iPda Charles Good-Man -- Part 1 Design Build

Charles Good-Man, the director at iPda (Integrated Process Design Associates) talks about BIM workflow and the way the firm embraces "Design Build", the new territory of building industry.

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• GRAPHISOFT
• ArchiCAD
• BIM
• Architecture
• Architect
• Design
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[svenglezz]

@indianadarren you don't need to do that, just have your outlet in 2D and give it a thickness to creat it for any 3D needs and set the elevation, but when would you need to such a thing? to show the electrcial contractor w'r a plug goes ? they will always know this better then the one laying it out on a drawing.

[indianadarren]

@svenglezz As a side note, the problem with modeling architectural elements like you describe gives you incorrect imagery for construction documents. Imagine modeling a wall outlet. What will it look like in plan view? A small, thin rectangle against the wall. But what does it need to look like on a floor plan? See, two different things. BIM products like ArchiCAD, Revit, and Chief Architect solve those problems.

[indianadarren]

@svenglezz What he's saying is that he does not want to use dwgs to build his 3D model from. He wants to work from scratch, one piece t a time, like the construction crew will. He wants to use just the construction documents, and nothing else.

[svenglezz]

I'm little confused on the "don't want dwg's" ? It's always been possible to have a model in dwg format, all you do is add a thickness and/or elevation to items in autocad. You can also make a dwg' that xref's in each floor plan one by one to the elevation to have a full building in 3D. I do this often for the mechanical to help view risers etc. (even when the arch' dwg's are not in 3D), this also can be done for ASMEIL dwg's for co-ordination and later on for "sleeving" dwg's