BIM isn’t implemented right on many levels and everyone has their own standard.

Everyone is BIM ready but it’s right now a solution waiting for a problem in my honest opinion.

I’ve been following the “BIM” movement as an outside observer - a rough TLDR is it’s essentially devops for constructions - bringing architects and planners and builders together using software.

I highly recommend the YouTube channel “B1M” if you’re interested in the topic! There are some massive companies (bluebeam) behind these massive software systems - which us web tech folks rarely hear about.

The comparison to devops is an interesting one, but for it to work you really have to transport yourself into the absolute most stale kind of enterprise development you can think of, where software architects feel too proud to do any coding at all and where coders throw stuff over the wall to the sysadmins, who will complain about how it's impossible to deploy or get reasonable performance out of which the coders will ignore because the sysadmins are just whiny BOFHs.

The norm in building architecture still seems to be "We just draw stuff, it's someone else's job to build it, don't care if I'm making their life hard or their work expensive." Glad to see that's changing.

I have worked in architecture and engineering, in various roles from CAD operator to design engineer and project management. I've worked on small buildings I would call 'small equipment shops' to 40 storey residential buildings, large traffic bridges, schools, hotels, etc.

I cannot for the life of me understand what bluebeam does that's worth its per user costs. I've worked with companies that wanted me to pay hundreds of dollars per user for the ability to mark up PDFs...when I can just mark up the PDFs without bluebeam.

Massively overpriced nonsense as far as I can tell.

It is also deliberately different to exchange files used for mechanical CAD, even though it uses the same syntax.