Skema Announces New Integration with Trimble SketchUp
This integration addresses the profession’s need for greater interoperability between SketchUp and Revit, providing design firms with a seamless way to leverage SketchUp’s early design capabilities to drive Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows and Revit deliverables.
Supercharging Hospitality Design: Rapid Prototyping with Skema’s Design Catalogs
For hotels and resorts, Skema fast tracks the layouts of guest rooms, back-of-house areas, and function wings. Skema shaves time off feasibility studies, prototyping and options generation – while honoring creativity and the unique designs that define boutique hotels and resort properties.
Skema Unveils Skema 2024: Revolutionizing Schematic-to-BIM Design Workflow
Read our press release. Skema 2024 transforms a firm’s proven and BIM-rich unitized design elements – whether created in Revit, ArchiCAD, IFC, or any other BIM software – into Design Catalogs for new build, adaptive reuse, and modular projects. The new capabilities support modern methods of construction (MMC) and can save weeks of laborious BIM modeling tasks.
Architosh Reveals Real-World AI in AEC
Learn more about how Skema uses AI and machine learning in a few excerpts from a recent Architosh feature.
AI, Pickleball, and Design Catalogs: your burning questions about Skema
Skema is a new kind of design software. Because it leverages past designs for new designs, it doesn’t fit neatly into traditional design phases. And that opens all kinds of questions. So, we’ve compiled this FAQ of some of the most common questions we get in our customer meetings. Check out these Q&As and see how versatile Skema is. It's changing the game for architects and designers.
The Charette Edge: A blueprint for fast-track onboarding
Our charettes are our “white glove service” to get you and your teams up and running on Skema quickly within your firm’s specific context.
Re-thinking Rules of Thumb: New Opportunities in Architectural Design Timelines
It’s time to talk about the new opportunities in architectural design timelines. Our clients tell us that Skema fast forwards their process by six to eight weeks. That means you could deliver a DD package in 18 weeks, with a high probability that you improved quality by automating all those highly repetitive modeling tasks that sometimes lead to unnecessary errors.
AI Buzz in the AEC Industry #AIinAEC2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) is all anyone seems to hear about now-a-days, and it’s honestly for good reason. No matter what industry you’re in, AI will likely be a game-changer for you at some point. The AEC industry is no different – change is coming.
Friend or Foe: Top Reasons AI is Our Ally in Architectural Design
In the dynamic world of architectural design, the integration of AI-driven automation isn't just a trend – it's a game-changer. While some architects are cautiously testing the waters of AI integration into their practice, others are fully embracing it, diving in headfirst. Here are four reasons why AI is our trusted ally, particularly when paired with innovative solutions like Skema
400 Seconds with Skema: Telling Our Story with Pecha Kucha
Using the Pecha Kucha style of presenting, we can tell the story of Skema in an extremely efficient way. We recently used this method when we won BuiltWorlds January Demo Day, as well as a presentation at The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).
Lessons from our Charette with OPN Architects
The Skema team and architects from across OPN’s five offices came together in their Des Moines, Iowa, studio for a one-day charette. Skema created a custom catalog of OPN’s signature design elements that designers used like puzzle pieces to apply to the new project.
‘Cloud Sourcing’ – Facts and Misconceptions about Digital Transformation and BIM
This week at #AU2023, I had the pleasure of joining a panel that examined digital transformation and BIM2.0. Organized by Snaptrude’s CEO, Altaf Ganihar, the Cloud First Design and BIM solution panel explored innovative approaches for architects and engineers to enhance their use of BIM. Here are seven key themes we discussed.
Giving Credit to Architectural Design Wisdom
Richard Harpham has experienced most of the highs and lows of bringing disruptive technology to developers, designers, and contractors. As one of the co-founders of Skema, he’s applying his insights, expertise – and, yes, wisdom – to building our company and our brand.
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Top Updates from Skema
Welcome to Skema.ai! Our goal from the beginning has been to deeply listen to what architects really need, and then apply our special tribal knowledge about Revit and AEC software to develop and scale it. That’s what we’ve done with Skema AI and SkemaBIM — The Skema Software Suite. The updates in Skema deliver brand new capabilities for firms.
The Inconvenient Truth About Copy/Paste and BIM
Architecture firms have amassed a huge amount of BIM models and data over many years. And yet the ability to tap into that repository has been limited by technical obstacles. Until now.
Behind the Scenes with one of our Early Adopters
Skema Inc. has been partnering with TVS Design to help improve the Skema tools. Read all about our process and the benefits to real architects
Three Ways Automation Is Changing the Business of Architecture
The promise of design automation is that architects will be able to complete the deliverables more quickly. That’s highly valuable to both owners and architecture firms. But what happens to your business model? Here are three areas where automation is changing the business of architecture.