After decades of being dominated by 2D CAD technology, the recent push to promote 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology promises to substantially raise the state of the art in the AEC industry, and, at the same time, alter it radically. This could be the start of the end of dedicated drafting and general-purpose modeling and visualization programs.
These are exciting times in the AEC technology industry. After decades of being dominated by 2D CAD technology that reduces building representations to dumb graphic entities, the industry is seriously considering 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology, which represents intelligent building objects that are ...