Im really disappointed that Autodesk let BIMobject launch when it is so obviously flawed. The company has a very clear mission statement:
"BIMobject corporation is built around a network of companies and partners all over the world. Our ambition is to be the link between the complex technology around CAD & BIM and assist our customers, the Building product and interior manufacturers to successfully develop & manage digital replicas of their products as BIM objects"
however, they fail to mention the end user. Its clear that the company is so manufacturing facing that they forgot to make their library easy for us to use.
BIMobject is not user friendly for a number of reasons:
- its slow
- limited functionality with any BIMobject window open
- no settings
- very poor search algorithm (I can give a dozen examples if you like)
- search is unreliable, sometimes doing a raw text search, sometimes taking you to a category
- categories don't align with how architects and engineers generally categorize this stuff
- Revit family category not listed (despite having many other classifications)
- some families are in metric (even with the United States Region turned on)
- some families are not in the same version as revit requiring upgrade
- type catalog .txt files not available.
- quality control (marvin windows are broken by a shared parameter issue)
Seek wasn't broken in as many ways. You should have made sure that BIMobject would provide a somewhat decent and working solution before endorsing them and their app.