Question 1

Why focus on Rhino, SketchUp, and AutoCAD users?

Accepted Answer

These design tools are where creative vision happens. Architects and designers use Rhino for complex parametric forms, SketchUp for rapid conceptual modeling, and AutoCAD for precise 2D/3D drafting. But when projects move to BIM environments (Revit), designers often get excluded from the workflow. The problem: BIM professionals and designers work in separate silos. Designers create brilliant concepts in their preferred tools, then hand off geometry to BIM teams who manually rebuild everything in Revit. This wastes 35% of professional time on recreation instead of design. Senibina-Bridge connects these worlds. Designers can participate directly in BIM workflows without abandoning their creative tools. This isn't about replacing BIM professionals, it's about enabling collaboration where designers and BIM specialists work together seamlessly.

Question 2

What makes BIM so valuable that designers need direct access?

Accepted Answer

BIM has proven to deliver 30-50% efficiency gains across the architecture industry. These aren't theoretical benefits, they're measured improvements in project delivery speed, coordination accuracy, and cost control. But here's the challenge: when designers can't participate directly in BIM environments, they lose control over their design intent. Parameters get lost, relationships break, and creative vision gets compromised during translation. Direct BIM access means designers preserve 100% of parametric relationships while collaborating with BIM professionals. You design in Rhino, iterate in Revit, and maintain full control over your creative vision throughout the entire project lifecycle.

Question 3

Why family creation workflows instead of native Revit geometry?

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Family creation workflows cover the vast majority of design-to-BIM use cases today. Whether you're creating custom facade panels, parametric furniture, adaptive structural systems, or complex building components, Revit families provide the flexibility and control you need. We're actively working on native system geometry support (Walls, Floors, Roofs, etc.) for future releases. But here's the reality: progressive firms like Zaha Hadid Architects, Henning Larsen, and Foster + Partners have built competitive advantages using advanced family workflows that smaller practices simply cannot replicate. These firms invest millions in custom tools and dedicated computational design teams. Senibina-Bridge democratizes these workflows, giving every practice access to the same advanced capabilities that only well-funded firms had before.

Question 4

How do advanced workflows create competitive advantages?

Accepted Answer

Firms like Zaha Hadid Architects developed custom BIM systems that translate parametric geometry to Revit in 15 minutes, work that would take hundreds of hours manually. Foster + Partners built Hermes, a platform connecting Grasshopper, Dynamo, and Unity for real-time cross-disciplinary collaboration. These capabilities enable firms to win projects that smaller practices cannot execute. The Al Janoub Stadium's complex dhow-inspired form, Henning Larsen's World of Volvo timber innovation, BIG's VIA 57 West "Courtscraper" typology—all required computational design + BIM integration that only major firms possessed. The infrastructure gap keeps widening. Major firms maintain specialized computational teams, invest in custom tool development, and leverage these capabilities as competitive moats. Senibina-Bridge levels the playing field by providing these workflows to every practice at accessible prices.

Question 5

Why should competitive infrastructure be accessible to everyone?

Accepted Answer

Architecture's true value is design excellence, not merely the ability to produce deliverables. When only well-funded firms can afford advanced workflows, the industry competes on infrastructure budgets instead of creative talent. A solo architect in Singapore should have access to the same workflow efficiency as a 500-person firm. A small practice working on a $2M project should deliver the same technical sophistication as a multinational consultancy on a $200M project. Democratizing competitive infrastructure means the entire industry elevates. Complex geometry becomes standard practice, not exclusive capability. Practices compete on creativity and design vision, not on who can afford the best tools. That's the future Senibina is building.

Question 6

How does the floating license work?

Accepted Answer

Your Senibina-Bridge license can be activated on unlimited devices, but only one device can use it at a time. When you activate on a new device, the system automatically transfers the license from your previous device. No manual deactivation required. Example workflow: Monday: Activate on Office Desktop → License active on Desktop. Tuesday: Activate on Home Laptop → License automatically transfers to Laptop. Wednesday: Activate on Office Desktop again → License transfers back to Desktop. This matches industry-standard floating license patterns used by Autodesk, Adobe, and other professional CAD vendors. You get the flexibility to work anywhere while maintaining proper license compliance.

Question 7

What are the pricing tiers and what's included?

Accepted Answer

Student Tier - Free: 100% free access to full Senibina-Bridge functionality. Requires .edu email + valid student ID verification. Includes 50% discount for first year after graduation. Commercial Tier - Three Options: Monthly: $39 SGD/month (perfect for getting started). Annual: $400 SGD/year (save 15% with annual billing). Perpetual: $500 SGD one-time (activate on unlimited devices, 1 concurrent session). All commercial tiers include 14-day free trial with no credit card required. Perpetual licenses include all v1.x service releases, 12 months email support, and 50% discount on future v2.0 upgrade.

Question 8

What workflows does Senibina-Bridge support today?

Accepted Answer

Tier 1 - Bi-Directional Native Solids (5 minutes): Import Rhino Brep solids as native Revit family instances with automatic SHOW-[LAYER] visibility parameters. Export Revit walls, floors, instances, and DirectShapes back to Rhino with broken geometry recovery. Tier 2 - Parametric Family Creation (20 minutes): Import reference lines (family construction geometry), model lines (always-visible elements), and solids with layer-based visibility automation. Create production-ready parametric families with full BIM intelligence. Tier 3 - Adaptive Component Arrays (1 hour): Generate thousands of adaptive component instances from Rhino geometry. Perfect for complex facades, structural systems, and parametric arrays that would take days to create manually.

Question 9

What are the system requirements for Senibina-Bridge?

Accepted Answer

Revit Version Compatibility: Revit 2024 and below (.NET Framework 4.8). Revit 2025 and later (.NET 8). Rhino Version Support: Rhino 7 and Rhino 8 fully supported. Works with all Rhino license types (Commercial, Educational, Lab).

Question 10

How does the 14-day trial work?

Accepted Answer

Start your free trial with zero commitment. No credit card required, no automatic billing, no hidden fees. You get full access to all Senibina-Bridge functionality for 14 days. Test all three workflow tiers (Solid Import, Parametric Families, Adaptive Arrays) on your real projects. See the 24-40x speed improvements firsthand. Verify that Senibina-Bridge fits your practice's needs before committing. After 14 days, choose the pricing tier that works for you: monthly for flexibility, annual for savings, or perpetual for lifetime ownership. Students get permanent free access with valid .edu email verification.

Question 11

What's coming next for & Senibina?

Accepted Answer

Senibina-Bridge: In Development - Native System Geometry Support - Direct creation of Revit Walls, Floors, Roofs, and other system families from Rhino geometry. Expanding beyond family workflows to cover complete building systems. Senibina-Bridge: Coming Soon - Bridge Expansion - AutoCAD and SketchUp integration with Revit (two-way workflows). Broader tool support with focus on native system geometry workflows. Senibina-Gateway: Coming Soon - CORENET X integration for Singapore market. Streamlining compliance workflows and regulatory submission automation. Expanding from workflow efficiency to compliance augmentation.

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