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1st Pricing Releases BIM
Pricing Plug-in
for AutoCAD Architecture 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 15, 2009: Signal
Hill, Calif. – 1st Pricing, a Southern California-based
eCommerce and Technology Company, has announced that they have
completed and released a plug-in that links their patented
revolutionary Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology to
AutoCAD® Architecture 2009 - nearly doubling the available
window images. Now they offer plug-ins that are compatible with
versions 2008 and 2009. You can expect 2010 compatibility in the
very near future. This is the first technology to fully
integrate BIM into the design process - one that automatically
creates a detailed bill of materials with pricing and an online
shopping cart – called “5e” by the Company. 1st Pricing has
created a standardized platform that seamlessly links to
eCommerce portals with supplier or distributor prices. This
allows the purchase of “specified” materials online. With the
new platform, this technology can integrate directly with any
object oriented CAD program. Visit www.1stPricing.com to
download the free plug-in.
“The 1st Pricing “5e” technology
is unique in the BIM world as it allows the architect to specify
real-world products,” said Douglas Lopez, Founder of 1st Pricing
and a general contractor. “By providing commercially available
products and all of their available options, we translate
architectural design language to commonly used building
terminology so that the architect’s intentions are crystal clear
- no longer do plans need to be interpreted. We can show which
brands are available in a given zip code so a manufacturer can
be specified on the plans. We can identify green building
materials to encourage sustainable building practices. It is a
search engine specifically designed for CAD.” 1st Pricing
provides precise detail to downstream consumers of the
information and provides the decision maker detailed information
in order for them to make better decisions.
With the click of a button, the
1st Pricing technology accesses multiple databases through an
internet portal and can pull the brands that are available in
the region. Additionally it can provide “Green” information,
Energy ratings, RFID or provide comparison pricing of multiple
brands to fill out a detailed bill of materials with all related
content on demand making for easy fulfillment from a local
building material distributor. Changes and updates are made
within seconds so that everyone is on the same page. In the CAD
industry, the supply chain component is often referred to as the
“fifth dimension of CAD” or “5D” or, in the case of 1st Pricing
technology, "5e" for eCommerce. When you create a bill of
materials using the patented 1st Pricing technology, you also
create an online shopping cart available for everyone involved
in the project to see." This is an aspect of the BIM world that
no one else has delivered...we have been doing it since 2003. We
build a better list, give you actual prices and allow you to
purchase your specified products online at great prices."
“We provide critical product data
in seconds from simple availability to real, line-item prices -
data that often takes weeks to generate - plus a great deal of
time, effort and money.” adds Lopez. “We take theory out of the
design process and we are empowering the homeowner and their
contractor with a number of popular product choices including
delivered-to-the-jobsite pricing and no one has to recreate the
data.”
Today, the Company is focused on
building materials for residential construction but plans to add
commercial building products in the future. In the near future,
1st Pricing expects to provide pricing on virtually every
building product used in residential construction while bridging
the gap for subcontractors by including labor quotes.
About 1st Pricing
1st Pricing, an Autodesk®
authorized developer, currently offers free plug-ins for users
of AutoCAD® and TurboCAD®. A plug-in for Graphisoft’s ArchiCAD®
is currently in beta and is expected to be released in sometime
in the next quarter. More platforms are already in development
and will be released later this year. The 1st Pricing technology
was initially released in TurboCAD in 2003.
1st Pricing is part of California
Distribution Center (CDC), a building material distribution
company focusing on fenestration products. CDC Also operates 1st
Windows.com - the only site on the Internet that offers instant,
real-time, dynamic pricing and purchase of both replacement and
new construction windows. The website, which also offers doors,
skylights and acrylic glass block windows, has been online since
April of 2000.
The site allows anyone, homeowner,
do-it-yourselfer, architect or contractor, to get buy-it-now
pricing for made-to-order windows. Not only does the site offer
pricing for a specific brand, it can offer on-demand pricing for
up to six brands, simultaneously, with the click of a mouse.
When the order is fulfilled, the manufacturer delivers the
product directly to the jobsite.
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