BIM ENVIRONMENTS, PLATFORMS, AND TOOLS

design applications
1. parametric modeling
2. more than a design tool
3. 10 to 50 different applications
4. sufficient information to support design operations
hierarchy
1. BIM tool
  1. task-specific application
2. BIM platform:
  1. data for multiple uses
3. BIM environment
  1. data management
BIM Design Tool
1. User Interface
2. Drawing Generation:
3. Ease of Developing Custom Parametric Objects
4. Complex Curved Surface Modeling
5. Other Tool-Level Capabilities
As a BIM Platform
1. Scalability
2. Tool Interfaces
3. Libraries of BIM Elements
4. Platform User Interface Consistency
5. Extensibility
6. Interoperability
As a BIM Environment
1. needs at all three levels
BIM PLATFORMS
1. Revit
2. Bentley Systems
3. ArchiCAD
4. Digital Project
5. Digital Project
6. Vectorworks
7. Tekla Structures
8. DProfiler

Resource summary

	Created by Lilian Alvarado about 10 years ago