The central server is “were the magic happens” in the keenBIM system. It houses all the laws and properties that govern our surroundings (gravity, physics, material properties, etc). The server only requires the most simple of inputs. It wants to know the form and material of objects and their spacial relationships to each other. When you combine these simple inputs with the “knowledge” of the central server, you gain the ability analyze any aspect of the modeled structure. The analysis would only be limited by the server’s ability to process the simple inputs. The beauty of using a central server is that the usefulness of the user created information, the simple inputs, grows with the server. The user input never becomes obsolete. Imagine the analysis that could be done on existing buildings if we were able to plug their original blueprints into today’s most advanced software. This is not possible because our current CAD systems are not interoperable. If a building owner wanted to use BIM for analysis of their existing structure, the building would have to be modeled from scratch. It becomes a redundant task. By keeping the user created information as simple as possible and leaving the “magic” for the central server, our time spent drafting will never have to be redone.
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