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New release: v0.8

December 22 2009  |   Léon van Berlo  |  Blog, News  |  Comments Off

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
  • geolocate projects
  • improved multi user support
  • improved web-user-interface
  • google earth network link
  • smart revision management
  • extended query and filter options
  • more details on your revision
  • checkout/update warnings (while concurrent engineering)
  • enhanced read only access
  • enhanced user rights management
  • change finder on revisions
  • export of CityGML, Collada, KML, IFC properties, O3D
  • reference implementation of the CityGML ADE for IFC and BIM
  • get a summary of your model
  • and a lot more….

Some of these features are a direct result of the successful BIMserver Breakfast in November at TNO; some come from the intense contact with some of our users. 
This release of the open source bimserver software is, without a doubt, the ‘best bimserver ever’. The team doesn’t stop developing and new plans are already being deployed.
The latest release is now available for download at download.bimserver.org. The demoserver (which was offline during the final stage of development) is back online as well. Check it out on demo.bimserver.org.

Together with the new software, the team also launches their new website. Because our software is stable and professional, our site also needed a more professional layout.
With this new software-release and the new website the bimserver.org-team and it’s users are ready for the future.

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New feature, new release date

December 17 2009  |   Léon van Berlo  |  Blog  |  Comments Off

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 a downside. In this case the downside is that things we are not as passionate about will fall behind on the cool stuff.
For the open source bimserver software this means that we are looking at implementing O3D visualization in the new release, but because we are passionate about this, the given release date of December 18th will not be made.
Our families decided that it would be good for us to stay home for Christmas and not work with anything that has the word ‘java’ in it (except for the coffee of course). This means that we will (for sure) release a new version of the bimserver.org software before Christmas (central European time) and hope to have all the new features like O3D in it.
So to be short: we won’t make December 18th, but the waiting won’t be long and we will give you extra stuff in return.

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