This month, Graphisoft, the developers of BIM software Archicad, announced that The Architect’s Newspaper had recognized BIMx with Apple Vision Pro for its 2024 Best of Products Award.
BIMx Wins Again!
BIMx began as an iOS mobile app with groundbreaking UI features that are still unmatched today. BIMx serves as a bridge between the architectural design studio and the construction site and enables design and construction professionals to both collaborate and communicate throughout the project lifecycle.
BIMx plus Apple Vision Pro won the 2024 Best of Products Award from The Architect’s Newspaper.
When combined with the Apple Vision Pro, BIMx empowers a virtual reality user experience (UX) inside the Vision Pro using that device’s industry-leading XR features. Whether client, architect, or general contractor, BIMx running on the Vision Pro helps them visualize a project and review information in the BIM model through the experience.
“In today‘s dynamic construction and design landscape, architects and designers who embrace digital transformation can streamline workflows and reduce environmental impacts,” said Márton Kiss, Vice President of Product Success at Graphisoft. “BIMx with Apple Vision Pro dynamically presents 3D models, including all necessary metadata, and revolutionizes how projects are visualized and managed.”
“BIMx is really nice. It’s a very seamless user interface where you have your BIM model, and then you also have the drawing set overlaid onto it so you can navigate your entire drawing set through the model and pull up details,” said Andre Herrero, jury member, and Founding Principal of Charlap Hyman & Herrero. “Integrating that into an experiential thing like Vision Pro is really nice for clients and contractors on site. I totally support this.”
Model Streaming Technology
The award-winning app has been elevated in recent updates, including utilizing new streaming model technology that gives users the power to stream even massive models quite effortlessly. Also new in recent BIMx updates are new features that enable precise sun positioning for truly accurate sun-shade shadow analyses.
BIMx’s landmark unique feature is its ability to overlay the 2D drawings that are created in Archicad with the 3D BIM model itself in a way that allows the user to see them together, thus lifting one’s ability to understand the building more fully. This is especially impressive in building sections. (see image below).
The award-winning BIM software that bridges the studio and the construction site.
BIMx manages to merge together the best aspects of mobile tools in two categories—those that excelled at bringing 2D construction drawing sets into the field on mobile devices and those rare mobile apps that actually excel at allowing users to navigate complex 3d BIM models.