Getting BIM models to the field has been an ongoing struggle in the industry, with many ambitious stabs at cramming a whole BIM model onto a smartphone. But that focus has been all wrong, says Jukka Muhonen, head of production at Tridify, whose firm’s BIM viewer is targeting ease-of-use.
“The difference is that we use the BIM not to just show you everything, but we can show you just the part you want,” he explains. “We can show you the entire building or a single apartment. There’s no prep work involved, you just push the data to us and we show the model.” Tridify’s cloud-based BIM viewer works off the widely used IFC file format and doesn’t need a tailored BIM file for VR or mobile.