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Automated setup, management, and coordination, reducing traditional CAD management tasks
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Ability to work on large projects
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Ability to support distributed work processes, with multiple team members working on the same project
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The market share leadership position of the vendor offering the BIM solution
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Multi-disciplinary capability that serves architecture, structural engineering, and MEP
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Ability to support preliminary conceptual design modeling
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Full support for producing construction documents so that another drafting application need not be used
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Built-in ability to generate highly photo-realistic renderings and animations
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Smart objects, which maintain associativity, connectivity, and relationships with other objects
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Availability of object libraries
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Quality of help and supporting documentation, tutorials, and other learning resources
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Extensibility and customization of the solution
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Number of third-party developers developing add-on applications of the tool
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Direct integration with structural analysis application
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Direct integration with energy analysis applications
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Direct integration with cost estimating application
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Direct integration with project management applications
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Support for construction-related tasks such as quantity take-off estimating and 4D scheduling
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