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1

Answer a real question

Lessons are built on situations like this one, with the reason for every answer.

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A steel fabricator ordered sections from a drawing marked S2. Who should have stopped it, and how?

2

Find what was edited by hand

One of 11 playgrounds: puzzles checked as you go, each inside its lesson.

Playground · Drawings
Find where the drawing and the model disagree

A level 1 plan of a small clinic wing as it was issued, and what the model holds. Some things on the sheet were edited by hand after it was exported. Click every place where the drawing says something different from the model. (A teaching sheet drawn for BIMpedia.)

CLINIC, LEVEL 1General arrangement planLEGENDWall (model)Ceiling bulkheadFD30 / FD60 Fire door rating1.01 Room numberScale 1:100 @ A1Drawn AB · Checked CDBC36001.01 Waiting · 22.4 m²1.02 Consult 11.03 Treat1.04 Consult 2 · 16.8 m²1.05 StoreNote: ceiling 2700 throughoutD03 [FD60]D07 ⟷ 900Rev P03 · Status S2Sheet A-101
0 of 6 found. Compare each item on the sheet with the model column below.
On the sheetIn the modelYour check
Room 1.01 Waiting · 22.4 m²IfcSpace 1.01 Waiting, area 24.0 m²Not marked
Room 1.04 Consult 2 · 16.8 m²IfcSpace 1.04 Consult 2, area 16.8 m²Not marked
Room 1.05 StoreIfcSpace 1.05 Clean utilityNot marked
Grid B–C: 3600Grids B–C 3,600 mm apartNot marked
Door D07: 900 wideDoor D07, overall width 1,000 mmNot marked
Wall between 1.02 and 1.03No wall element thereNot marked
Door D03 tag: FD60Door D03, FireRating EI 30Not marked
Grid line BGrid B at the same positionNot marked
Note: ceiling 2700Ceilings at 2,700 mmNot marked
Title block: Rev P03 · S2CDE: revision P04 shared on 12 MarchNot marked
3

Make the coordinator’s call

Decision scenarios: three choices, real consequences, told by the team you'll meet in the lessons.

Scenario · told by Maya, information manager
The client wants “everything in IFC”

You’re the information manager on a new office. In the kick-off, the client’s project director says: “We want everything in IFC, at LOD 400.”

4

Watch a building go up

One of 31 free tools, all in your browser, on a real sample model. Your files never leave your computer.

The 4D Simulator links a programme to the model and plays the construction week by week. The sample clinic and its programme are already loaded.

Open the 4D Simulator
5

Prove what you know

Each track ends with an exam and a badge; three certificates take the badges of a role and a final exam.

BIM Coordinator · Information Manager · Digital DeliveryBadges for each track, then one final exam per certificate. Free, with a forum account.