Abstraction is a concept

that acts as a super-categorical noun for all subordinate concepts. In context of snapshotting of BIM modeling it means that all that is carried in building information modeling data of a complete architectural design project can be first narrowed into one 2D desktop view as one or multiple view containing partial information of that complete set. This actually is the very abstraction of the complex data. As CAD users we are working through repeated variating abstracted snapshots. Even traveling inside a real-time 3D view of your BIM model is actually a set of trailing frames of an animation - the path you just move along.

So

if we already do that job on our hardware and software as well as on our very brainware, then why not to utilize this already existing fact of very effective abstraction in our operational reality?

By sharing a snapshot

of a single moment on your desktop you can connect another mind into your moment. Very effectively without any burden of hundreds of referenced files and items. In a blink this focused moment, issue, question, idea or whatever your reason is gets transmitted to the recipient. And weather we stack a pile of questions to get answers or just a single hot showstopper, the answering goes as fluent. To read and annotate images is both fast and natural to us. Why wouldn't we use visual interfaces we already have at our offices, homes and pockets every day?

So here we go.

First version of a Windows version 'Feed-in' tool for Skyhigh Visual Collaboration is out in testing. Initial results are very promising, imagined benefits seem to be materializing at concrete enough level. If the measuring is how much we get to remove waste from the process, then the answer is we already found all the technical components and know why, how, what and to whom we are building this.