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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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...
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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...
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‘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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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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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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I never thought about ‘Isolate Property Sets’ in this way. The original purpose was to hide all properties except a company's own properties: Isolate the company property set and use ‘Not Grouped’....
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…yes, you can easily adjust this example also for calculating oranges :-)
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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...
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…and if you are still using Simplebim 10 you can for comparison check out the older “Let's count apples” video from Gio. Maybe this will convince you to move to Simplebim 11 and dataflows, where ac...
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One more, although a bit advanced: When you are splitting objects with Simplebim and want the resulting split objects to always get the same GUIDs, you can use ‘GUID Mapping’ explained in this know...
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