Modlar Blog
Apple's new mothership
I was pretty excited last week when Apple announce they were building a new campus. They had bought a large amount of land from HP late last year, so it was interesting to see what they were going to be building.They've now annouce that it is going to be a new "spac... Read More
BIM Infographic
Here's a new Building Information Modeling infographic we've put together, this is normally a part of our free Guide to BIM ebook available here.Everybody learns and thinks in different ways, so we hope this will be a welcome addition for the visual thinkers out the... Read More
Freeform modeling in BIM
Here's an amazing BIM model of a free form building. It was built by Arthur Kupreychuk (Kiev, Ukraine) and won the recent competition on Architectsjury.
BIMstop related BIM content
As a part of our new recommendation engine rollout, we've released a new feature to the bottom of each content page - "Related content".This addition shows you other content that you may also find useful.The best part is that it learns! It takes into account what co... Read More
How do you search your BIM library?
We are doing a bit of research at the moment into the best way to browse and search large content libraries. As our content library at BIMstop.com grows larger by the day, we still want users to be easily able to search and easily find what they are looking for. We... Read More
Barrington Arch BIM overview video
We've just uploaded our new Barrington Arch BIM services overview video.The idea behind it is to give people an in-depth (but fast) overview of the service we offer and how it will benefit them and their business. We've also tried to keep it jargon free! It's lookin... Read More
ArchiCAD object screen cast.
Below is a video/screen cast of an ArchiCAD object we built a while back for a client of ours; EverGlow USA. This goes to show how well hardware such as signage can be integrated into the building information modeling (BIM) process.We built EverGlow's product parame... Read More
BIMstop.com advanced profiles
BIMstop.com advance profiles has launched. Open to all BIMstop users for free this allows you to add a lot more about yourself and connect with your friends and colleagues who are also on BIMstop.comThis is a great way for you to keep up to date with your favourite... Read More
Two great buildings
I'm currently in London visiting a couple of our clients and a new potential partner. A couple of days ago I had a breif moment to go and see one of London's great buildings. 30 St. Mary Axe or as it's known the "Gherkin", it was designed by Foster and Partners and... Read More
Facebook meets BIM
Our first Facebook app is now live in the Facebook app directory: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=214292845250622This allows BIMstop users to easily share and get recommendations from their friends & contacts. Making the process of sourcing build... Read More
Library layouts
Library layouts are normally an after thought and each BIM user (be it Revit, ArchiCAD or Bentley) tends to have a different opinion on it and their own custom way of keeping everything organized.This is fine up until a certain point, when lots of people are involve... Read More
Our dream number plate
One of our friends saw this building information modeling "BIM" inspired number plate whilst driving yesterday.
BIMstop.com down for maintenance
Our BIM content network at BIMstop.com is currently down for a bit of maintenance.
Another day, another Groupon clone.
Groupon is one of the rockstars of the technology startup world at the moment. Crowned as the fastest growing business ever, the status is rightly so.As always with successful companies the copy cats are showing up. Last night whilst watching TV for 30mins I saw adv... Read More
Christchurch earthquake before & after shots
Our home town of Christchurch is slowly getting back to normal after the earthquake on the 22nd of February.The Christchurch City Council have put together the below website to give everyone a great over view of the before & after, showing the huge destruction o... Read More
Revit lighting family
Just a quick upload of a lighting family we are currently building for a manufacturer. It has all of the light fittings available options programmed into it as parameters (eg tilt, materials, wattage). We have also linked the fitting to its IES file which keeps ever... Read More
Guide to BIM - ebook update
For 2011 we've decided to release a quick update to our Guide to BIM e-book. After thousands of downloads it was time to give it a slight tweak and fix a few typos. We've also added a new "social" aspect to it, allowing you to more easily share it with your friends... Read More
Hearts go out to Japan
What's going on with our planet lately! First the Christchurch earthquake and now what's happened in Japan is truly awful.So just a quick note for Japan, we are all thinking of you and do let us know if there is anyway we can help.
Thanks you cloud.
The recent Christchurch earthquake has definitley put a lot of company's IT into trouble. Businesses have lost servers and backups, not to mention huge amounts of data which can't be replaced.We also lost our computers, however all was well thanks to the cloud!About... Read More
Temporary glitch
We had a temporary glitch with our web servers in the USA yesterday. Luckily everything is back up and running now though. Sorry for the inconvenience to any of the users out there who were trying to access BIM content from BIMstop.com
February Christchurch Earthquake
Thanks a lot to everyone who sent in messages to check if we were alright. Yes we were all fine & managed to escape our office injury free.It was a horrible experience and we are still getting regular aftershocks.Our thoughts go out to all the people who are sti... Read More
Supercharge your ArchiCAD skills
Our friend Eric Bobrow is about to release a great new program that will help all ArchiCAD users. Its a new program hes created which outlines the ArchiCAD best practises and will turn you (and your office) into an ArchiCAD power house. Weve seen a preview of it and... Read More
37 Signals
Here's a great trick inspired by 37signals, to add BIMstop.com directly into your menu bar - now that's useful!It also really simple to do, here's how: First you'll need Fluid (Mac only at this stage). Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out of any w... Read More
Fred Wilson On Investments
We keep a close eye on what's happening within the USA tech sector. My favourite VC (if that's possible?) at the moment is Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures. Him & his team seem to have a great understanding on what makes a truly valuable web app.TechCrunch r... Read More
BIM Content On Videos
We always get requests to see videos of our Revit families & ArchiCAD objects in action. So, we've decided to upload a few to our youtube channel. There you will see a range of manufacturer's products we have worked with (from beams to light fittings) and how t... Read More
BIMstop In The (Vectorworks) News
We're in the Vectorworks News today. You can read the full post on the planet Vectorworks blog here.It great to be able to now support all the Vectorworks users out there and help to improve their building information modeling (BIM) efficiency.There's already a lot... Read More
Revit Lighting Families
Lighting families are always a bit tricky in Revit. Recently we've been working on a few for a client which will soon be released out into the wild.Below is a screenshot of one that is just being tested. It allows Revit users to easily adjust the materials, light se... Read More
Barrington Arch & Nemetschek Vectorworks
As a part of our goal to support BIM (Building Information Modeling) & as globally as we can, we are exciting to announce the new Vectorworks content that is now available as free downloads from BIMstop.comNemetschek Vectorworks, Inc has been very generous in ta... Read More
Barrington Arch In The News
There was recently an article on our founder Scott Barrington in the news by Fairfax media.You can read the full article on stuff.co.nz here
Merry Christmas
Just a quick note to wish everybody a Merry Christmas & happy New Year!For those of you that aren't on our mailing lists, we have a card for you here.
Bimlet V2 - BIM Communication Everywhere
With our BIM content network (BIMstop.com) growing strong, we thought it was time to launch our phase two.The need to speed up collaboration is getting larger , with the increased use of BIM (building information modeling) and ever shorter build times, the flood of... Read More
BIMstop.com Growing
BIMstop.com - Our BIM Content Network, is still growing and we are pleased to announce that some more exciting partners are in the pipeline to come on board.BIMstop is now a host to a huge amount BIM related files, in Revit, ArchiCAD & Sketchup formats.The first... Read More
Use Your BIM Content To Enter Another Region
The companies we work with find that their BIM (building information modeling) content becomes a valuable marketing tool. The theory behind this is simple; give architects a tool to make their lives easier, in turn their use it on more of their drawings & BIM mo... Read More
BIM & Green Building
Everywhere I go recently I hear about green building, who's using, who isn't and who should be.We all know that being more green in everything we do is the future and buildings are no different. The problem is that green building involves getting people to think dif... Read More
BIM Content On Your Phone
If your like us and obsessed with BIM (Building Information Modeling) then you'll love this.Now available is our BIMstop (BIM Content Network) mobile site. Now where ever you go you can check the latest Revit, ArchiCAD, Sketchup content from your phone. The app allo... Read More
BIM In Japan
We are now in Japan and ready to serve the BIM (building information modeling) needs of Japanese building product manufacturers for both Revit & ArchiCAD.We've now finished translating this website, which has taken a bit longer than expected. As anyone who's run... Read More
BIM Content For Nulook & Bradnam's
Recently finished is the BIM content we have built for National Aluminium's brands Nulook & Bradnam's. (Aluminium windows & doors).Revit and ArchiCAD users can download the finished content for free from BIMstop here.We've produce their window profiles in bo... Read More
DesignBuild Expo - Perth
We are currently in Perth at the DesignBuild 2010 Expo, along side our partners Ecospecifier Global.If your near Perth make sure to come down & say hi! It has been a great event so far, with a very interesting seminar series. Today was a great seminar series on... Read More
Building Live Tokyo 2010 - Finalist!
A quick announcement to say that our team (The Skunkworks team) is a finalist in the Building Live Tokyo 2010 collaborative BIM (building information modeling) competition.This is great news, everybody in our team put in a huge effort and it is good to see that payi... Read More
BIMstop going up.
Just a quick update on BIMstop, thanks to everybody who sent in great feedback!We are seeing a lot of registrations and downloads which is positive, with more Revit, ArchiCAD and Sketchup content being added daily.There's still a lot more features to tune and roll o... Read More