1ST Pricing Releases Revolutionary BIM Pricing Tool for AutoCAD and Architectural Desktop.SIGNAL HILL, Calif. -- 1ST Pricing(TM), a Southern California-based technology company providing practical solutions to the building industry, has released a downloadable plug-in for AutoCAD(TM), Architectural Desktop(TM) and Autodesk Map 3D(TM) that will create a detailed bill of materials The list of components that make up a system. For example, a bill of materials for a house would include the cement block, lumber, shingles, doors, windows, plumbing, electric, heating and so on. including real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. , comparative pricing from many real manufacturers combined with pricing and an online fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. capability to support it. AutoCAD is the most used architectural Computer Aided Design (application) Computer Aided Design - (CAD) The part of CAE concerning the drawing or physical layout steps of engineering design. Often found in the phrase "CAD/CAM" for ".. manufacturing". program (CAD CAD: see computer-aided design. (Computer-Aided Design) Using computers to design products. CAD systems are high-speed workstations or desktop computers with CAD software. ) in the home-building industry. 1ST Pricing is an authorized au·thor·ize tr.v. au·thor·ized, au·thor·iz·ing, au·thor·iz·es 1. To grant authority or power to. 2. To give permission for; sanction: Autodesk Developer. "We've been reading plans for years, but no technology has ever been able to take full advantage of the information contained in the architect's computer," said Douglas Lopez, President and Founder of 1ST Pricing, Inc. "Now this $3.9 trillion One thousand times one billion, which is 1, followed by 12 zeros, or 10 to the 12th power. See space/time. (mathematics) trillion - In Britain, France, and Germany, 10^18 or a million cubed. In the USA and Canada, 10^12. industry has a search engine that takes a set of plans, hits a retailer database and returns multiple brands and real prices in one simple mouse click." Building Information Modeling (BIM BIM Building Information Modeling BIM Building Information Model BIM Bord Iascaigh Mhara (Irish Sea Fisheries Board) BIM Brussels Instituut voor Milieubeheer (Belgium) BIM Bharathidasan Institute of Management ) is a revolutionary tool in the architectural CAD industry, but it isn't taken to its logical conclusion -- pricing and fulfillment. When an architect designs a set of plans, traditional BIM-enabled CAD software captures the details of various objects in the plans, such as windows and doors. 1ST Pricing's software not only captures the information, but also provides real-time, comparative, zip-code-based pricing for each item and, ultimately, creates an electronic bill of materials that saves time and money while greatly reducing error. In addition to assisting architects and other plan designers build and price a bill of materials, the detailed materials are reviewable online for everyone involved in the building process. The contractor or homeowner can actually select and order the product online and have it delivered directly to the jobsite. "Our goal is to simplify the process of building a home," says Lopez. "The 1ST Pricing technology brings order and precision to a chaotic process, and is an incredible time-saver for architects, contractors and homeowners. A process that used to involve multiple parties and take several weeks with dozens of wasted man-hours can now be completed with a couple clicks of a mouse." Having already completed AutoCad versions 2002, 2004 and 2005, Architectural Desktop 2002 and 2004, Autodesk Map 5, 6 and 3D and IMSI's TurboCAD Standard and Pro, 1ST Pricing has begun scheduling the release of additional plug-ins for other CAD applications to begin later this year. |
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