BIM Chapters and beyond
BIM Chapters blog ↗Since 2010 Stine has also published instructional writing at no charge, on his own time, with no institution behind it. BIM Chapters has passed 3,155,530 readings and grows by 20,000 to 30,000 a month: tutorials, tool reviews, conference recaps, and workflow explainers, written for someone trying to learn a task the same day. He also writes for ArchDaily and the Autodesk AEC blog, and Chaos has commissioned 51 articles on Enscape for its own blog.
The archive by the numbers
Commissioned writing for Chaos
Stine has used Enscape since its release in 2015 and worked closely with its two founders as the software grew into the most widely used real-time renderer in architecture. In 2019 the company paid him to join them at four conferences, including Autodesk University in London and BILT Europe in Scotland, to demonstrate the product in the expo hall. Since 2020 Chaos, which acquired Enscape in 2022, has commissioned him to write for its official blog: paid articles on rendering, materials, lighting, virtual reality, and each year's Revit and SketchUp releases, written from a working office rather than a marketing department. The articles below are all his.