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!
Comments
Recent activity by Jiri Hietanen
-
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...
- View comment
- 2 votes
-
Yes, regex is really powerful and before we had the likes of ChatGPT it was pretty much just for the few and selected. But now it is so much easier. My own approach to using ChatGPT for creating th...
- View comment
- 2 votes
-
The shadow area calculation is especially useful for complex objects such as doors and windows. When we throw the shadow of such an object on a (imaginary) plane all the details disappear. So it do...
- View comment
- 2 votes
-
This is great! I think we should improve the workflow further by asking for the name of the location prism always when we are creating location prisms from clipping planes. Currently it is a bit to...
- View comment
- 2 votes
-
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.
- View comment
- 0 votes
-
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...
- View comment
- 0 votes
-
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 ...
- View comment
- 1 vote
-
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...
- View comment
- Edited
- 1 vote
-
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...
- View comment
- 1 vote
-
‘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
- View comment
- 1 vote