One of the first things we are shown when we begin studying Revit or any other ?novel? software, is that all of them are BIM tools. The next step we follow when we understood what kind of computer software they are, is to search for the meaning of this acronym that stoked our interest so much: BIM. We search, we read, and we find out that it means ?Building Information Modelling?. Finally, after this, we get the temptation to say, for example, that we already know BIM, or that the Revit software I am learning is BIM.
We can never say these statements are completely false, nor that they are completely true. That is because there are substantial differences between the concept of BIM and the Revit software, which we will look at next.
We know that Revit is nothing more than a software. It?s a tool with specific features aimed at modelling architectural and engineering projects. Its main and most remarkable characteristic is that it models using parametric families, obtained in a 3D format. Furthermore, we can say that there are other tools, provided by other manufacturers, which have overall the same feature set.

On the other hand, we identified earlier the meaning of the BIM acronym, but we did not specify what it refers to. Well then, there are several definitions of BIM, all of them different and all of them correct. Referring to that, only one common factor amongst them can be identified: they all contain the word METHODOLOGY. This is key when it comes to defining what B...