Currently many offices throughout the US and the world are caught between making the shift to BIM, and the giant economic Recession that has stalled many firms forays into shifting to BIM.
"There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm (indifferent, uninterested) defenders in those who may do well under the new." Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Many CAD/BIM manager have seen how some of the old guard are almost recalcitrant to the idea of changing from CAD to anything else. Many Mid Level Managers have spent years honing their CAD skills and dont want to learn new software or think about "throwing away" the skills that they have aquired over the years.
Architects in the 40 years and under category are almost unanimous in seeing how our industry is in the middle of a large shift from Electronic 2-d line documentation, to a fully interactive, Smart, 3-d Model Documentation. the Rules are changning and one of the issues that has been brought up to me is that many firms are trying to create Documentation that completely mimics CAD Documentation of the past.
Should we try to create BIM files and Documents that walk talk and look like CAD files?
my gut reaction is no, I think that we should Create BIM files that walk talk and look like BIM files, and what exactly is that? I think that is an evolving definition.
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