Presenting the winners of the Flex Your BIMx challenge!

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Dear Community Members,

This Summer we launched the Flex Your BIMx challenge, inviting you to submit your best works in the most popular design presentation and coordination app out there. As you may know by now, the winning entries aren’t without prizes. The most original submissions win:  

• 1st place: Apple iPad pro or equivalent Apple Gift card + Graphisoft Learn voucher €400 + roundtable with BIMx Product Manager and Product Designer
• 2nd place: Graphisoft Learn voucher €400 + roundtable with BIMx Product Manager and Product Designer
• 3rd place: Graphisoft Learn voucher €240 + roundtable with BIMx Product Manager and Product Designer
• Beauty highlight/Honorable mention: Graphisoft Learn voucher €150 + roundtable with BIMx Product Manager and Product Designer

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Jury and selection criteria

Celia Matsuda Graphisoft, Brazil	László Vass Graphisoft, Hungary	Link Ellis BIM6x, United States	Marin Račić 3D ART, Croatia	Norbert Kucsma Graphisoft, Hungary

Roland Szabó Graphisoft, Hungary	Rumiko Shimo Graphisoft, Japan	Shanelle Reese Graphisoft, United States	Zsolt Sarkadi Graphisoft, Hungary

The jury panel above selected the best entries according to the following criteria:

• Main scoring blocks:
  • Creativity – innovative content, outside of the box thinking
  • Solution fit – advances the use of the available features
  • Interactivity – any user can enjoy the experience provided by the submitted files without specific guidance, they showcase an efficient use of 2D and 3D views; submitted videos are well structured, and provide a complete overview of  the model and solution

• Bonus beauty category – the model is outstanding, with interesting details and a high level of design quality

Without further ado, we present you the winners!

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1^st Place – Benazzi Junior (Drone Photogrammetry and IFC MEP models in BIMx)

2^nd Place – Johan Stinckens (Adding 4D BIM to BIMx) and tada (Simple FM model using BIMx and QR code linkage )

 

Johan's Adding 4D BIM to BIMx:

tada's Simple FM model using BIMx and QR code linkage:

3^rd Place – Kotetsu (QRCode to BIMx)

Honorable mentions – Diego Azevedo (BIMx+Google Sheets to connect BIM modelers and architects) and Abraham Smith (BIMx with information necessary to comply with the COBie standard in assets)

Diego's BIMx+Google Sheets to connect BIM modelers and architects:

Abraham's BIMx with information necessary to comply with the COBie standard in assets:

Beauty highlight – BrunoBuilt (Plaza de Gallos)

Note that BIMx’s upcoming Issue creation feature will integrate BIMx into project revisioning workflows, as some entries addressed such situations. Stay tuned in our blog and BIMx News article to get the latest updates.

Congratulations to all the winners for their great contributions!

Additionally, we would like to thank each participant for their submissions, and enthusiasm for sharing their knowledge with the community. We're already looking forward to your ideas in our next challenge!

Graphisoft Community Team