topic Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis in Project data & BIM

The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:18:20 GMT

Apologies if this thread is in the wrong place...

Hi,

I'm currently conducting some research on the future of Building Information Modelling and Documentation. I'm gathering information on peoples experiences with BIM and their specific thoughts on what the future holds. So far i've had quite a few replies from Revit users and was after some broader information, so I appreciate if some people can take them time and fill out the attached PDF form?

Thanks for anyone who is able to devote 30 minutes or so to aiding in the production of this document. I'll send a copy of the final thesis to all those that are interested.

Hmm it appears the file cannot be uploaded as its bigger than 250KB (289KB Compressed...). Please use this link in order to get the form or if you don't want to join the AUGI Forums send a message to me with your email and i'll email the form.

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=28893&page=7&pp=10

Thanks again.

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:30:39 GMT

I linked over to the AUGI forum but couldn't find the PDF. Where is it?

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:37:45 GMT

Matthew wrote:
I linked over to the AUGI forum but couldn't find the PDF. Where is it?

Hi Matthew, did you sign up and login? You need to be a member in order to view the forums (I think). Free to join and you won't get any annoying spam. Once you've joined and have automatic sign in turned on; the link should take you directly to the appropriate thread and the correct page to download the "case study form.pdf"

Cheers

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:48:00 GMT

Third time's the charm I guess. When I tried before it took me to the topic but not the correct page or location. this time it worked. I've got it now and will send it along when I can get a chance to fill it out.

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Anonymous — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 22:50:21 GMT

Matthew wrote:
Third time's the charm I guess. When I tried before it took me to the topic but not the correct page or location. this time it worked. I've got it now and will send it along when I can get a chance to fill it out.

Thanks Matthew,

Greatly appreciated. For anyone else that has difficulty the file is located at the top of page 10 of the thread.

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 22:50:21 GMT

Unfortunately I haven't had the desired support that i was after. In fact i've had no ArchiCAD users fill out the form. I'm trying to make the thesis as non-bias as possible. Still only revit users have helped me out.

It would great to have a couple of different perspectives. I'll also be posting my findings on my blog site for all to view along with parts of my thesis for those interested. http://revitrants.blogspot.com/

If you do want to help me out and are having issues with the form please let me know on cprice (at) cadway (dot) com (dot) au. I can email you the form if necessary.

Cheers.

I DO NEED THE STUDIES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE NOW AS ITS GETTING TO THAT CRITICAL PERIOD.

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Djordje — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 15:11:30 GMT

Mr wrote:
Unfortunately I haven't had the desired support that i was after. In fact i've had no ArchiCAD users fill out the form.

Did you try posting the PDF here?

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Anonymous — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:25:06 GMT

Mr wrote:
Unfortunately I haven't had the desired support that i was after. In fact i've had no ArchiCAD users fill out the form. I'm trying to make the thesis as non-bias as possible. Still only revit users have helped me out.

It would great to have a couple of different perspectives. I'll also be posting my findings on my blog site for all to view along with parts of my thesis for those interested. http://revitrants.blogspot.com/

If you do want to help me out and are having issues with the form please let me know on cprice (at) cadway (dot) com (dot) au. I can email you the form if necessary.

Cheers.

I DO NEED THE STUDIES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE NOW AS ITS GETTING TO THAT CRITICAL PERIOD.

Sorry. I've been swamped this week. I don't recall you mentioning any deadline (in our business it seems that nothing gets done without one). I'll get it out this weekend.

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:43:45 GMT

I did originally try posting the file here however its 324KB in size and when i tried to post it, i was notified that this is above the limit? Seems a very small limit?

Thanks.

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:41:59 GMT

Chris:
I emailed mine yesterday. Did you receive it?

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:03:14 GMT

Yes Eduardo I did thanks. I thought i sent a reply email letting you know?

Cheers,
Chris.

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:21:44 GMT

I started to fill it out but when I saved the work in progress it became uneditable. This won't work for me as I can't do it in one chunk of time and even if I could I won't work on something that I can't save as I go.

I haven't set up PDF forms myself so I don't know if this is a limitation of the format, something wrong with the settings, or a platform issue (I work primarily on my Mac, but I have this problem in full Acrobat as well as Preview and Reader).

If you have a solution please let me know. BTW what is your deadline?

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:12:26 GMT

Matthew wrote:
I started to fill it out but when I saved the work in progress it became uneditable. This won't work for me as I can't do it in one chunk of time and even if I could I won't work on something that I can't save as I go.

I haven't set up PDF forms myself so I don't know if this is a limitation of the format, something wrong with the settings, or a platform issue (I work primarily on my Mac, but I have this problem in full Acrobat as well as Preview and Reader).

If you have a solution please let me know. BTW what is your deadline?

Strange. The form was created in Adobe Acrobat Designer 7.07. So should work fine in Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0 and it appears to be Mac users who are having difficulty with the form. If you could save the answers in a word doc and send that to me (if its not too much trouble), I can then import that into the form...

Cheers,
Chris

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

stefan — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 11:07:51 GMT

I have succeeded in filling in the form, but it's a shame that Acrobat Reader can only send or print the form and not save the results.
You can export the form as plain text though, if you want to keep a record.

Please give a message here when you have some results to share 😉

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:11:15 GMT

Hi Chris,

Do you have a link where I could download the final thesis?

Best Regards,
Luke

Re: The Future of Building Information Modelling - Thesis

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:13:27 GMT

lchapman wrote:
Hi Chris,

Do you have a link where I could download the final thesis?

Best Regards,
Luke

Not yet Luke.

Thesis is finished but i haven't had much free time to upload it to my blog site. I'll post when I do.