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Probably the two leading programs when it comes to the development of BIM are both steel detailing programs. They are Xsteel and SDS/2 by design data. These programs have been using BIM sinsce the early 90's (before BIM was an acronym) Tekla was developed in Finland, they have a US...

Just curious. Did any of you evaluate more than one BIM program before choosing. It seems that most of you use Revit, but I do not understand why you would choose Revit over Tekla. My only guess is that you have not seen very much of Tekla, or that your Architect uses Revit, so you do too.

My advice to anyone interested in doing this would be to buy Tekla Structures instead of Revit. You will save all that time doing Autodesk's job for them, not to mention the info you obtain will be extremely accurate. Revit = DumbBIM Tekla = SmartBIM Just my opinion though. Actually...

As a structural engineer you should be finding other ways to save the owner money than getting them out of having to pay for inspection. The specification should represent the intent of the code: IBC Section 1704.2.2 basically states that inspections are required unless the fabricator is...