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I agree... it's like a running gag...

 

When I begun Architects did not want to share their CAD files for bidding. They just send their paper drawings (boxes of) by post delivery for 2 main reasons :

  1. they do not want to share the blocks they paid for (manhours).
  2. they do not want that someone cheat and send one of their drawing modified but with the same titleblock/revision.

So Adesk invented DWF as an answer... but it was too complicated for them and they send us scanned PDFs that were skewed, waved, miscontrasted and not snappable or convertible to CAD lines. 10 years was needed to finally get vector PDFs and sometimes DWFs ! :cara_con_una_leve_sonrisa: Great.... but now we're on Revit and cannot use PDFs as background ! :cara_de_decepción:

 

Of course, now that Revit become a standard, they don't want to share their Revit models for the exact same reason and send us DWGs (generated from Revit... so they don't mind anymore) and when we're lucky IFCs or NWDs.

 

 

I know these NWDs and IFCs should be THE transfer format, but sincerely, when bidding and proposing project alternatives as main contractor, it's really not workable solution since IFC 4.0 DTV is not yet there and we're loosing all the BIM intelligence there !

 

If revit would provide a way to granularilly password-protect parameters, families or models, no one would have a (good) reason not share a model. I think too that those 2 little lines of code would really push the market to a smother collaboration at least between Revit workers.