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Digital Media Practices
Integrated Project Delivery: A project delivery approach that integrates people, systems, business structures and practices into a process that collaboratively harnesses the talents and insights of all participants to optimize project results.
Building Information Modeling: An intelligent 3D model-based process that gives architecture, engineering, and construction professionals the insight and tools to more efficiently plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure.
3DEXperience
Dassault Systèmes invented 3D Experience to create and visualize products and experiences, simulate and test the possible business solutions in the virtual world, gather and gain insight from data to optimize product development, and manage data and collaborate with stakeholders in and outside the company.
Formit
Another AutoDesk product, FormIt is an intuitive 3D sketching tool for the conceptual design phase. This allows for making informed decisions earlier in the design process with site context, solar impact, and energy analysis.
Digital Project
Developed by Gehry Technologies, Digital Project enables information to be sent directly to manufacturer, rather than needing to be processed separately in preparation for sending out of house.
Revit
This update of Revit introduced system families, such as walls, floors, roofs, and ceilings, built inside a project, loadable families/components, which are built with primitives (extrusions, sweeps, etc.) separately from the project and loaded into a project for use and in-place Families, which are built in-situ within a project with the same toolset as loadable components
Generative Components
Developed by Bentley Systems, this software epitomizes the quest to bring parametric modeling capabilities of 3D solid modeling into architectural design, seeking to provide greater fluidity and fluency than mechanical 3D solid modeling.
AutoDesk Revit
In 2002, AutoDesk bought Revit, allowing more research, development and improvement of the software. Autodesk has released several versions of Revit since 2004. In 2005 Revit Structure was introduced, then in 2006 Revit MEP. After the 2006 release Revit Building was renamed Revit Architecture.
Revit
Originally created by Charles River Software, Revit was intended to allow architects and other building professionals to design and document a building by creating a parametric three-dimensional model that included both the geometry and non-geometric design and construction information.
AutoDesk Navisworks
Formerly known as JetStream, this program allows users to open and combine 3D models; navigate around them in real-time and review the model using a set of tools including comments, redlining, viewpoint, and measurements.
Onuma
The main goal of Onuma creator, Kimon Onuma, was to integrate fully with internet technology and design and construction industry.
Building Design Advisor
BDA was the first graphic interface to deal with daylighting and building technologies within the design process.
ProEngineer
Founded by Samuel Peisakhovich Giesberg Pro/ENGINEER was the first commercially successful parametric feature based solid modeler. Their first customer was John Deere.
MINICAD
Richard Diehl founded Graphsoft, which was the company that developed both MiniCAD and Vectorworks.
Riyadh University Computer Aided Production System was developed by Dr. John Davison and John Watts, and sold to architect Gollins Melvin Ward.
Riyadh University Computer Aided Production System was developed by Dr. John Davison and John Watts, and sold to architect Gollins Melvin Ward.
ArchiCad
This Archicad version was the first representation of a file exchange process. The idea was to allow architects to work on the same building model simultaneously.
ArchiCad V.1
Developed by Graphisoft, this product released on the Apple Computer and focused on creating 2D and 3D environments.
RUCAPS
Richard Diehl founded Graphsoft, which was the company that developed both MiniCAD and Vectorworks.
Riyadh University Computer Aided Production System was developed by Dr. John Davison and John Watts, and sold to architect Gollins Melvin Ward.
Riyadh University Computer Aided Production System was developed by Dr. John Davison and John Watts, and sold to architect Gollins Melvin Ward.
Vectorworks
Richard Diehl founded Graphsoft, which was the company that developed both MiniCAD and Vectorworks.
Riyadh University Computer Aided Production System was developed by Dr. John Davison and John Watts, and sold to architect Gollins Melvin Ward.
Riyadh University Computer Aided Production System was developed by Dr. John Davison and John Watts, and sold to architect Gollins Melvin Ward.
Radar CH
Later called ArchiCAD, Radar CH was the first major BIM release on a personal computer.
AutoCAD V.1
AutoCAD was derived from a 1977 program called Interact CAD, and was release on the CP/M-80 Computer. This program was written by Michael Riddle.
URBAN5
First developed in 1968 by Nicholas Negropante, this software was released on the IBM2250 computer. It was a software that was meant to test the feasibility of language input in a process of urban design.
COPLANNER
Here is a floor plan using COPLANNER, where the walls were solid lines and other systems were dotted. This software came from the minds of James J. Clark, Welden E Elkind, Jerome I Brown, and Madison B. Souder all from MIT.
Eastman's GLIDE CAD
In the original document regarding his Building
Description System Eastman says “Many of the costs
of design, construction, and building operation derive
from the reliance on drawings: as the description of
record of the building. As a replacement, 'this, paper
outlines the design of a computer system useful for
storing and manipulating design information at a detail
allowing design, construction, and operational
analysis.”
Description System Eastman says “Many of the costs
of design, construction, and building operation derive
from the reliance on drawings: as the description of
record of the building. As a replacement, 'this, paper
outlines the design of a computer system useful for
storing and manipulating design information at a detail
allowing design, construction, and operational
analysis.”
Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad
Sutherland created this program for his PhD thesis and won the Turing Award and the Kyoto Prize for. this program was the first to utilize a complete graphical user interface.
Eastmans BDS Schematic
In the original document regarding his Building
Description System Eastman says “Many of the costs
of design, construction, and building operation derive
from the reliance on drawings: as the description of
record of the building. As a replacement, 'this, paper
outlines the design of a computer system useful for
storing and manipulating design information at a detail
allowing design, construction, and operational
analysis.”
Description System Eastman says “Many of the costs
of design, construction, and building operation derive
from the reliance on drawings: as the description of
record of the building. As a replacement, 'this, paper
outlines the design of a computer system useful for
storing and manipulating design information at a detail
allowing design, construction, and operational
analysis.”
COPLANAR
Here us a floor plan using COPLANAR, where the walls were solid lines and other systems were dotted. This software came from the minds of James J. Clark, Welden E Elkind, Jerome I Brown, and Madison B. Souder all from MIT.
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