DesignReForm

What if you could browse your Revit model and database information on the iPhone (see attached)? How much would you pay for that app? What would you want it to do?

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A related question:

How much would you pay NOT to have your "personal & confidential" Sun Life/Financial information
distributed all over the internet?

Just kidding, but you should take a filter to your background in the image you posted,
there is a lot of info on display there!

Good point.

Very cool to see.  I heard about that fancy little app!  As soon as i relaunch the site i'll feature this post on the home page (sans personal info .

Thanks for the image!

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I'd love to play with it. Is there a Beta version for download?
Wouldn't a 50mb. Revit model be pretty slow on an iPhone?

No beta yet. And you're right. 50mb Revit models will be too much for the iPhone. So we've created a Revit "Export to iPhone" tool that breaks the model up into a bunch of smaller zone models, which can be loaded independently.

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Not that I'm trying to discourage you or anything, but wouldn't it be easier to write a 3D DWF iPhone viewer. That way you don't have to reinvent the wheel and write your own Revit exporter...

http://www.ice-edge.com/iceVision.php

this company has already done something similar

Except you have to pay $77 a month.
What a rip off, no thanks...
https://icevision.ice-edge.com/index.jsf

We must be so close to joining these two technology's together?

The iPhone is well suited for this type of thing, specially if we could use the resources to the full.

And with the iPhone being such a cheap platform it surely would be a huge step up?

I'd have to trial the app to determine how much I'd pay, would all depend on features and beat the competitions price.

I was curious as well why not use 3D DWF instead of an actual revit model? I would think more lightweight, but you've probably thought of that. I am interested on the development of this software. Let me know if you need any testers, I have a iPod Touch I can use

Nice work so far!

Thanks for the questions everyone.

Yes, we could have built a DWF viewer. But, in the end everything is just triangles. Our exporter gets the mesh information from the model elements the same way that DWF does. Our export file type ".gbm" is just a text file, meaning that anyone who wants to help write an exporter for another application, say Digital Project or Rhino, can do so just by reverse engineering the file structure. Neat eh?

In addition to the mesh information we use the material information from Revit to bake a lightmap of the geometry using the SunFlow renderer. So your models get a bit of visual bling.

We're entering the beta phase. Unfortunately, Apple makes it difficult to do a beta of an application without fully releasing it, or adding all the potential beta candidates to your "development team." So the beta will be by invitation only.

Please check in on the blog (http://www.go-bim.com) for the latest information.