BIM content: worrying trend

[Christiaan]

If you do a search on BIMstop they have 660 items:

http://www.bimstop.com/bim-content/

Of those 394 are in Revit format

326 are in ArchiCAD format

35 in Vectorworks

1 in IFC format.

On the UK's National BIM Library you can't search by CAD vendor but a browse through shows that, while they're all in IFC format, everything is also in Revit format, with the occasional items in Vectorworks format.

Even, for instance, partitions, which have a perfectly good parametric tool in VW are not available in Vectorworks format:

http://www.nationalbimlibrary.com/BIMObjects?n=140282fe-03cd-e111-bb1e-002219aa70ca

[Chris D]

VW is second placed according to this:

http://constructioncode.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/national-bim-library-first-four-months.html

[Christiaan]

Okay, that's good, but why is everything available in Revit format? Who's effort has resulted in that I wonder?

[Jershaun]

Revit is simply better and more widely used. Developers will always spend more time on a format that's more common. It's like dwg for 2D content.