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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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Recent activity by Jiri Hietanen

  • Brainstorming with BIM

    Everyone needs to organize models from their own viewpoint, but how is this best done? The most typical organizing structure is a hierarchical tree that contains all objects, but each object only o...

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  • Filling openings of demolished doors and windows

    Recently this interesting use case for dataflows came up with a customer. The setting is a renovation project where some doors get removed, which leads to two tasks: removing/demolishing the door a...

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  • Running dataflows faster!

    When you have a small model you can just run dataflows, sections and steps without thinking too much about performance, but with large models the performance can have a big influence on the usabili...

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  • Find one to find them all

    When you are using a model you most often want to treat similar objects as one set. But how can you best create a group of similar objects?In Simplebim you just need to find one object that belongs...

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  • Identifying objects, in general and in projects

    One of the most basic things in BIM is identifying objects, i.e. asking what an object represents. When an object is identified it becomes ‘machine readable’, which is the big difference between BI...

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  • Hitting the target

    You may have seen a nice Simplebim dataflow that does amazing things in a demo or in one of Gio's videos. Then you have tried to do the same using your own models, but were not able to make it work...

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  • Start with a clean slate

    One of the basic features of Simplebim is the trimming functionality. The first thought is to remove (trim) everything you don't need from the model. This way you won't waste any time examining, va...

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  • Past, present and future of Jiri

    None of this was planned. I was probably the first kid in our school to get a computer (Commodore VIC20) around 1983 and have been interested in computers ever since. But when it came time to choos...

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  • Count everything, but only once!

    When you calculate anything from a model it is important that you calculate everything you need to calculate and that you don't double-count anything. Simplebim can help you prepare your model for ...

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  • Creating "hybrid groups" using dataflows

    In Simplebim we have two kinds of groups; manual and rule based. Manual groups are great for ad-hoc work, because it is super easy to just drag&drop objects to the groups. Rule based groups are als...

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