Making sense of clash detection in BIM
If you've ever been on a construction site and watched a plumber stare in disbelief at a massive steel beam running right through where a drainpipe should be, you already understand the value of clash detection in BIM. It's essentially the digital version of catching a mistake before it becomes a multi-thousand-dollar nightmare. In the old days, we relied on light tables and transparent paper to overlay drawings, hoping our eyes wouldn't miss a conflict. Today, we have much smarter tools, but the logic remains the same: it is much cheaper to move a pipe on a computer screen than it is to jackhammer it out of a concrete slab. ...