Data management

KINDAutomatic to liberate Revit data

Posted by AEC Magazine - July 16, 2025

New cloud platform designed to streamline flow of BIM data

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CAD

SketchUp gets viz and interoperability boost

Posted by AEC Magazine - February 26, 2025

New features include improved materials and environment lighting, plus better Revit and IFC workflows

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Geospatial

Cesium to connect AECO with 3D geospatial

Posted by AEC Magazine - September 5, 2024

Geospatial specialist streams IFC and Revit files as 3D Tiles to place AECO data in 3D geospatial context

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Collaboration

Towards open AEC systems

Posted by Martyn Day - May 29, 2024

We explore Autodesk’s new approach to openness and note that things seem a little different

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BIM

Simplebim: working with structured data

Posted by Martyn Day - February 1, 2023

Open BIM and confronting the challenges of working with structured BIM data

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BIM

SimpleBIM: Taking back control with IFC

Posted by Martyn Day - November 30, 2022

Founded in Finland in 2009, SimpleBIM has played a key role in the rise of IFC standards for data exchange

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Collaboration

IFC Special Report – interoperability for AECO

Posted by AEC Magazine - July 15, 2022

IFC, the data model specification that enables interoperability in the AECO industry, has come a very long way since the…

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BIM

Qonic Atom IFC – ‘component-level’ BIM data sharing

Posted by Martyn Day - September 8, 2022

Qonic's 'open source’ technology supports dynamic, ‘component-level’, BIM data sharing

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Collaboration

Breaking down the IFC 4.3 schema

Posted by Tim Davies - September 6, 2022

A look at the constituent parts of the data model specification that enables interoperability in the AECO industry

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Collaboration

IFC: what is it and why is it needed?

Posted by Emma Hooper - July 11, 2022

Emma Hooper of Bond Bryan Digital provides a useful overview of the IFC data model specification

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