Tekla BIMsight
Tekla just released a new BIM collaboration / Clash Detection program to compete with Navisworks and Solibri. It’s built around IFC, which is awesome. We need more programs that put neutral source IFC collaboration as a priority. Down with the walled gardens. It’s time to share.
You can watch the official video from Tekla here. And read some first impressions here (REVIT blog with strong feelings regarding IFC that I disagree with), here, and well not here, but it’s a funny cartoon that feels relevant.
Oh and did I mention BIMsight is free? Yup. A program to compete with Navisworks and Solibri that’s FREE. So download it today and start exploring. It’s not mac based at the moment (don’t know if it will ever be), so I hope you all have a dual boot machine–since I don’t.
Thomas
Tekla wants to be for BIM, what Adobe Reader is for PDF.
Without a Mac-version af their app, I don’t see how they will pull that off.
I’ll stick with the free Solibri Model Viewer for Mac or Windows…
Jared Banks
I agree, if it wants to be the Adobe Reader for BIM it needs to have a Mac-version. Hopefully that will be coming. I don’t know much about the free Solibri Model Viewer. Can it do all the heavy lifting (actually run clash detection) or does it just view what has been done in the Solibri Model Checker? I need to learn more.
Thomas
Solibri Model Viewer is a free app, that will let you open any IFC-model and view it.
You can zoom, pan and rotate, turn on/off layers, go to stories, view data of objects and that’s about it.
It can not merge several IFC-files or run clash detection og any of the rules/scripts Solibri Model Checker can. It’s only a viewer (much like Adobe Reader is for PDF’s).
Jared Banks
That’s the difference. Tekla BIMsight does those other things. So it’s really not the Adobe Reader so much as the Adobe Acrobat (more than just a reader).