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by mvaerle
6217 days ago
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I think the title (and article) is a little over the top. The audit trail is a nice feature but the rest is just sharing files? The real problems are in annotating these drawings collaboratively, merging separate parts and layers of buildings and in general managing the actual flow of information in a design process instead of merely the drawings. Solutions with versioning IFC files, IFD libraries and solving the problems in this area are far more important (and complicated unfortunately). Think like: Which parts of the building were modified in the last version by the architects and how does that influence the building costs? Is the old construction still valid and if not which parts cause conflicts, etc... EDIT: I forgot to mention that the innovation that woobius does on the user interface side is really great and that they managed to get featured on techcrunch is also great to get more attention to this topic, so all the good to them! |
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With respect to the body of your comment. The reason Woobius is useful to architects and engineers is that it fits into their existing workflow - e.g. they produce a 2D drawing that forms part of their legal documentation. While this process is (for all intent and purposes), basic, it's often neglected. Being practicing architects ourselves, we realised that by making this easy and efficient, our collaboration cost can be dramatically reduced.
I believe that once we have achieved this first step, we can start to tackle the more complex issue of allowing collaborative annotation on drawings themselves. Hopefully, by which time we would be in position to annotate a 3D model even!