Making COBie Sexy

I’ve had the pleasure of being part of the team responsible for the Autodesk Revit Interoperabiity Tools, and it’s been a treat helping to figure out how to make the best tool and continue to refine them. They have been in development and available in one form or another for a couple years now, but our website www.biminteroperabilitytools.com has only been live a few months and we’ve gotten a tremendous response. Couple the with the recent UK BIM Mandate, and the need to get our Revit models to work with other applications has never been greater.

I was only loosely familiar with COBie before I got involved with the tools, so working on the Autodesk COBie Extension for Revit has been a great way for me to learn more about it. Put simply, COBie is a standard format for sharing data between applications, in this case from Revit to… whatever application you need it to go to. COBie is not software specific, and that’s is strength and why it’s being adopted by so many government and…

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