Jiri Hietanen
I have worked since 1997 on solving the same problem: how we can have successful Open BIM data exchange in the AEC/FM Industry in real projects, with real people. It has been a wild ride, that has finally led to Simplebim and Dataflows. In the Simplebim community I will continue to explore this topic and help everyone best I can. We are never ready, but we are getting closer all the time!
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Jiri Hietanen created an article,
Release Notes for Simplebim 12
Simplebim 12.0 (19.10.2026)New FeaturesSimplebim Base Model — allows you to find, understand and organize data in any model from various design disciplines. Simplebim 12 ships with the following re...
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Jiri Hietanen created an article,
Identifying Simplebim Users
When you activate Simplebim with a license key you have the option to provide your name and email address.This in optional information because Simplebim does not need it for functioning. The purpos...
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Jiri Hietanen commented,
Great analysis! When we have small models reducing the model/file sizes is a ‘nice to have’, but with larger models it can decide if the models are usable at all.
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Jiri Hietanen commented,
Hi Razieh, yes you are right the color badges in the Properties palette (and elsewhere) are only for temporary colors. They logically can't come from the objects, because the color represents a ‘te...
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Jiri Hietanen commented,
You can copy the property value of type properties to other properties, but you can't exclude them like other properties. The only way to remove them is through the type object groups by deleting ...
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Jiri Hietanen commented,
Hi Razieh,The type object properties come from the IFC type objects that are handled in Simplebim as groups and can be found by expanding the object class in the Objects palette. Deleting these typ...
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Jiri Hietanen commented,
Hi Razieh, when a property is locked (shows a lock icon in the Properties palette) the property can't be deleted like other properties. These properties are 'derived' properties' and get their valu...
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Jiri Hietanen commented,
‘Hybrid groups’ combine the efficiency and re-usablility of rule based groups with the ease-of-use of manual groups. This post explains the concept: Creating "hybrid groups" using dataflows
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Jiri Hietanen commented,
Well said. The ‘abstract’ idea of datacubism is to ‘explode’ the original model and re-assemble it from your own point of view. What does it mean in practice? Very often it means that you group the...
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Jiri Hietanen commented,
Here is another multiple Properties palette ‘trick’. The first step is to understand the ‘Highlight Related Values’ functionality.When this option is on, the values used by the selected objects are...
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