01 BlenderBIM, IFC, and the importance of Open BIM with Dion Moult

👇Links to communities below. In this first episode of UH Studio Academy Podcasts, I talk with Dion Moult, creator of BlenderBIM. We discuss how design tools plug into the large picture of AEC, and the essential need for open formats such as IFC for the project's design, construction, and facility managment lifecycle. Make sure you check out part 2 for a hands-on

Dion Moult is trained as an architect in Sydney, Australia and works as an Emerging Design Engineer Manager at Lendlease with exposure to the whole design and construction process. Lendlease is one of the largest construction, developer, and investor companies.

BlenderBIM is part of IFC OpenShell and handles IFC data natively within Blender. It is coded in such a way that most of the code can be incorporated into other potential apps.

BlenderBIM can be used to analyse, edit, and produce IFC models. It is very fast in my tests, opening up an IFC model exported from Revit in a fraction of the time.

👉 Check out ‪@OSArchOrg‬ Open Source architecture, a community for all things related to architecture, design, open software, and open formats at https://osarch.org and https://community.osarch.org

👉 BlenderBIM - https://blenderbim.org/. Note that the actual addon is part of IFC OpenShell

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Chapters
00:00 Intro and Dion's story
05:05 Reivt's Role in AEC beyond architecture
15:49 BlenderBIM's story
21:56 Is IFC a live format?
25:46 BlenderBIM roadmap
29:02 AEC industry silos and how to move beyond them
31:37 Reivt, open letters and how to steer away?
43:12 What if IFC technically? A file type or a spec?
45:47 What is IFC Open Shell
49:48 Relationship between IFC, IFC OpenShell, and BlenderBIM
55:00 Challenges to developing BlenderBIM
58:40 Necessary fundamentals of new BIM software?