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)
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| A single PDF with extract from specification and model |
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| The system outline clause from NBS Create |
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| Rotate, spin, pan and zoom the model extract without additional software |
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| Embed pre-defined views to communicate your message |
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| Interrogate the data in the model |
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| 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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