We thought wrong
The error started decades ago with everyone confusing the basic categories. We saw drawings and then we saw digital models and we thought,
ah… that’s the progression, drawings are the past and models are the future.
The fact is there are two progressions, not one.
- The first is from mental models to digital models.
- The second is from conventional drawings to OPEN VCS (or something like it)
Simon’s point 3 is right (see screenshot below). I just add to it. Keeping drawing in its centuries old form of expression only, or dreaming of getting rid of drawings, are missing the point and all of the opportunity. See the FACTS, and 5 FUNCTIONS, sections in this intro:
Introduction to OPEN VCS – TANGERINE FOCUS
OPEN VCS developer specification This is the third version of the OPEN VCS Specification. Please read it at this link: OPEN VCS equipment for Visual Close Study in all digital models 26NOV2024x The spec includes detailed description of the 8 core features of OPEN VCS, plus a dozen or so related features, among many other … Continue reading Introduction to OPEN VCS
It’s about our mechanism for LOOKING, for physical evaluation, checking for ommission and good fit, for affirmation, and this mechanism is the interplay between the whole and these looks/evaluations/affirmations… It’s the way we think, how our mind works to get beyond superficial understanding, and beyond the illusion of model adequacy to proof of adequacy.
This thing we call drawing can evolve though. It can be authored in a different way, in the models, and the way we engage with it visually can be very much elevated. That’s what OPEN VCS intends to do, in every modeler, or starting with a standalone browser tab or app that does it in a speckled or other pipelined expression of your models.
Also see the comments by Dominic Seah under this post:
Some background here as I come around to the details: I saw a comparison made this week of GPS and BIM. When was the last time you unfolded a paper map while driving? This is used as criticism of those in AEC who, while having digital models, still make drawings. But, would a model of … Continue reading Would you like to help us establish, an OPEN VCS Collaborative?
About the author
Hi! My name is Rob Snyder, I’m on a mission to elevate digital models in AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) by developing equipment for visual close study (VCS) within them, so that they supply an adequate assist to the engine of thought we all have running as we develop models during design and as we interpret them so they can be put to use in support of necessary action, during construction for example.