BIM 360 vs Procore on a hospital job last month

I ran a 40,000 sq ft hospital renovation where the GC insisted on BIM 360 for clash detection. We had 12 trades in there and the model took 6 hours to load on a good day. Procore handled the same coordination in under 20 minutes with way fewer crashes. Has anyone else found BIM 360 just feels too heavy for everyday field use?

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graytorres3mo ago

Man I was all in on BIM 360 until last fall when we had to do a similar size job. I used to tell everyone it was the industry standard and you just had to deal with the load times. Then I had a GC push us onto Procore for a tenant fit out and it blew my mind how smooth everything ran. BIM 360 does have some advanced stuff but when you're on site and need to pull up a model fast that 6 hour wait is a deal breaker. Procore was just getting out of the way and letting us work, BIM 360 felt like it was fighting us the whole time. I'm still not fully converted but that experience really opened my eyes.

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thomas8623mo ago

Nah @graytorres, I gotta push back on that. BIM 360's got a learning curve but once you know how to set up your views and cache things right, it's way more powerful for the complex stuff Procore just can't touch.

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