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Sorry thought that was what I was saying :-)

This just highlights the issue that BIM itself is a misunderstood terminology that some CAD vendors try to exploit. What is BIM to most people is a specific file format. This is just not the case. I think of it as an extension of a job file. Provided you can share the contents of that job file with the interested parties that defines the information model.

It is a very dangerous thing to lock your business into one file format thinking that will be the magic bullet to everlasting BIM riches. I would urge architects to take a good look at other sectors who have a more established 3D based process. In automotive or aerospace the maintenance of the information is critical and this is what drives the core system sales. That old buzzword PLM product lifecycle management is essentially the same as BIM. That has not really hit AEC yet but it will.....once we all realise that no single system solves all the issues.

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