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Monday, January 25, 2010

goBIM... Revit on the iPhone?!!?

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That is right... you are reading my title correctly... Still looks to be in its infancy stages... but WOW!.... This is where it is going people.

goBIM - View BIM Models on your iPhone

I think BIM models are cool. I think the iPhone is cool. So naturally, I thought the ability to view BIM on your iPhone would be cool beyond words. Little did I know that building a simple, functional, good looking piece of software for viewing BIM models on the iPhone would take nearly a year and turn my brain into mush. But here it is, now in alpha testing.



Using goBIM:

We’ve tried to make goBIM as simple to use as possible. Everything you need to get your geometry onto your iPhone should be available in just a few clicks. Currently, the goBIM exporter is only available for Revit. Exporters are under way for Rhino and Digital Project, so please keep checking back.

goBIM for Revit:

◦goBim for Revit will appear as a button in Revit 2010’s “Add-Ins” menu. When you click on the “Export to goBIM” button a dialogue will appear asking for a file address. This is the location where your goBIM file will be saved.
◦When you click export, the selected Revit geometry will be exported. It’s up to you to put it in a location on your server where the goBIM iPhone application will have access to it.*

Download the App here....

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yakso · 795 weeks ago

wow..amazing..but the view from iPhone is limited..too small...just for sketching ideas... :))
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Jbushkey · 795 weeks ago

just because you can do something doesn't mean you should. whats the point of trying to do anything with a bim model on such a tiny screen? Technology has reached the point of diminishing returns...posted from my iPhone
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TheRevitKid 72p · 795 weeks ago

It is a viewer... I think being able to flip through and show your 3D model anywhere with your phone is priceless. For example, you visit a job site without your laptop. The contractor or sub-contractor is having trouble understanding something on your plans, sections, or elevations... Instead of drawing a chicken scratch sketch on the back of a napkin you can flip out your actual model and show him/her.... Not such a bad thing at all.
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jbushkey · 795 weeks ago

Jeff,

If your sketches are chicken scratch maybe you need more practice. I don't say that to be a jack@ss, but I know see that a certain amount of sketching ability is necessary. My sketching improved dramatically after freehand & perspective classes and I continue to work on them. To me the phone screen is too small to be useful. I dont think the contractor is going to be impressed squinting at a tiny screen while looking around your fingers as you rotate the model. The iPhone will be here soon so we will see.
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TheRevitKid 72p · 795 weeks ago

I don't find my sketches to be chicken scratch, in fact I believe I am quite a good draftsman and artist (there might be some sketches in the blogs photobucket somewhere). I was being a bit facetious. Basically, I am getting at the idea that if you took the time to build your elaborate virtual model and figured out the issue already... Why sit there at the construction site and redraft a perspective or sketch of the problem.

How about this... the new iPad runs all the iPhone apps... tah dah! 9" screen to navigate around your model.... better? goBIM on the iPad sounds good to me.
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jbushkey · 795 weeks ago

My grammar however is in decline. For some reason when typing I often confuse know and now, but I see it the moment the comment publishes lol
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jezArkitekt · 758 weeks ago

@theRevitKid : You rock dude! being able to see the 3d geometry of revit on my iphone is priceless...actually its for apps like that the iphone is the leading smartphone on the market! apple rocks!
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Arjun23 · 758 weeks ago

That is pretty cool. I'd like to see this on the iPad. People will probably have to get rugged cases but using BIM on the job for complex geometries would be pretty awesome
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ste-fani · 714 weeks ago

help.
I don't know what program use to import the files into a format for to program goBIM ??

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