BIM objects Blog Posts
Noritz Tankless Water Heaters now on Modlar!
For over 60 years, Noritz has been a leader and innovator in the water heating industry. In 1981, the manufacturer introduced the first electronically-controlled tankless water heater, and they have remained at the forefront among consumers through energy savings an... 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
Marketing Your BIM Content - Part One
What are the best ways for manufacturers to market their BIM objects? This 2 part blog will try to answer this question by showing you the best ways to market your BIM objects. Lets start by discussing the two main ways how customers download your BIM objects: Profe... Read More
Christmas presents from BIMstop
Season's Greetings from BIMstop! 2012 is fast coming to an end, it's been an exciting and busy year for us at BIMstop. Thanks to everyone for all of the support over the last year and we look forward to working with everyone in 2013. We have some exciting announceme... Read More
10 popular BIM questions from the last 30 days
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a technical topic. Luckily we have such a great network of BIM experts ready to answer any questions or problems you may be having. Also whether your passionate about BIM or an expert Revit user, feel free to contribute to the... Read More
Rendering BIM objects
Although the main focus of having BIM components or objects is for documentation. When built correctly, BIM components do render up very nicely. This makes them great for presentations to clients and developers, saving you a lot of time and helping the clients to bu... 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 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
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
BIM quote of the week from Todd Lewis
"When we are designing a building, we have very specific ideas about the look we are going for. BIM software has made it possible for us to now see on our screens exactly what the end result is going to look like. When looking for products and/or materials to use in... 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.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
ArchiCAD Objects, Available from Cadimage World
We've recently been working on some exciting objects for ArchiCADselect customers, these will soon be available for download from our friends at Cadimageworld.comThey have all been built to work with ArchiCAD version 13 and higher. If anybody has any ideas for new o... Read More
BIM Content On Demand - Testimony
Occasionally we do something slightly different & get commissioned to build BIM content for Architects to use in-house. This is a big help for the architects as it helps to speed up their building information process, saving both time & money.Below is a test... Read More
BIM Content Shouldn't Be An Add-on Service
More & more we are seeing companies that run "building product directories" adding BIM (building information modeling) content as an add-on service for their already advertising clients, this in a lot of ways makes sense, as it helps to promote BIM & helps m... Read More
What BIM Means For Doors
At the moment we are working with two doors manufacturers to bring their products to BIM (building information modeling), for both the ArchiCAD and Revit formats.Maybe your company manufacturers doors & you're looking for a new way to market them to architects &... Read More
BIM & Concrete Products
Concrete products are huge part of all buildings now days. Not so surprisingly they can also benefit hugely from being integrated into BIM!If your company manufacturers any of the following products you should start thinking about getting them into a BIM format such... Read More
BIM & Beam Manufacturers
At the moment we are building some BIM content for ProWood NZ who manufacturer engineered timber beams. BIM provides a huge oppotunity for beam or "structure" manufacturers to get their products into a project early and become more apart of the design team.When putt... Read More
Autodesk Revit Door Families
Here are a couple of images of some recent door families we have been building for a client, for use with Autodesk Revit. Door families (and door & window BIM content in general) are quite difficult to build as they often have a lot of parameters & setting b... Read More
Covering all of the BIM bases.
We are finding more & more manufacturers are coming to us for Revit families of their products. It is great to see them embracing BIM (building information modeling) & we are happy to help create the families for them. As well as help distribute the finished... Read More
Take our BIM objects for a spin!
A question we get asked often by clients is: "How can we see/try out our new BIM objects?"When investing in BIM content for your companies product it is often hard to see what you are getting. Your customers (Architects, Engineers & Technicians etc) will love th... Read More
Barrington Arch on BIM
We recently helped write an article for the NZ Construction News magazine. It's a simple article to try and help educate more people on Building Information Modeling and how it effect them & their companies.Below is the Article which will appear in the July 09 e... Read More
Explain better with 3D
3D BIM models help stream line the building process. The building process is often very confusing and difficult to get your head around. Barrington Arch works with clients big & small to help better communicate their design ideas & planning information.The... Read More
Generate qualified leads, with BIM
Many of our clients are finding that their BIM objects are becoming their new top salesmen & a great source of qualified lead sales leads.Quite simply this is because your information is being put in front of the people that matter when they need it! Rather than... Read More
What is BIM and how does it affect me?
What is BIM? How does BIM affect me?These are two question that we get asked all of the time. (BIM) Building Information Modeling affects manufactures, architects, designers, engineers, contractors & developers.We put together a very useful diagram that helps to... Read More