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The BIMserver.org development team always gets a lot of questions like ‘can I link pdfs to IFC objects?’ or ‘is there a way to create a workflow in the BIMserver?’ We strongly believe that the open source BIMserver is a BIMserver in its core and should stay that way. We kindly reject all feature requests [...]

The BIMserver Breakfast yesterday in Utrecht (the Netherlands) was a big success. Site statistics showed that 183 unique visitors were at the breakfast.bimserver.org website. 121 of them did that from the venue site in Utrecht. Looking at the map of Google analytics, Utrecht seemed to be the center of the BIMserver-world yesterday. Every attendant had [...]

Cloudcomputing is become more and more a trend. The AEC industry also found the benefits of web applications in the cloud. The open source BIMserver is also available for cloudcomputing. TNO has tested this a few months ago (which let into the use of a cloudserver for the BIMcaseweek). Recent tests have shown that BIMserver [...]

There are many questions from the scientific world about the innovations in the open source BIMserver. As most of you know, the core of the BIMserver.org team consist of the Eindhoven University of  Technology (TU/e) and the Netherlands organisation for applied scientific research TNO. Both of these institutes collaborated on a scientific paper for the “10th [...]

For those of you who think we fell asleep: we didn’t. We are working hard on the first 1.0 release candidate. Last week a group of our most valued users have received a private beta of the 1.0 release. They gave us some great feedback on which we are working right now. We plan to [...]

The official BIMserver.org factsheet seems to be very popular. To serve users as best as possible there are now three languages available: English, German and Dutch. You can volunteer translating other languages. Send an e-mail to translate@bimserver.org to help out. Have fun reading the factsheets!

Just a short notice: the BIMserver breakfast of 2010 will be on September 1st. After the successes of the previous BIMserver breakfasts we intent to expand this year. The concept is simple: al attendees get together to try out the BIMserver software, share ideas, find bugs, or anything else related to BIM and the open [...]

Returning readers of this blog have noticed the start of a BIMserver Pilot 2010 in the Netherlands. This bimserver pilot is not limited to just the open source BIMserver, but it will probably have a strong focus. The kickoff meeting of the pilot has taking place at TNO. During this meeting quite a large number [...]

We get a lot of questions about the BIMserver software. Most of them are really good questions. Most of the answers can be found on the website (or by simply using the software itself). Because the audience is growing and more and more people would like to have a factsheet about the BIMserver, we decided [...]

We plan the new BIMserver software release as the 1.0 version. We hope to get this 1.0 version before the summer. Some of you already saw some new features in the demo-server or the source code. For other users, just some new features that will be in 1.0: Advanced queries and rules (‘get me all [...]

The geeks and nerds at BIMserver.org have a huge interested in new developments. Most of us have already used the new Apple iPad just to try it out. The last few weeks we get a lot of press releases from softwaretools that claim the ‘now work on the iPad’. We believe we can not stay [...]

The development team was speeding up real nice the last couple of weeks. The core of the software changed and updated again to new technology. The development team always has strong focus on the core of the software, instead of adding cool features without thinking them through. The last couple of weeks a few core [...]

The BIMserver.org development team is gaining speed. We are running fast at the moment. Peter is working on the transition from JNative to JNA to make sure everything also works on 64bits machines. Pim is doing a great job on the IFC Clashdetection and working on making the IFC Engine DLL to handle streaming data. [...]

The BIMserver.org software is used this week in the Dutch BIMCaseweek. The week (which only lasts for 4 days) started today. Two teams use the BIMserver software. TNO has provided a cloudserver with 16 Gb internal RAM memory to handle the big models. The teams use the modelserver software for backup, revision management and of [...]

As you guys know, we just released the 0.8.1 version. For the 0.9 release the main attraction will be the integrated clash detection. Also other features will be very useful for the next release. However, the development team decided that this is the time to look at the core again. After every release we checked [...]

The open source BIMserver seeks publicity in the Netherlands next week. Most of our users are outside of the Netherlands, while most of the development is done by Dutch guys. That is why we get away from our computerscreens and try to connect to real people next week (of course accompanied by coffee). We will [...]

BIMserver.org: 0.8.1 usability release. The open source BIMserver just released a new stable version of the software. The new release is the 0.8.1 version. This release should be a ‘usability update’ so the interface will be (even)  more user friendly. However, during development we decided to integrate some major changes in the core of the architecture. [...]

The Netherlands organisation for applied scientific research TNO and the Eindhoven University of Technology just released a call for participation (Dutch PDF) on a BIM modelserver pilot project. The open source BIMserver project will become a core element of the pilot. The pilotproject has a strong focus on the Dutch AEC industry, but is also [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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