[Leica] NYTimes.com: The Do-It-Yourself Economy

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

BIM is a technological direction foisted on the design and 
construction industry by project managers and others who don't 
understand the design process, and through it  these managers try to 
offload work and responsibility onto the designers. It forces the 
designer to input a large amount of information at a stage where that 
information is not yet available, so it always has to be edited and 
corrected later. It's a make-work process that interferes with design 
and works best with industrial construction. I've not yet seen it 
applied successfully and productively on any architectural project.

It also bogs down computers, makes cooperative work difficult to 
manage and costs architects a huge amount of work that cannot be 
readily invoiced.

As you might be able to tell, I'm not a fan. I shall not use the 
words I would like to apply.


>I have used CAD for years.  Now I have to learn BIM: Building Information
>Modeling, where 3-D models are built not just with lines and solids, but
>with the information of what building components are used.  The
>model/database is theoretically to be used not only during design and
>construction, but throughout the life of the building.  Pretty neat in
>theory, and the software has come a long way, but it isn't quite there
>yet.
>
>Matt
>
>>>  It is, of course, all a matter of perspective.
>>>
>>>  "Part of this is because the current technology does deliver "decent"
>>>  results with far less skill and effort.
>>>  Drawing a fine line of a specific width with a rapidograph pen
>>>  required skill..."
>>>
>>>  As an architect who was trained using ruling pens, the rapidographs
>>>  provide inferior quality to ruling pens and require, comparatively, no
>>>  skill.  For those unfamiliar, ruling pens consist of two bladed points,
>>>  adjustable to any width within their limits, which actually incise the
>>>  paper as they deliver the ink, resulting in a perfect line.  One drop of
>>>  ink is loaded into the pen at a time.  Mastering them to draw a line is
>>>  difficult, and preparing inked building plans with them is quite the
>>>  endeavor.
>>>
>>>  Drawing a fine line with a ruling pen requires skill, the rapidograph
>>>  requires (relatively) no skill but provides "decent" results.
>>>
>>>  Now, of course, we architects draw next to nothing except quick hand
>>>  sketches.   All else is on the computer.  Potentially perfect lines with
>>>  ease (but people still mess up).
>>>
>>>  Matt
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>>  And now you have to learn CAD am I right?
>>  T Squares are analog.
>>  CAD is digital.
>>
>>  You use virtual ink now.
>>
>>
>>  Mark William Rabiner
>>
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