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Immediate answers to queries in your BIM model? Here's how: 1️⃣ Design and implement UI components for seamless interaction with Google Gemini in your BIM app. 2️⃣ Create a dropdown menu to select different Gemini AI models. 3️⃣ Add a text input for custom prompts, allowing natural language queries about your BIM model. 4️⃣ Implement a "Generate" button to trigger AI analysis. 5️⃣ Enable selection of IFC model elements (columns, slabs, walls) for AI analysis. 6️⃣ Develop AI search to process prompts and analyse selected elements. The outcome after implementing these steps? ➡️ Google Gemini AI integrated into your BIM model so you can ask questions about the model using simple language and get an answer. The full process, the code ready to copy and paste and a guide on how to implement it, will be available today to all Get The Code members. #GetTheCode #BeFreeAgain

Since AI is everywhere now, let's use it wisely.✨ In the video you can see the result of integrating Google Gemini with your BIM app (built with That Open Engine) to easily ask for relevant information. All without using complex and unfriendly property-based filters. Just simple, natural language to identify elements in your BIM model that meet specific criteria. ➡ The steps on how to do it? Tomorrow for Get The Code members. ➡ ️ Interested in becoming a BIM Software Developer and being able to code something like this? Stay tuned for September... 🚀 #openBIM #opensource #GetTheCode #BeFreeAgain

Learning to be free sure feels good. That’s what Ali Erişir said after completing one of the quests of the Get The Code membership. What you see in the video is what he built: a 3D commenting system directly inside his BIM app. It's amazing how your skills as a BIM Software Developer can improve when you put what you learn into practice. We continue to open up the BIM software market together. 💪 #GetTheCode #BeFreeAgain

Why is the construction software market dominated by giants like Autodesk or Bentley? These companies built their software from scratch, creating an oligopoly. Now imagine if every car manufacturer had to invent the wheel before building a new car. Absurd, isn't it? This is something that doesn't happen in the videogame industry. There, developers thrive on game engines like Unreal Engine or Unity. They focus on what adds value without reinventing the wheel. At That Open Company, we are building a "game engine" for BIM software.  Our goal? That anyone can create BIM software as good as Revit. This opens up the BIM software market, democratises it and allows new players to compete, pushing the leaders to lower prices or improve quality. We are transforming the industry. We are creating the future. 🚀 #openBIM #opensource

Is AI going to take our jobs? 🤖 Maybe. Or maybe not. It depends on your work and, most importantly, on you. Because, what would happen in the job market where AI suddenly takes over the most repetitive and low-value tasks? As Cal Newport suggested, work would be concentrated in the hands of fewer, brilliant workers. Just in case this hypothetical situation happens, the right decision would be to become a person of high value. How? 1️⃣. Focus on personal development. 2️⃣. Establish strong habits and routines. 3️⃣. Train to become a BIM Software Developer. With these changes in mindset and skills, you will inevitably become more valuable in the job market. We can’t control the future, but we can control our response to it and, in any case, training to become a successful BIM Software Developer is always a good option. 🚀

Why struggle with complex property-based filters when you can use plain, natural language? Searching for specific elements within your BIM model using AI becomes a much easier task. As you can see in the video, you can integrate Google Gemini with your BIM app to effortlessly find the information you need while working in your BIM model. This is the new content coming up in our premium membership, Get The Code. Although Get The Code access is currently closed, you can still take the first step: Become a BIM Software Developer and then take your career to the moon 🚀 Want to join a market full of opportunities? Then: ▪️  Write "Master" in the comments. ▪️  Follow us. ▪️  Send us a DM to get your link to the waiting list.

Practice makes perfect? Absolutely. Everything we do at That Open Company is practical. Like the Get The Code premium membership, where every week we deliver a code that helps boost the skills of BIM software developers. This picture is from yesterday's delivery, where we showed how to improve cost estimation with WebIfc and Google Sheets. 👎 Downside → The access to Get The Code membership is currently closed. 👍 Upside → Many of our members went through the Master BIM Software Developer first. It makes sense, first become a BIM Software Developer and then catapult your career. We’ll reopen the doors of the Master in September. You’ll find a link in the comments so you can join the waiting list. 👇

You can end up copying and pasting the quantities by hand, or…   You can code a tool capable of processing the necessary information from an IFC model and write it directly into the same Google Sheet file where you have your unit costs. So, instead of doing the cost estimation by hand you can: ▪️ Configure Google Cloud Platform and enable the Google Sheets API. ▪️ Design a cost estimation spreadsheet on Google Sheets and share it with Google Cloud Platform. ▪️ Set up and configure a Node.js project. ▪️ Implement Google API authentication using JSON credentials. ▪️ Process IFC files using WebIfc. ▪️ Extract and export data from your IFC model to Google Sheets for cost estimation. The full process, the code ready to copy and paste and a guide on how to implement it, will be available today to all Get The Code members. But if you want to start from scratch, the Master BIM Software Developer will open access soon. Check the comments to join the waiting list. 👇

No more manual transfers. No more intermediary files. What you can see in this short video is, in a nutshell, this: ✅ Import IFC takeoffs directly into your spreadsheet. ✅ Eliminate the need for manual data transfer. ✅ Save time by not using intermediary files. Improving Cost Estimation with WebIfc and Google Sheets, tomorrow for the members of the premium membership Get The Code. And if you want to start your journey as a BIM Software Developer, the doors of the Master to achieve it will open soon. The link to join the waiting list, in the comments. 👇

She was lost managing comments in BIM models. Not anymore. Aida Vicente developed a 3D commenting system directly in her BIM app. You can see it in her video. Now, her team can leave comments directly in the model, integrated and seamless. She has put into practice what she learned in Get The Code, our premium membership. Between all, we're creating a legion of successful BIM Software Developers. 💪🚀 #GetTheCode #BeFreeAgain