BIM content Blog Posts
Come on in, it's Door Week!
Separating the outside from indoors, doors can open up brand new worlds. For our new Product of the Week, were celebrating doors, bringing you some of our favorite door products from Modlars BIM Library!We offer a variety of doors and door accessories from manufactu... Read More
Watch Out, it's Wall Week!
Providing area definition, as well as support and shelter, walls are the foundation of nearly every building structure. For our new Product of the Week, we'll be showing you some of our favorite wall-related products from Modlar's BIM Library!We offer a variety of w... Read More
Pave the Way for Stone Week!
From mountain lodges, to coastal homes, stones are incredible building materials for a variety of structures. We've recently added new stone manufacturers to our BIM Library under the Finishes and Interior categories, so it comes without surprise that stones are our... Read More
Modlar Integrations for 2014
As all business applications move to the cloud, file management is becoming a larger and larger problem. You may be asking how you're supposed to organise everything, or how it can be effortlessly shared with the rest of your team or organisation.This transition is... Read More
TruStile BIM content now available on BIMstop!
BIM content for TruStile is now available on BIMstop. All content can be downloaded from TruStile's BIM profile here: http://www.modlar.com/profile/trustile.usa/ It's great to see a high-end manufacturing company such as TruStile supporting Building Information Mode... Read More
BIMstop 2013 updates
It's a new year and the team at BIMstop is ready to dive into 2013. We have some exciting features being released in the first quarter of 2013, as well as some great new clients coming on board. All of the new BIM content will be available for Autodesk Revit, Graphi... Read More
Polyflor BIM content for Revit and ArchiCAD now live
We're pleased to announce that Polyflor BIM files are now available for their complete flooring range on the BIMstop network, in both Revit and ArchiCAD formats. You can download them directly from Polyflor's BIM profile on our network here > The Polyflor BIM fil... Read More
BIMstop & Dropbox integration
Following on from our new Box.com integration last week, you can now push BIM objects from our BIMstop network directly to your Dropbox.com account. This makes it really easy to add the content you need to your BIM library from anywhere, even from your smartphone or... Read More
BIMstop and Box integration
New BIMstop and Box.com integration makes library storage and management even easier. Managing your company's vast BIM content library is fast becoming an issue in many enterprises. As your team needs to all be using the latest files and have easy access to them no... Read More
BIMstop BIM projects beta has arrived!
Innovation is a big part of what we do at BIMstop. We are very focused on bringing to the world the very best Building Information Modeling (BIM) process and helping to streamline it across all project stakeholders.This means not only providing as much high quality... Read More
BIMstop new learning search
BIMstop's Building Information Modeling (BIM) content search just got faster and smarter.Search is a key part of all modern software products and is by far the best and fastest way to mine through large amounts of data. Far quicker than browsing through hundreds of... Read More
Manufacturer endorsed vs community BIM files
At BIMstop we are big believers in involving the Building Information Modeling (BIM) community in everything we do. BIM is about collaboration and streamlining workflows, this puts the users at the centre of the process.As we build BIMstop.com into the best possible... Read More
BIMstop BIM activity feeds have arrived
The BIMstop profile page is your unique home on BIMstop. Whether your a manufacturer or passionate BIM user, the profile allows everyone else to easily find your content. It also give you a fantastic way to share everything about you and BIM (Building Information Mo... Read More
BIMstop helps supercharge all of your existing marketing channels.
Traditionally marketing channels have been quite soloed. They all have the same aim; to drive more business to your company, but often get layered on top of each other with not a lot of cross over potential.At BIMstop we believe BIM content is truly different and ca... Read More
Industry first: BIMstop lets you connect with and discover manufacturers
We've said it before; the most important part of BIM (Building Information Modeling) is the "I". Information is the key to BIM and the future of all industries including the Architectural, Engineering and Construction industry (or if you like acronyms, the AEC).BIM... Read More
BIM feedback loop
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is about speeding collaboration and effective feedback. One of the stake holders who have been mssing out on valuable feedback from projects are the manufacturers as they are often one or two steps removed from the process.Today w... Read More
BIMstop profiles
We've pushed a lot of updates to BIMstop in the last couple of weeks and we are especially excited about today's release of BIMstop profiles.Profiles are a great way to get an overview of all the BIM content which has been uploaded by a particular Manufacturer or BI... Read More
Darren Tims from Rice Daubney Australia Talks about BIM
Below is a great video of Darren Tims from Rice Daubney Architects in Australia.In the video Darren gives a fantastic overview of how Rice Daubney are using BIM (Building Information Modeling) in their work flow and the benefits they are gaining from it. This is esp... Read More
BIMstop smarter search launched
We are always looking for ways to make BIMstop smarter, more elegant & efficient. This week we've launched our new homepage redesign & our new search design.Searching for the BIM content (be it a Revit chair or ArchiCAD tank) you are after is now even easier... Read More
BIMstop.com - Our new look!
By now you've probably noticed our new look!BIMstop has been rebuilt from the ground up. We are excited to finally have this version 2 launched. As a part of this we are consolidated our brands Barrington Arch + BIMstop into the new BIMstop.comWe've got some great n... Read More
BIM user testimony
Here's another great BIM user testimony which was recently sent to us:"When looking for products and/or materials..., BIM content from manufacturers receives preferential treatment... When a manufacturer provides that content, its almost a given that their product w... Read More
BIM content testimony
We've recently been running a survey to collect testimonies and insights into how architects & specifiers use BIM content (Revit families, ArchiCAD objects etc) and why they find it so valuable.The results will be reported here on this blog. With the first one h... Read More
Celcrete Cladding Solutions BIM content
We've recently being doing some work for Celcrete Cladding Solutions to get all of their great product range into the latest Building Information Modeling formats.Celcrete Cladding is sold throughout New Zealand, for this reason we chose to target the both Autodesk... Read More
BIMstop login error
Update: This error has now been fixed, back to business as usual!We've had a flood of emails saying there is currently an error with the BIMstop (our BIM content network) login system. No panic, one of our engineers is currently investigating what the error is and w... Read More
What scale to model to?
One issue with the growing BIM (building information modeling) adoption is around standards. Most offices are currently working to an in house standard that works best for them. This is fine for now and is normally the case with new technologies, but over time stand... Read More
BIMstop Add-on for ArchiCAD out now.
A core goal of ours is to give all BIM (building information modeling) users better and faster access to the BIM content they need.Search is a key part of this, but until now you still had to go to the web each time. Shouldn't this be easier? Well today we are relea... Read More
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
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
BIMstop.com down for maintenance
Our BIM content network at BIMstop.com is currently down for a bit of maintenance.
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
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
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
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 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
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
BIMstop.com Quick Login.
BIMstop.com our new BIM content marketplace, makes it very easy to login & start uploading your BIM content in a variety of formats.Below is a quick video of me logging in with my existing twitter account, no having to check emails or set passwords, one-click &a... Read More
BIMstop has Arrived
After months of planning & coding (not to mention a few too many late nights) we are excited to announce that our new depositary for BIM content has arrived; BIMstop.comWe like to think of BIMstop as a place for all building information modelers to source &... Read More
Speed Changes Everything
Everyday we want something done faster, or as you'll sometimes hear "we need it by yesterday".This is why BIM is growing so rapidly, it speeds the construction and documentation process up, streamlining everything, so that is can be delivered fast. With the recent C... Read More