您可以将其称为BIM的大众，或者您可以像开发人员一样称其为双向视线，但交易是，3D建模软件供应商现在正在分发一个强大的免费观看者，用户说，竞争对手可以竞争for-a-price替代方案。

Tekla BIMsight is available as a 46.6-megabyte download from the company’s website. It will import DWG format files from Autodesk, DGN files created by software from Bentley Systems and Intergraph and the open format IFC files as well. Capabilities include combining models, running clash detection and generating markups and pdfs, all in the service of sharing models and collaboration.

“I love BIMSight! It’s an incredible tool as it sits and is only going to get better,” wrote Gino Cecchetto, manager of BIM Services at Blach Construction, Santa Clara, Calif., responding to an e-mailed request for comment. “What really has me smitten is that it has completely broken down the collaboration barriers between us and our construction team members, and at no cost!”

Manatoba温尼伯的咨询工程公司KGS Group的Tekla管理员James Tapper表示同意。“ Bimsight是下一件大事。它得到了每个人都要求的一切。”

Even internally, when passing files between engineers and architects, not having to import into another authoring program, but share within the common viewer, will help prevent data loss and improve collaboration, Tapper adds.

“We’re not demonstrating Tekla BIMSight. Just download it and use it,” says Andy Dickey, Tekla’s U.S. construction segment’s business manager. He says it is simple and intuitive, although the company is hosting a lively forum for user discussions. “There are no training classes,” he adds. “If we have to do that, we haven’t done it right.”