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IFC4 has been finalized, and it is officially released

After over 6 years of development and over 1100 issues being resolved, on 12. March 2013 buildingSMART international has finally released the new generation of IFC schemas - IFC4. It will now be the basis of future work of establishing new open BIM enabled work flows by defining new IFC4 based model view definitions. The official IFC4 release includes both the IFC4 EXPRESS schema to support current STEP-based IFC exchanges, and the ifcXML4 XSD schema to support new simple ifcXML transactions.
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VEO is here

Finally we can check it out

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http://www.m-six.com/index

and see you here

http://www.m-six.com/forum

VEO is coming ... public launch is imminent

The current release date is February 6, 2013..

http://veonews.blogspot.com.au/2013/02/veo-is-coming-public-launch-is-imminent.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+VeoNews+%28VEO+News%29

“Free COBie in the Cloud” module: COBie Basic

EcoDomus, is releasing a free version of its EcoDomus PM online software application called EcoDomus COBie Basic, which will help design and construction teams simplify the COBie deliverable process.
The EcoDomus COBie Basic software functionality enables:
• Data export from Autodesk Revit to a secure online database
• Online data entry and editing for all COBie entities (“worksheets”)
• Uploading and attaching documents to BIM objects
• Import and export of COBie Excel files
EcoDomus releases “Free COBie in the Cloud” module: COBie Basic
COBie Basic - EcoDomus /

Autodesk and M-SIX have partnered! Revit and VEO

Something to get excited about

Veo will get online; and Autodesk is buying in: Wonder if Phil had to go to Canossa.

After six years of Research and Development, M-SIX's VEO™ Platform will launch January 31, 2013.

M-SIX recently closed a Series A investment round led by Autodesk®, a global leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software. This investment has provided M-SIX with the resources needed to scale up our team and operations prior to launch.

M-SIX Announces Partnerships and VEO™ Launch Date

http://www.m-six.com/Announcements.html

http://revitworx.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/newforma-licenses-m-six-veotm-platform.html

New COBie Toolkit for Revit

Autodesk now provides a COBie Toolkit

The COBie Toolkit produces COBie v2 deliverables in conjunction with a Revit model
Installs into new and existing Revit project models

• Creates Revit parameters for objects that need to track COBie data fields

•  Contains an update macro that can keep parameters in sync with a set of standard COBie fields

• Provides export capabilities to a COBie formatted text file for intake into a MS Excel COBie spreadsheet objects that need to track COBie data fields

• Contains an update macro that can keep parameters in sync with a set of standard COBie fields

• Provides export capabilities to a COBie formatted text file for intake into a MS Excel COBie spreadsheet

      http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk

IFC where it all started 1994 - 2012

What happened
Why does this great Idea of IFC remind me of Linux, Open GL, World peace....
Watch this promotional Video from 1994  its 18 years now what happened...
better what didn’t
Would IFC have truly happened with a capitalistic concept driving it.
Enjoy the video of a truly great idea from 18 years ago.

IFC - Where it all started - The End of Babel - Part 1/2