NBS Chorus, the first cloud-based platform for BIM professionals

NBS Chorus belongs to a collaborative specification platform specifically useful for global design and construction. It facilitates the professionals to generate superior quality specifications proficiently.

With the application of cloud technology, the users will be able to obtain the latest software and global content at all times, enhancing collaboration and efficiencies over entire teams and minimize risk.

NBS Chorus facilitates the entire team to work in tandem with each other. It associates the people you require from any location, offers the entire team with perfect global standards and classifications and relates this all simultaneously in a platform developed for BIM on a global scale.

The capability to function inside a cloud-based software platform facilitates to collaborate with external organisations undertaking projects globally with the capabilities of the collaborative software.

This platform will facilitate to work more efficiently among Studios as well as with other consultants. One can get the ability to assess specifications not in isolation from the design/model, but as part of the design, will allow for more collaborative discussion with context.

As project specifications can be obtained from various design discipline in a single area, the effective collaboration will be created and it will eliminate the risk of gaps in the project specification as well as take out assumptions in design information that contains numerous responsible parties.

NBS Chorus presents structured content written and maintained to UK or Canadian practice and standards.

To get more details about NBS Chorus, visit www.theNBS.com

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A position is vacant for BIM/Design Coordinator

The Opportunity: A position is vacant for BIM/Design coordinator on full time basis to offer its service for a highly reputed electrical services and data/communications company.

Any BIM & Revit users who hail from either a Building Services or Architectural background can apply for the post.

Duties & Liabilities:

• Accomplish detailed designs on Electrical projects.
• Deal with a wide array of small to large scale industrial & commercial projects.
• Make coordination with the design team all over the Australian offices.
• Make coordination with other consultants & clients.
• Effectively deal with documentation work entrusted by the engineers.
• Avail the opportunity to make bright career as a Design Manager.

Skills and Experience:

• Sound knowledge in Revit and CAD
• Be familiar with other BIM software tools & BIM processes.
• Sound communication & presentation skills
• Proper attention to detail and sound documentation skills
• A well-built design background from a MEP discipline will be an added advantage
• Familiar with the Electrical industry but it is not compulsory

Benefits:

• Nice working culture
• Car allowance / Car provided for the right candidate
• Adjustable working hours
• First-rate remuneration
• Huge career progression!

Apply: To get more details about the position, give a call to Sarah Wells on 02 9350 8330 or apply directly sending your resume in MS word format through mail at sarahw@constructive.net.au

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Datakit expands its BIM offer with a Revit format reader

Datakit, a leading company in CAD data exchange, unveil its brand new interface: a library to read Revit files (*.rvt), the native format of the well-known Autodesk’s BIM software.

This new interface expands Datakit’s BIM offering, begun in January 2017 with an IFC reader.

“Following our arrival into the BIM world one year ago, and following the positive feedback from our customers regarding our IFC reader, we have decided to expand our offer in order to also satisfy their native BIM data import needs.”, Explains Olivier Rigollet, CEO of Datakit. « As Revit is the most popular BIM software presently, it was natural to complete our range with this format. After one year of work, we are now able to provide a first version to our customers. »

As the other Datakit’s interfaces, this reader is independent of any external API, so it does not require a Revit license to work.

This new interface has been integrated into CrossManager, the standalone software of Datakit. CrossManager’s users are thus able to convert .rvt files to IGES, STEP, PRC and 3DPDF. New combinations will be available in the future.



A Revit file, converted in 3DPDF with CrossManager. The file can thus be opened in Adobe Acrobat Reader™ to be viewed. The instances list of the original model is accessible.

Software vendors can also take advantage of this new interface in order to provide their users with interoperability with Revit format.

This is possible thanks to CrossCad/Ware: a SDK that can be integrated in a third-party software. By integrating CrossCad/Ware in their own application, software vendors benefit from Datakit’s technology, enabling them to access to Revit format data. They can thus read geometrical data along with colors and instancescontained in Revit 2017.x files. The API integration is easy and is seamless for end users.

CrossCad/Ware enables to support Revit files in your own application.

This tool is ideally suited to BIM software vendors, Indeed, It will enable them to offer their users to work from models initially designed with Revit.

But it is also intended to all other fields’ software vendors who want to offer their users the ability to import Revit data.

Many software vendors already have confidence in the robustness of CrossCad/Ware. Already more than a hundred of software from different fields of activity (CAM, ERP, PLM, visualization, simulation, control, metrology, BIM…) rely on Datakit’s technology to read 3D data.

To try Revit files conversion with CrossManager, or to get more information about the software integration possibilities, you can visit datakit.com or contact Datakit at +33 478 396 369.

You will also be able to meet Datakit team during its visit to BIM WORLD event, in Paris on March 29th, 2018.

Source: www.datakit.com

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Benefits of BIM for product manufacturers

The contractors are implementing BIM in every phase of building construction projects. The manufacturers should also need to embrace BIM to reap the benefits instantly.

With BIM, the building products manufactures will be able to identify their product with a comprehensive detail. As for example, each dimension, curve, joint etc. can be transmitted proficiently.
The necessity for BIM content becomes vital with respect to plant room construction, in which each object arranged is interrelated, and is important.

When the AEC professionals have clear knowledge about the products, it becomes simpler for them to choose one that best suits with the building. The similar is also applicable for procurement and logistics division. They can purchase the products from manufacturers by maintaining more transparency and confidence which lead to long-term customer relationships.

As the technology becomes more advanced, the acquired products can also be tracked for obtaining various details like who brought it, its installation, operations, and maintenance.

The recommendation from customer (end user client) can also be obtained by the manufacturer via the similar channel, and therefore it will essentially allow them to make their products qualities superior.

To reap the full benefits from BIM, the manufacturers should have to outdo the BIM direction problems they experience and formulate their BIM content together with the building products data more BIM-friendly.

If product manufacturers are not prepared to adopt BIM in due course, they will be compelled for countering the challenges outlined above devoid of driving at and being a part of the solutions for the entire industry.

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How BIM was applied in £150M Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Clinical Neurosciences project

The £150M Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Clinical Neurosciences is considered as the single largest project that was designed by HLM Architects. To carry out this complex project, the project team had implemented UK Building Information Modelling (BIM) Level 2 from the beginning of the project.

The project team had embraced a “full BIM Level 2” working surroundings and gradually formed a ‘Project Information Model’ or PIM all through the design and construction phases.

That PIM comprises of structured graphical and non-graphical information which are preserved in a Common Data Environment (or CDE); a common online space that is available to all concerned parties.

HLM Architects substantiated their graphical information models in ARCHICAD. The information model of the project was formed recurrently over time. HLM’s Model Manager received a graphical information model files from across the design team and supply chain on a twice-a-week basis, afterward integrate or ‘organize’ them into a single model for evaluating in design co-ordination meetings.

All the project related drawings are generated in the 3D model, in ARCHICAD. The mass [of the data] is then exported as PDFs or Excel spreadsheets and uploaded to the CDE.”

By utilizing PDF or Microsoft Excel format, the information was made available to all sections of the supply chain.

In the project, there were advanced mechanical and electrical installations and huge amounts of equipment. Besides, a very data heavy project information model is also required for the project. To resolve this problem, the team seldom loaded-up the complete federated model rather than they divided it into controllable sections, only looking at the specific information they needed to at any one time.

By producing the comprehensive design in a BIM surrounding, a robust information model is formed for being analyzed on site.

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Benefits of BIM for Civil Engineers

BIM is mostly recognized in architecture and construction field but its usages are limited to civil engineering field. The civil engineers (who deal with roads & highways designs) are still very much unaware to reap the benefits of BIM completely. To some extent, it is used by civil engineers who perform with structural as well as architectural engineers on a regular basis.

Now the question is what benefits BIM provide to a civil engineer – superior designs and improved efficiency and productivity. With BIM, the civil engineers will be able to decrease the time to a great extent necessary for assessing various alternatives, carrying out alterations as well as generating construction documentation as design and construction documentation are intensively associated with BIM. Consequently, any project can be finished quickly by maintaining anticipated time schedule. The roadway optimization is also improved with the inclusion of simulation, visualization and analysis to the design progression. The following two factors are vital to accomplish a best possible roadway design.

Construct-ability: Usually civil engineers create their design for code compliance, giving less importance to constructability. Belated schedules, change orders and RFI may occur after the commencement of construction, if design is executed imperfectly in the field owing to confusing documentation. While developing a new roadway construction project containing interchanges and bridges with an estimated budget of $100 million, almost 7 to 8 percent of it will be incurred in design development. If the design expense is minimized by 35 percent through a more productivity procedure, $ 2.6 million can be saved. However, if the construction part is decreased by 15 percent with construct-ability throughout the design progression, nearly $14 million can be saved.

Road safety: Normally, sight distance analysis is derived from mathematical equations addressing vertical curvature in the road profile. But, we often, do not include the factors like visual obstructions and horizontal layout by applying this method. So, civil engineers incorporate interactive visualization together with sight distance simulation into the design method because it facilitates them to recognize whether the road geometry congregates vital safety parameters regarding sight distance like curvature, grades as well as visual obstacles like barriers, foliage and berms.

Image Courtesy: www.rvwconsulting.co.uk
Ref: www.revitmodelingindia.com

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Autodesk has tied up with Japan based Nihon Sekkei to offer top-notch BIM practices

Autodesk, Inc has tied a knot with Japan based Nihon Sekkei, with the air of providing the top-notch Building Information Modeling (BIM) process catering to the Japanese market. The two companies will jointly develop BIM workflows useful for Japan based BIM professional to cope up with the global building design requisites which can help in constructing smart, energy efficient buildings and infrastructure.

Nihon Sekkei is a renowned architectural design firm that has been delivering substantial architecture projects like universities, hospitals, hotels, offices and financial centers since 1967. Some of their remarkable projects range from Toyota Motors’ Nisshin Education and Training Center, IBM Japan’s Makuhari Office, Tianjin International Financial Center, Shanghai International Trade Center, and Kanazawa Medical University Hospital.

The two companies will co-actively get the most out of the advantages of BIM to offer more value to owners, users and society during the whole building lifecycle.

The benefits of this strategic alliance will provide the following:-

Nihon Sekkei will apply Autodesk Revit software’s incorporated model data in favor of architectural, structural and MEP design to facilitate designers and owners to measure as well as make the environment effect less complex over the buildings. It will be useful for creating sustainable environment.

Both will utilize Autodesk Revit and cloud services like A360 platform to build up new design workflows.

Develop data interoperability amid Autodesk platforms as well as various specialized third-party applications like facility management and simulation so as to widespread Nihon Sekkei’s technical consulting and design services abilities. The motto is to provide support for superior planning and decision making all through the building phase.

In order to interchange ideas and experiences with global industry leaders to flourish BIM as the global standard, both will work mutually.

These activities will be very fruitful for both the companies to expand the significance of incorporated BIM that can transform the various design practices and workflows to the next level. Besides, both the companies will uphold the imposition of standards or regulations concerning architectural guidelines and level of development (LOD), and team up with companies in the construction industry, education and research institutes, and government agencies to convey practical benefits from next-generation BIM.

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ZWSOFT has released ZW3D 2014 SP with 300 improvements in CAD and CAM modules

 ZW3D, the most recognized solution provider in top-notch cad/cam application, just launched ZW3D 2014 SP. This latest cad/cam application comes up with in excess of 300 enhancements in CAD and CAM modules, which empower the users to design with unmatched quality as well as machine in a quickest possible way.

The advanced features include improved file translator to support data interoperability via JT files, new part family to speed up the design of parts variations, new “ Open in ZWCAD” feature to control specialized DWG functions and various superior modeling tools to produce interactive design atmosphere.

This newest version of ZW3D is specifically designed for enhancing the CAM functionality with some exclusive features like automatic corner finishing, wave tool path for stone polishing and easier hole machining on 2D drawings etc. With ZW3D 2014 SP, the consistency of machine, life span of tool as well as effectiveness of CNC are enhanced to a great extent.

ZW3D 2014 SP comes up with different 11 languages ranging from English, Spanish, and Portuguese. The Italian and Japanese versions will be available very soon.

Download a 30-days free trial

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Learn to make as well as import styles through Style Manager in AutoCAD Architecture or AutoCAD MEP

Issue: There is no option for applying style in a file. But one can make his own styles or import available styles from another file. To perform this, apply the following tricks:-

Solution:

 1. To tailor styles on the basis of the Standard styles:-

•          Click on the style manager to open it.
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•          Broaden a Style Category (eg. Wall Styles).
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•          Opt for the Standard style in the category.
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•          To replicate the standard style, apply the Copy and Paste buttons situated in the       tool bar.
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•           Underneath the original style, there will be a Standard (2) style.
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•           Change the name of the style.
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•          Modify the properties of the style with the tabs located at the right. The tabs              range  from General, Design Rules, Overrides, Materials, Classifications, Display        Properties, and Version History.

 2. To import aceessible styles from another drawing file:

•       Click and open the Style Manager (STYLEMANAGER).
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•      Navigate and open the file that contains the existing styles through the Open menu in the tool bar.

•     The drawing and its styles will be visible in the file tree underneath the existing drawing.
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•        Extend a Style Category (eg. Wall Styles).
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•     In the existing drawing, drag and drop specific styles into the related category or drag and drop the full category to copy all styles.

The default location for the Imperial Architecture can be found below:-

C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\ACA 201x\enu\Styles\Imperial

The default location for the Imperial MEP content can be found below:-

C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\MEP 201x\enu\Styles\Imperial

For metric or other local content, choose the exact folder within the Styles folder.

Keep in mind that this folder is hidden and in order to get the files inside the hidden folder, activate Windows Explorer.

3. If no style prevails in a category:

•          Right-click on the category (eg. Wall Styles).
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•          Click on "New" to create a new style.
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•          Modify the properties of the style with the tabs located at the right.

Ref : knowledge.autodesk.com

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ASI, LLC Offers 3D Models for BIM

With over a decade of experience, Atlantic Subsurface Imaging, LLC started out by offering utility mapping in Philadelphia. Now, Atlantic Subsurface Imaging, LLC has expanded into many similar areas of service. Plus, Atlantic Subsurface Imaging, LLC has expanded into a larger geographical area. However, the customer has always been the number one area of focus at Atlantic Subsurface Imaging, LLC. With improved technology, Atlantic Subsurface Imaging, LLC can now offer their customers 3D models to help assist in project planning.

Atlantic Subsurface Imaging, LLC has learned a lot over the past ten years. More information about a subsurface area is always an asset to a customer during project planning. Atlantic Subsurface Imaging, LLC utilizes the revolutionary LiDAR technology. LiDAR is essentially a laser scanning technology that allows for some of the most precise measurement of an area. LiDAR technology can assist Atlantic Subsurface Imaging, LLC in creating 3D models for their customers.

LiDAR technology is a great resource. However, Atlantic Subsurface Imaging also utilizes industry-leading ground penetrating radar technology in conjunction with the laser scanning ability. These two resources together are what allow Atlantic Subsurface Imaging, LLC to create extremely detailed 3D models. Furthermore, Atlantic Subsurface Imaging, LLC uses the most advanced 3D software scanning software available.

All of the 3D designs produced are compatible with CAD, BIM, and GIS. Atlantic Subsurface Imaging, LLC is able to provide some of the most accurate descriptions of subsurface areas in the industry. Atlantic Subsurface Imaging, LLC has helped to build 3D models for everything from small projects to major highways. Whether a small business owner is looking for utility mapping in New York or 3D models for pre-construction, Atlantic Subsurface Imaging, LLC offers fast and reliable service.

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Autodesk vault interacts with Revit server

This video shows how autodesk vault interacts with revit server and how to configure them both across different sites connected through a WAN. The demo shows how and why the combination of vault and revit server is the perfect solution for cross-site collaboration.

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Designing a House in Revit Architecture

Designing a House in Revit Architecture examines the construction modeling and design documentation process from start to finish in Autodesk Revit Architecture. CAD support specialist Brian Myers shows how to build plans for an American-style bungalow from scratch using the tools in Revit. By the end of the course, designers will have built a model of a multi-level residence and created multiple sheets in the design documentation set, as well as sections, details, and schedules.

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Debut of i-model plug-in for Revit

With the i-model plug-in for Revit the users will be able to save their Revit models in such a manner so that they can open the models in Bentley MicroStation, Bentley Navigator, and several other Bentley building products, keeping the Revit properties information intact within the Revit model.

The plug-in mostly useful for the project teams who are accustomed to work with a diverse Bentley/Revit surroundings and reference Revit models inside a MicroStation-supported design system used for coordination purposes, conflict recognition as well as the same types of activities.

How it performs:

By applying this plugin the project team members can save their Revit models to an i-model file inside the Revit application. The users have to perform this for one time and they don’t need MicroStation or any other Bentley application except the i-model plug-in for Revit.

The i-model is compatible with Bentley Navigator and can be applied for redlining, conflict detection, and further federated information workflows. The plug-in is well matched with the 2008-2012 versions of the Revit products along with Architecture, MEP, and Structure, and provides support for the 64-bit versions.

The i-model plug-in for Revit lets users save their Revit models to an i-model file from within the Revit application.

Download i-model plug-in for Revit

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