CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
1 March 2010
Company News
Avatech Solutions Receives New Designation that Recognizes Excellence in Building Product Modeling Services
Avatech Solutions, Inc. announced it has been designated an Autodesk Seek Content Service Provider. This designation recognizes Avatech’s role in helping building product manufacturers develop data-rich 3D models of their products for easy download and inclusion into digital building information models (BIM).
BIM encompasses the creation and use of a coordinated, consistent 3D model in which objects reflect real-world behavior and specifications—and is a process being adopted by architectural, engineering and construction (AEC) firms at a phenomenal rate. With more than 80 percent of the top AEC firms worldwide now using BIM, manufacturers need to ensure that their products integrate into the BIM process that is driving large institutional, commercial, and industrial building projects.
The consulting services group at Avatech has worked successfully with a wide variety of building product manufacturers to develop modeling program strategies and BIM product content. Avatech’s new Autodesk designation ensures that clients’ models comply with the standards preferred by the millions of Autodesk Revit® and AutoCAD® users worldwide.
“Developed for professional designers, Autodesk Seek is an online source of digital product models that employ established style guidelines and standards. We have been providing models that meet or exceed these requirements for some time,” says Scott Hale, Vice President of Manufacturing Consulting Services, Avatech Solutions. “We’re helping manufacturers build detailed BIM product models that architects and engineers can discover online and embed directly in their projects. As a result, these manufacturers are able to win more business at a much earlier stage in the building design and construction process,” Hale continues.
Avatech’s mechanical and architectural application specialists have real-world experience and understand how architects incorporate building products into their designs, as well as how manufacturers design and produce those products. This understanding enables the consulting group to provide strategic direction to their manufacturing clients—not simply content development services.
“Autodesk Seek is fast becoming an important online channel for building product manufacturers to market and sell their products. Our new designation recognizes our proficiency in helping manufacturers develop their product content for this channel in a way that is growing in lock-step with the exploding BIM movement,” Hale concludes.
For more information about Avatech’s BIM Services and to see a white paper for building product manufacturers, visit http://www.avatech.com/BPM
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