Doing the work myself for years building models, and construction drawings driven from the models, gave me the insight that this fusion is essential; it’s happening anyway in your mind even if software doesn’t assist you with it. Since 2016 I’ve spent a lot of effort imagining how this evolves next and I believe I’m…

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Is everyone exasperated by BIM, or finally indifferent, even people who evangelize it? BIM has become perceived as reserved for a minority of experts with little practical benefit against the cost of implementation. Just today, an architect I spoke to openly admitted: “BIM is the most boring bit of project delivery to me.” It is…

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The TGN rigs I propose (or IFRs, Interpretive Focus Rigs, whatever we call them) include multiple I/O nodes providing a coherent facility for capturing data from many sources and presenting them together in ways that solve THIS problem: — the requirement in all modeled environments for a standardizable FORM of ENGAGEMENT with models that builds…

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Here’s a peek at the future form of visual engagement with digital models of all kinds, the future of attentive focus, and the future of technical drawing. A new TGN demo. Note the controlled visual interplay, the introspection at multiple levels (side to side, and between model and overlay). After the demo stops you can…

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Dive in (!) to digital models. But what is your form of engagement with them, once you’re in? https://tangerinefocus.com/2022/06/08/the-form-of-engagement/   TGN: next generation user interactions within modeled worlds give users the power to create, clarify, and share, their own expressions of articulated focused attention, within models. [Tangerine] Makes Insight Tangible, both for humans, and for…

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TGN will make digital worlds more effective, useful, and engaging for architects, engineers, builders, and facility occupants and operators.  At a minimum, TGN is aimed at making (all) models more engaging, more intelligible, more clarifying, and therefore easier to use, and more useful to use, less tedious to use, more fun to use. More interesting…

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10 years ago this month, May 2012, the team I led released automatic drawing-model fusion. It was my idea to build it, and I had the good fortune to be hired at a company that agreed it should be done. That was MicroStation. 10 years ago. I said at the time that this fusion of…

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Some ideas are, yes, idiotic. Even some that are oft-repeated conventional wisdom. Wikipedia (05/08/2015 revision) defines “idiot”: An idiot (…) is someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way.  https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Idiot&oldid=674691100 An idiotic idea, then, produces self-defeat or significant counterproductivity. Perhaps I’m an idiot. Or, yes, I am. I’ve acted in self-defeating and counterproductive ways…

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This is happening: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6909623002003365888/ It continues a trend started in 2012. Automated fusion of technical drawings presented at their true orientation inside digital models has been developed in some apps and platforms over the last 10 years. But those solutions remain mostly siloed in those apps, gaps remain, and important improvements are yet to come.…

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