Every now and again I see something interesting and want to blog about it...
Exhibiting opposite us at
BIM Show Live this year was a company called
Bluebeam. One feature of their software is to perform 3D extracts from a model and put these into interactive PDFs.
Sasha Reed (
@alohasasha) from Bluebeam and I were chatting about how this could work in terms of exporting information from a specification and model and combining into a single PDF. The result would be a single output interactively showing the data that you wish to express in 3D. The big advantage being that the end user would be able to view all of this in a PDF viewer without installing any other specialist BIM software.
I could imagine that this would be useful in a number of situations, for example when demonstrating design and specification intent to a client or when issuing Architects Instructions where you clearly want to show what has been revised in an interactive format.
Anyway - some pictures and a PDF download below...
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Download the PDF and have a play
(
note - requires either the
Bluebeam PDF viewer or Adobe Reader - it doesn't work in the native Google Chrome PDF viewer or hand held device)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAXYKyxvDgYOvAuP-VEyh03NsIhy8Nt9-SU-ZYg_EUbVHAxr6AYkY_g2jKhqVICKyO_6W078sUelHfQMLKCGT6ZnaWPfcSGeOma5kHL5xGw2PPqAc3BkKsh-szwU6-cjMjZOU2Hj01uGF2/s1600/000.jpg) |
A single PDF with extract from specification and model |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7r9qG6dfUBzsmr8l8cVOamb0M7HgsOsLZBINMW11NhGwq-xi33sUoeR11BVDM2OPX1k_a9SWa8wTcj9os6fVt7xk8FtHIdRKybc6eSHQbm6_FhlNWtAIvHaFEQGDzOv6Go1Gx0Uo3Jatd/s1600/001.jpg) |
The system outline clause from NBS Create |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9bL6fqKzEcE8CWICOixz_iEJ6rmuccA82qBSlSIx5TC12oIjiLL5TWf1Wj0c2yYBEKpIfu98DijcRHFXZq09kephI2JqzvRjdcX0Z8_bVY9cPzRSQXhIxRn7AAp4rwV_Oj6XFOkUJGuTV/s1600/002.jpg) |
Rotate, spin, pan and zoom the model extract without additional software |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBJcgMZXJo0At0XOk1-rYI6bReL-jK4TVdDtDsToHQGbOZi2NcEPXlMaFNeJv7L9Te09dDrrJK8gHfqBeWNq1fr9gRFFqetD0AEEo2EMohdjyZI4bsxgz5zHIHxxleylg8NzBhFBx8vTyj/s1600/003.jpg) |
Embed pre-defined views to communicate your message |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcp80glVFa82r-4EZDJglRW4JoVYZFbmybJhGdJphTumCgf3Hdw2uVQzSltLnI9wlotKs8MuDYx9EDxow8BuGlRm-TCSVDwueTAGjpo_BoykZsOX9EBBoSIo7w7UYuTS_cPQUeLlFWNrAt/s1600/004.jpg) |
Interrogate the data in the model |
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb4i2Tn1yaiWQHsWEI0cDj5ZiVKWMaxiiX7fx6sTIc0z9m3El05RluA-AC9Zkwq-rL9iOqjc5mMTxxrg415ovI55nxhyfbXWCssQBxGcMrRQR73_HZS12opXSDbnbvyRORrQe3zptTLVmD/s1600/005.jpg) |
Change the visualisation options |
If anyone is interested in this technology - please drop Sasha a tweet - I'm sure she'd be pleased to hear from you -
@alohasasha
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