Become a BIM Developer with Antonio Gonzalez Viegas | BIM Pure Live

Antonio Gonzalez Viegas is the founder and CEO of That Open Company, previously known as IFC.js. Antonio quit his job as an architect to become an open-source BIM software application developer. Now, he wants to teach you how you can do the same thing.

You will learn about:

What is That Open Company?
The benefits of Open Source / Open-BIM coding
How to get started with BIM development
Making money as a BIM developer
Examples of apps by That Open Company

Learn more about That Open Company: https://thatopen.com/

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🎵 Music by: Ile Flottante

Timestamps:

0:00 - Pre-show music
0:33 - Intro & Guardian sponsor of the season
4:04 - Announcements
5:45 - Chatting with Antonio
6:36 - How Antonio started coding
9:25 - Drawing bathrooms 40 hours a week vs coding
11:06 - Architecture training helpful in business?
13:05 - What is IFC.js?
17:57 - Hippies vs Capitalists
23:13 - What is That Open Company?
27:37 - Hollow Knight: 3 people, 195M revenues
30:05 - Building Unreal Engine for BIM?
33:13 - Examples of That Open Company apps
40:27 - That Open Company isn't for end users
42:39 - 💸 Making Money as a BIM Developer?
47:13 -The best way to become a BIM developer
50:14 - What is Open-BIM?
53:55 - BlenderBIM
55:12 - Plane vs Cars with wings
56:36 - Q&A
58:01 - How much do you earn as a Revit developer?
1:02:41 - BIM Modeling inside a Tesla
1:03:40 - How long to learn how to code?
1:05:00 - AI in coding
1:11:57 - Final words
1:13:08 - Post-show music