Applied Software Introduced New Products for BIM Professional

Applied Software is one of the largest Autodesk resellers, founded in 1982, is a recognized technology systems integrator that serves the AEC and manufacturing organization. It provides planning and better solutions to help manufacturing, architecture, engineering and construction organization in advancing their business procedures and work process.

In the Revit® Technology Conference North America 2015 (RTCNA, Autodesk Platinum Partner, Applied Software, has declared the inclusion of various new products to its wide range of software lists. These newly launched applications will help the organizations to get more benefits out of their business procedures and provide superior workflows for the construction of projects.

The new building solution allows program managers, architects and engineers to solve many underlying issues that have negative impact on collaboration, time and budget. The newly launched products at RTCNA Exhibitor Booth No. 36 are Revit Prolog RFI Integration, Viewpoint Sync and Windows Sync.

Revit Prolog RFI Integration is a unique feature of Revit. It graphically integrates RFIs (Request for Information) with the objects which are created with BIM (Business Information Modeling) program. This solution gives more effective approach to track issues by permitting them to make a persistent, direct link to objects in the building model (e.g., the area of an electrical outlet). Professional can now consequently operate to the building model, create or select an issue or problem, make inquiries and add data to a punch list. The software saves times through terminating the back and forth manual look ups available in RFIs. The feature is now available for all upgraded versions of Revit.

Viewpoint Sync is another inventive solution for marketplace which transfers uploaded documents to the library of BIM 360 field, a cloud based field administration work that incorporates a mobile app at the point of development with collaboration and reporting. This item reduces reiterations by synchronizing and storing documents via a single platform. Professionals are utilizing it to ensure that the upgraded versions of documents are available simultaneously to all the project team members who work co-actively. It also reduces the possibilities for potential mistakes and miscommunication. This is now available for Professional.

Windows Sync is a unique product which consequently selects documents for uploading to Windows Explorer and accommodating them with BIM 360 Field. On the other hand, Windows Sync facilitates the two-way transmitting of documents – from Windows Explorer to BIM 360 Field and contrariwise. It also works with other storage services like Dropbox to upload and adjust the to the BIM 360 Field library. It has the capability to work with FTP sites and network devices where Windows Explorer runs from backside. The solution is perfect for project managers to explore for a new idea to reduce redundancies, omissions and miscommunications amid the personnel associated with construction project. It is now available on market.

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Published By

Rajib Dey

www.bimoutsourcing.com

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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.

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Ref: www.revitmodelingindia.com

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Published By

Rajib Dey

www.bimoutsourcing.com

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