BIM (as I have read) is Building Information Management.
And its intent - as you say is for construction analysis, scheduling,
and building maintenance.
There are several levels information that can be stored in a
Revit/BIM drawing, ranging from Level 1
to Level 7 if I remember. The most info that I've seen available in a
Revit sprinkler block was minimum
flow rate (15 gpm) and a thread size.
If Revit took it to the max and included everything, what good would it be?
Who would "repurpose" a system in Revit or for that matter,
understand any sprinkler component?
I have designed several Revit/BIM-based jobs - the primary purpose of
which was coordination, of
course. As for analysis though, pipe only screws in one way. Since
3d can be inserted into a Revit file
anyhow, why use Revit for design?
The only advantage that I can see is that if we throw out all cad
programs (including Autocad), we
can all do the same thing the same way.
Am I misunderstanding something?
At 09:51 AM 1/24/2013, you wrote:
My understanding is that Revit is a platform for BIM.
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:48 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> BIM as some define is not what we have here. BIM is a huge, complicated
> system. 99% of the CAD work done in 3D is nothing more than CAD work done
> in 3D. Real BIM inputs operational and usage data as well as work flow
> functions into a computer model for analyzing and optimizing utilities,
> work flow and a ton of other things. There are a few real BIM modeling
> programs out there but many incorrectly refer to any design work done in 3D
> as BIM.
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> BIM.
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> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Vince Sabolik <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > What's the advantage of Revit?
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