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1st Pricing Releases 5D BIM Pricing
Plug-in for AutoCAD Architecture 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
September 30, 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 revolutionary
5D Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology to Autocad®
Architecture 2010 - nearly doubling the available window images
for the CAD program. 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 CAD
programs and eCommerce portals with supplier or distributor
prices. This allows the purchase of “specified” materials
online. Visit www.1stPricing.com to download the free plug-in.
“The 1st Pricing plug-in allows
architects and designers to access real-world, commercially
available products in their designs. The plug-in automatically
accesses external databases for product detail - from
availability to line item pricing to performance ratings – even
“Green” ratings. You can even access design details and elements
without opening the CAD program – it is all available online for
everyone involved in the building process.” said Douglas Lopez,
Founder of 1st Pricing and a licensed general contractor. “No
longer do plans need to be interpreted nor does the architect
need to be bothered with trivial questions. 1st Pricing 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 and simplify sustainable building
practices. It is a search engine specifically designed for CAD.”
1st Pricing provides precise detail to all downstream consumers
of the information and provides the decision maker detailed
information in order for them to make better, more informed
decisions.
With the click of a button, the
1st Pricing technology accesses multiple external 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 using the best practices
of 5D. 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 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
this 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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