Is it time to stop trying to perfect your BIM setup? In my latest TRXL Podcast episode, Martyn Day and I spent some time digging into this. He's been covering this industry for 37 years as the publisher of AEC Magazine. His framing: firms spending enormous energy refining BIM 1.0 workflows are polishing something that's already been made obsolete. Not in five years. Now. BIM is becoming a drawing conduit. The real work is happening outside Revit, in tools that can't run inside it, and being pumped back in just to produce output. Tools like Arcol, Hypar, Motif, Snaptrude, TestFit, and many others. The firms that understand this are already rethinking their entire stack, hosting their own project data, and building bespoke tools on open SDKs. The ones that don't are going to spend the next two years optimizing themselves into a corner. If you're a BIM manager, technology director, or firm leader trying to figure out where to put your energy right now, this episode's for you. 👉 Listen wherever you get your podcasts or follow the link in the comments. #AECtech #Architecture #DesignTechnology #TRXL
This really resonates. BIM is crucial, but it’s not the whole story, especially once you need to coordinate decisions, revisions and responsibilities across the entire project. That’s exactly the gap we’re trying to solve with a project‑centric layer that connects models, specs, tasks and site data in one place. Our users are keeping their BIM model light and everything else is in the specifications. Go ahead and check it out, if you find this interesting 👉 https://bit.ly/4j8UA16
Thanks for holding this conversation, Evan. It's one everyone in our industry should be having.
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