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But with so many factors to consider, that response will be calculated and years in the making. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the A/E/C community responds, from product manufacturers to contractors. “The programs are intuitive enough to take a back seat and let the architecture shine through.”Īrchitects seem to be climbing on board.

“BIM allows you to be an architect,” says principal Stephen Wright. The designers are happy to have made the effort. To facilitate the process, the company has set up training sessions every month, bringing in a paid consultant from Autodesk. The company is introducing the program team by team as new projects come on board, and nearly 20 percent of the designers have made the switch. Hanbury Evans Wright Vlattas and Co., a firm headquartered in Norfolk, Va., is in the midst of transferring its designers from AutoCAD to Revit. Autodesk's Revit Architecture was used for the building information modeling, and 3ds Max was used for visualization and more dimension.Ĭonversion entails a greater investment than the program purchase training is also a big expense. This is not a photo it's a rendering, showcasing the realistic qualities of 3-D rendering as well as program interoperability. Considering the economic investment of the transition from a 2-D to a 3-D design process (in the millions of dollars for larger firms), program allegiance is not a decision to be made lightly. Moreover, no single program satisfies everyone's needs.

Since even the idea of working in 3-D is still relatively new, and since different practices have different software needs, there are still a number of 3-D modeling programs fighting for dominance, even within individual technology companies (Autodesk, for example, currently owns Revit, 3ds Max, and Maya). Some users are content with 3-D modeling. But, Bhatt says, “Because BIM represents such a paradigm shift, ubiquity will not happen overnight.” Not everyone has jumped on the BIM bandwagon. In some ways, says Autodesk senior vice president Jay Bhatt, the latest change is even bigger: “Unlike CAD, which moved drafting from paper to screen, BIM represents an entirely new vision and workflow for the A/E/C industry, where digital design tools capture and make available consistent and coordinated information to all stakeholders in the process.”īIM is emerging as an industry standard, and Autodesk is once again at the forefront with Revit Architecture. The release of AutoCAD in 1982 revolutionized the industry, and 25 years later, the design process is being turned on its head yet again, with the popularization of 3-D modeling and building information modeling (BIM). Designers entering the profession today might not believe it, but there was a time not too long ago when the closest an architect could get to computer-aided design was an Etch A Sketch.