your BIM discovery with ARCHICAD, in addition to Video Tutorials and BIM Classes, now we are with you on your way of learning ARCHICAD with...

ARCHICAD sample projects are the best point to discover a BIM model as well as having a technical overview on ARCHICAD’s modeling and documentation capabilities. In this post we are introducing two sample projects prepared by GRAPHISOFT SE and it is available for everyone to download. Residential, Hillside House, Commercial, S-Office

Bluebeam Revu is a multipurpose productivity software that is used in day-to-day activities of many people in construction industry. On numerous occasions, we have presented this intelligent solution (Revu) to builders, architects, engineers, and public administrators, where with no surprise we witnessed how the capacities of Revu could take full attention of audiences.  So, in this post, I would like to briefly explain what is Revu and how it ease design communications in both BIM workflows...

GRAPHISOFT supports students, educators, researchers and schools with its BIM software solutions by providing free educational ARCHICAD licenses during their educational activities. This support has been given for many years, but from 14 October 2019 the professional trial access to ARCHICAD is separated from educational site in order to provide a specialized customer care for professionals and a better educational support for students, educators, and researchers. This new approach is...

If you are working in any field related to BIM management, BIM modeling, or simply information or project coordination, then hopefully you know these terms are related to information management. In recent published ISO document about BIM (ISO 19650), the term “data” is replaced with the term “information” with many significant sub-terms to define tasks, roles, and responsibilities related to different types of information in AEC industry. Being an architect, engineer, project manager, etc....

We all know that BIM has been introduced into construction industry by slogan of save time and money (plus being more efficient and accurate). But the real question is, how shall we explain this slogan in real practice. Let’s look at MacLeamy diagram, the comparison of preferred design process (graph 4) and traditional methods (graph 3) shows that the main challenge and efforts of design process shift to schematic and design development phase by using preferred design process. It means faster...