Lobbyist Wars and the Development of BIM. Part 3: Fathers of BIM Technologies. Who is behind the success of Autodesk and openBIM?

In this article, we will highlight the work of all the major fathers of BIM technology, who developed CAD tools in the 80s and 90s. We will also analyze who is behind the success of buildingSMART and corporations such as the Nemetschek Group and Autodesk and why the old Autodesk programmers did not like the Revit developers, and the Nemetschek company refused to develop the IFC format.





The main events tree will help you follow the information in this part. This diagram wants to show that small ideas and developments were transferred from one development group to another, where, after a new reading, they turned into CAD programs that are used by designers around the world today. The starting point in the scheme was taken from technical universities, from which future CAD tool developers emerged. In the course of the article, separate parts of this scheme will be analyzed. 





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