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As you guys know, the BIMserver team works very close with the guys from TNO in the Netherlands. A year ago this resulted in a special client side IFC viewer with an ‘open from server’  button. In the 0.8 release we integrated the IFC Engine DLL that makes it possible for the BIMserver to export [...]

Getting to know the BIMserver: introductions and details….
BIMserver.org is an open source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit Building Information Models. Designed for interoperability, it publishes BIM data using open standards.
When you are a professional in the AEC industry and you want just a bit of extra attention beside [...]

Since the release of the 0.8 version of our software, we manage to get a wider user-group. More and more people download and use the software. The demoserver also gets more users every day. To give you an idea about where our users come from we plotted this map from the statistics engine.
As you can see, [...]

The launch of the 0.8 version of the open source BIMserver could be called a huge success. But the team is sensitive about the userfeedback. Some users gave great feedback on the 0.8 version. The BIMserver.org development team is now working on some small features and fixes that mainly focus on the usability. Ajax technology [...]

BIMserver.org: new release, new site, new features!
The open source BIMserver just released a new stable version of their software. The new release is the 0.8 version. A lot has changed since the 0.1 version in March this year. Just some of the new features:

25% speed increase
concept of sub-projects
improved automatic merging
RSS change notification
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This week the development team of bimserver.org found out that we are all passionate about our jobs. That’s not really a surprise (or we wouldn’t make this software open source) and it gives a lot of valuable opportunities like having fun at what you do.
But as all good things in life it also has [...]

The BIMserver version 0.8 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) is online for download. It is still without documentation, but the installation is about the same as the 0.1 version. When you want some (Dutch) documentation or info on the new features you can have a look at breakfast.bimserver.org. The release date for the 0.8 stable [...]

The BIMserver breakfast last week was a great success. Around 60 users came to TNO in Delft (the Netherlands) to test the new features. They spent a few hours each and found two bugs in total. A nice complement for the developers!
The development team is finding solutions to fix the bugs these days.
You also gave [...]

The BIMserver.org development-team is working night-shifts to get ready in time for the 2009 BIMserver-breakfast. The sourcecode is rapidly changing every day. The BIMserver software is transforming to a completely new architecture. The merging capabilities will become more in the core of the architecture (in stead of ‘just’ a feature) and the ‘difference finder’ is [...]

As part of a PhD research, Saskia Gabriël is conducting an anonymous survey to identify what is lacking and what can be improved in the future development and implementation of BIM. You can access the survey at this link.
First of all,  we kindly ask you to take the survey and secondly, I would like [...]

These days all the open source GIS nerds are attending the FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial information) congress in Sydney Australia. Because the BIM world and the GIS world are starting to overlap each other, BIMserver.org was also present at this conference. We made a contribution by presenting the CityGML extension for [...]

BIMserver.org would like to show of some new features. We will do this in a ‘BIMserver Breakfast’ in November. Unfortunately the invitations are only in Dutch. For those who can read Dutch see below; for those who will only read English, be aware that this event is taking place in the Netherlands and all people [...]

Do you like our open source bimserver software? Then tell us what we should do to make you love us!
You can send a feature request by filling in the form on our sourceforge site. If that’s too difficult, please give a comment on this post, or just mail please.get.me.this.feature@bimserver.org
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The world of BIM is getting more and more about buildings in a surrounding instead of just one building. The world of GIS is getting more and more about 3D objects and making the breach above the surface. These two worlds are getting closer to each other. The first part where these two worlds meet [...]

The open geospatial consortium and the BuildingSMART alliance have put the results of a ‘testbed’ online. In the testbed the teams discovered that areas of the IFC model are not as amenable to interoperability as once thought, and modernization is believed necessary.
A quote from their press release:
“The teams discovered that areas of the [...]

Nine Dutch companies have finished a innovative project using the bimserver. The companies have gained insight in the development and advanced usage of the open source bimserver software. The nine companies are (mainly) software companies serving the AEC industry in the Netherlands. All of them are on the top of the market in their own [...]

As some of you might know the Netherlands organisation for applied scientific research TNO is one of the organisations behind the development of this open source bimserver. They are also the developers of the fastest IFC render engine in the world: the IFC engine series.
But the innovation doesn’t stop… Today a press release will be [...]

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In October this year the next FOSS4G conference will be organized in Sydney. The community behind the open source BIMserver has provided two abstracts for presentations. Both abstracts are about the next generation implementation of the BIMserver features. Because the topic of FOSS4G is geographic information systems (GIS) both abstracts we provided are about the link [...]

Today the thesis of Jakob Beetz came in our mailbox. As some of you might know Jakob is the most important contributor of the BIMserver.org architecture as we use it today.  His book, called “Facilitating distributed collaboration in the AEC/FM sector using Semantic Web Technologies”, gives a clear inside in the future of web based [...]

It’s been quiet for a while on this website. That’s because we’ve been working hard on new features of the bimserver.
Two big surprises are on the roll to be released very shortly. One of them is the new license model for the well known IFC Engine. As many of you might know the IFC Engine [...]

As some of you might have noticed a few weeks ago we had a call for private beta on a RevitPlugin to smoothly connect to a bimserver distribution. Well…. seems like the plugin didn’t have a single bug. It works without bugs at all!. But nobody liked it because it doesn’t work as it should be.
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You might have heard from the buzz that we have developed a Revit plugin for the open source bimserver. Actually it is a bimserver plugin for Revit. The plugin gives you a button in Revit to send and/or receive a model to and from a bimserver installation. The plugin is in a beta fase and [...]

Finally its there! For those who do not have the right admin-permission (or just do not have the patience) to install the open source bimserver on their own pc, we have installed it on one of our own servers. This ‘demoserver‘ on http://demo.bimserver.org gives you he possibility to test the very latest version of the [...]

It might be hard to keep track of all the info surrounding this project. When you want to learn more about this open source project, there are several ways to do so. As every open source project this one also has mailinglists. This is probably the best and fastest way to get an answer on [...]