![]() ![]() The software industry goes through cycles where success can come from evolution and widespread adoption, only for something disruptive to come along and change the game. This early BIM technology inspired Graphisoft in Hungary and was eventually spun out of PTC and served as the root of Revit. Jonathan Ingram, creator of the UNIX-based Sonata (at over £100k per seat) was in the process of developing a desktop version, called Reflex but sold out to PTC before widespread commercialisation. While the creators of some of the previous crop of AEC tools were trying to adapt and survive in the new desktop world, Dr. However, the multiple asteroids of cost, desktop computing and the ubiquity of cheap 2D CAD quickly turned them into fossils, to be mainly forgotten. Considering the compute power available at the time, it really was incredible what Sonata, RUCAPS and GDS were able to do in 2.5D and 3D. ![]() ![]() In the 1980s, there were previous generations of BIM tools, before the definition and common usage of building information modelling. Likewise, I often get the feeling that many in our industry don’t know what came before today’s BIM systems, other than 2D drawings and AutoCAD. Humans were blissfully unaware of what came before us until 1842, when British scientist Richard Owen announced his theory on Dinosaurs. With proprietary file formats, subscription, third-party ecosystems and industry standards, what happens when disruptive technology arrives?Ħ6 million years ago, the Earth was hit by a 10km wide asteroid, the Chicxulub impactor, which landed in the Yucatán Peninsula. Over decades, the BIM software industry has refined the process of continual development and evolution of the various competing tools. ![]()
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