Native Facebook functions such as Comment, Like and Share are extended with customized functions for filtering models by educational or professional types searching models using key-words or finding uploaded models of specific users, architects or clients. Models may be placed on the BIMx Facebook page to be shared by other BIMx users. Switch to Walk mode and the user is limited to navigating the model as if walking through it, including the bump-bump-bump of the view as the user “walks” up stairs. Use the joystick in Fly mode and the viewer can go anywhere, through walls or ceilings. The BIMx user interface includes an on-screen dot called the joystick, which provides a visual guide to navigating the site. Using the BIMx viewer is more like using a game than other CAD/BIM viewers. The mobile viewers, the desktop application, and the Facebook page work as a unit to put BIM models “into the hands of all stakeholders not actively involved in the actual creation of the BIM model such as contractors, builders, clients, owners, and principals of design practices,” says the company in a statement announcing BIMx.įeatures of BIMx for iPad/iPhone include: Graphisoft calls BIMx a “social model sharing” system. The BIMx viewing environment includes Windows and Mac viewers and a Facebook page where models may be posted for sharing.

Users of BIMx for iPad or iPhone need not have a license of Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD BIM software to view models. Graphisoft announced today the extension of its BIMx model viewing platform to Apple iOS devices.

With game-style navigation and social networking as a useful function, Graphisoft has released the industry’s first next-generation CAD/BIM viewer.

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