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Anybody using BIM is familiar with BIMobjects. They serve two main purposes - to provide architects and designers with a valuable library of building elements which they can use in their designs, and a vehicle for manufacturers to present their products in a digital catalogue to prospective users.

BIMobject, the company, has taken the ball and is running with it, providing the construction industry with a cloud based Portal to access a library of BIM objects, and offering manufacturers full development, maintenance and syndication of their products, stored as BIMobjects. These are channelled into BIM applications from leading construction software vendors, delivering them directly into an architect's BIM workflow.

Nemetschek Vectorworks announced recently that it has signed a cooperation agreement with BIMobject AB to support each other's BIM technology, enhancing the design capabilities of users of Vectorworks software worldwide.

As part of the agreement, BIMobject will host Vectorworks native file formats in its cloud-based web portal. In addition, BIMobject and Nemetschek Vectorworks will assist manufacturers with developing BIMobjects for Vectorworks software.

There are more than half a million Vectorworks users around the world. This represents a significant community of architects joining the BIMobject Cloud platform. As a first step, BIMobject and Nemetschek Vectorworks will together build up an initial set of manufacturers objects, starting with pre-existing BIMobject content, all of which will be available and distributed by Vectorworks through a multivendor private cloud, offered with the support of BIMobject Cloud solutions. Future plans include developing tighter integration and enhanced collaboration between Vectorworks software and BIMobject's cloud platform.

Commenting on the agreement, Stefan Larsson, CEO and Founder of BIMobject stated, "This partnership is meaningful as we've seen a huge demand from Vectorworks users over the last year for content from our BIMobject Cloud portfolio. For our building product manufacturers, this completes our offering across BIM platforms and delivers a significant user base dedicated to the Vectorworks platform that will benefit in additional business and customer satisfaction."

BIMOBJECT ADVANTAGES
Besides providing a more advanced design environment, BIM models can be used for estimations, BOMs and other purposes, created automatically from door, window and other equipment schedules, or they can provide a basis for more advanced calculations, energy usage simulations and environmental efficiency. This requires greater and more accurate information to be included with the objects.

Accordingly, BIMobject's Cloud holds all BIMobject information and BIM files about products from real manufacturers, now available for Vectorworks users in native Vectorworks format - completely free to download and use. All you have to do is register at bimobject.com

MANUFACTURERS SUPPORT
BIMobject comes with numerous facilities for manfacturers, such as BIMobject Open property Cloud (BOPC), where they can add properties and classification systems to their catalogues of objects. BIMobject Hercules enables them to develop and publish their own BIM objects in a controlled way to protect proprietary design data, whilst BIMobject Mosquito allows anyone with a license to create BIM objects directly in the Cloud platform. BIMscript and LENA are designed to streamline the process of BIM content creation by delivering an open and freely available scripting language and a BIM object authoring solution.

This is all good news for Vectorworks users, according to Robert Anderson. "We joined forces with BIMobject to deliver a streamlined way for Vectorworks designers to access up-to-date, manufacturer-approved BIM content," said Robert, VP of integrated practice at Vectorworks.
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