BIM US Standards.

[Anonymous]

Is GS aware of this? Are you guys involved ? I don't want to see standard that will be favoring Revit (current one is favoring AutoCAD in my opinion).

http://www.nibs.org/newsstory1.html

[Anonymous]

It seems the most realistic approach is to consider BIM within the context of the National CAD Standards, and not attempt to reinvent the wheel by developing a separate BIM Standard.

I am not a "Free Market" kind of guy (Fair Market, yes), but I do believe that we are all wearing our "Big-Boy pants" and the industry will eventually find equilibrium with standards without the benefit of this pseudo-intellectual, expert committee. Just my opinion.

Gary Bley

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

The article says the US Coast Guard is 'actively participating in the effort'. They have been pioneers in the whole BIM thing using ArchiCAD, and they are very vocal about it. So either them or Kimon Onuma/Webscape or both must be making sure the thing leads to a true open standard as opposed to an attempt to create pseudo-technical trade barriers/hurdles (which is what most people are wanting to hit their competition with when they initiate work on standards).

[Anonymous]

Miki wrote:
Is GS aware of this? Are you guys involved ? I don't want to see standard that will be favoring Revit (current one is favoring AutoCAD in my opinion).

http://www.nibs.org/newsstory1.html

The NCS is an evolution of standards that started a long time ago (when televisions were still big boxes with picture tubes inside) and AutoCAD (remember them?) was still a standard in the industry. They have come a long way since then and are reasonably adaptable to a virtual building practice. I have been using them for years now without any problems and no compromise to the quality of the model or the practice.

Note that the NCS is presented as a set of guidelines not as firm set of required standards. Like the IFC on the other end of the spectrum, I find them to be a good start, and they have the advantage (at least in the US) of being familiar to most new hires (at a minimum they will pretend to recognize them).