BIM for Renovation of Historical Sites

BIM is shading off the conventional drawing rapidly. Building Information Modeling (BIM) introduces a new way for designing, constructing and operating buildings and infrastructure. The application stretches far beyond the known territory and it also touches the history with its best features and applications. For understanding the building designs and materials of historical sites, BIM brings out an unparalleled approach. Renovating buildings centuries old requires a comprehensive knowledge of structural designs.

The most known problem associated with renovating historical sites is identifying the structural design. BIM comes as a boon for the organizations that are conducting such works. They revealed that scanning the old construction is like lifting the pages of history and bring out the architectural theories decades ago. BIM has been used for surveying sites accurately that carve out the foundation step of planning the renovation work as per the structure needs.

Mapping historical sites let you understand how the materials have been used and transformed over times. BIM has been used in renovating the Attucks school in Kansas City. The red building was built in 1905 by Charles A. Smith. The building stands in the test of time as a historical site of the colonial revival influences and it has a great influence in the education history of the African-American community.

Nearly two decades after, Charles A. Smith was approached to extend the historical building with a two-story wing to eliminate the over-crowding issue. The task was challenging since Smith needed to match the aesthetic essence of the building while designing the extending part. He used original architectural detail to recreate the same value created decades back. Getting the complete details of the building was not easy and it needed a thorough survey.

Redeveloping Attucks in a new way was a complex task for the team and it required to unveil the existing structural design in the infrastructure. BHC RHODES, a civil engineering firm, shouldered the responsibility of offering 3D Revit Building Information Model. The company used the lider 3D mobile mapping of GeoSLAM conduct the survey work magnificently.

The survey brought out some necessary factors that were essential for carrying out the renovation work safely. The team revealed information about the deteriorating conditions of the wooden flooring, a possibility of ceiling collapses and poor air quality.

The revealed information helped the workers on site plan their job in a secure way. The firm took help from GeoSLAM ZEB-REVO for mapping the inside of the building. The lightweight, a mobile device used the 3D Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) technology to perform the required job efficiently. The process is considered to be comparatively cost effective one to terrestrial, static or trolley based systems.

ZEB-REVO is incredibly designed for mobile mapping and surveying for multi-storied buildings. The device allows you to scan the inside of a construction just while walking around. For the Attucks School, the data received by this device generated 200BIM models.

The application of BIM in layering the historical sites proves to be a new approach. It opens up an array of benefits that lead to a flawless working ability. Sometimes the owner of building needs details about how the renovation work will be done and which material will be the best for work. BIM presents a design that contains every detail required for getting a quick approval on the proposed plan.

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PartsLab is a useful free Revit add-in

PCL PartsLab belongs to a free Revit add-in that makes the process automatic for production, visualization, and change management concerning Revit Construction Parts. Significantly minimize time and clicks by generating numerous parts from targeted categories/families/types.

Context sensitive tools facilitate rapid hiding & isolation. With the managed history view, it is possible to monitor when design updates occurred as well as types of modifications.

The Revit plug-in is intended for functioning with the software's Parts function to track changes to horde objects in the design models throughout construction devoid of modifying specs set in the construction model.

Now, it becomes easier to connect with the design models and make the constructability edits that is necessary when a design modification happens. With PartsLab, it is not required to visit and update the model. Just connect the original construction model into the original design. If any modification is done to the original model, the duplicate is also modified, and one can make edits to the duplicate.

Now, it is possible to mass-select [components] and generate parts out of everything that [includes] a floor, a column or a wall, for instance. When you accomplish that repeatedly it saves huge time.

This app is mostly suitable for general contractors, architects and engineers as well as major general contractors in North America and Europe.

The add-on offers the following features:

• Compatible with Revit 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 (all verticals supported)
• Explore through connected model categories/families/types from the aggregated model
• Filter model categories/families/types content by Level
• Generate numerous parts from targeted categories/families/types
• Automatically combines the level of Parts from linked-model objects
• Generates and handles a 3D history view of all Parts formed
• Apply context ribbon tools to Hide/Isolate Parts with the original categories/families/types
• Apply as investigative tool for Linked model content, shows object counts
• Replicate chosen family/type definitions from linked models into your existing model

It is available in Autodesk’s App Store as a free app.

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Formit 360 Autodesk

Autodesk® Formit® 360 is used to capture building design concepts for the appeared ideas. Those ideas are created in a compact digital format which will be used in the real-world site information like satellite images, for orienting the designs. Real building and environmental data is used for supporting design brainstorming. Preliminary designs are changed to centralized data storage for accessing and refinement in Autodesk® Revit® software or other applications.

This Formit360 released a lot of new goodies and also released an updated version for Ipad Pro, a Windows version and integration with Dynamo. The released notes followed:

• Internet connection is not needful for working in Formit360 when Formit360 Pro or trial is validated
• Online works is need when it is connected to the Formit 360 services like A360 Drive, Insight 360, Real-time Collaboration, Google Maps etc. and many more
• It can be modeled and navigated easily with the touch-enabled Windows devices with the use of the finger, stylus, mouse and keyboard
• Scripts can be placed and flexed from Autodesk Dynamo Studio
• The modeling tools are Shell, Filet, Mirror and many more
• The export options are Export Visible and Export Selected
• Exported file types are FBX, SAT, DAE, DXF
• The files such as SKP and SAT could be opened and imported directly to Formit
• The Visual Styles are like Monotone surface for an exquisite rendering effect
• For removing the material easily paint is done with the use of default material
• The area per level are viewed
• The user need to view the nested groups to select the groups from a tree view
• Then Ungroup All and the Model
• High DPI screens will be seen in high resolution icons with full clarity
• Keyboard shortcuts are Customized, Imported, Exported
• Next add, remove and relocate the toolbars, then set the UI theme in blue or white

Release Notes for Formit 360 for iPad and iPad Pro:

• It has the full support for iPad Pro resolution
• Formit 360 now supports the Apple Pencil. So the user can sketch more flawlessly and can use pressure for locking into a selected axis
• There will be some sound when anyone snapped to a point and moving along in an axis. It also disable the Settings menu
• There are new actions for undo and redo. For undo double flick to the left is needed and for redo to the right
• There is a new monotone surfaces for a subtle visual style
• It has improved performance, reliability and accuracy in Insight 360 Energy Analysis
• It has improved its performance for fixing the bugs

Release Notes for Formit 360 for Web:

• File operations are organized for allowing local and A360 Drive access
• There are monotone surfaces for a subtle rendering effect
• Export options are Export Visible and Export Selected
• Modeling Tools like Mirror, Offset Edges, Extrude Edges and many more are accessible here through keyboard shortcuts
• It has improved performance, reliability and accuracy in Insight 360 Energy Analysis
• It has improved its performance for fixing the bugs

Release Notes for Formit 360 for Android has improved their performance and fixed the bugs.

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Forge DevCon and Forge Accelerator

Autodesk has arranged Forge Accelerator discussion forum for the people who were interested in working with Forge DevCon.

Autodesk BIM had arranged a Forge Accelerator as a part of their Forge DevCon. It was known as Autodesk Forge Accelerator or Autodesk Cloud Accelerator and was arranged in the month of June last year in their San Francisco office. Then they arranged the first Forge Developer Conference and the whole process ended up well. They had targeted a vast range of industries for the Future of Making Things enthusiast. Forge DevCon had covered a vast range of class themes for the application development for designing product and manufacturing it.

Their expert team had created more than 50 classes for helping the influence in FOMT with the process of applying disturbing technologies for every part of the design, to make, use and manage lifecycle phases in some industries like manufacturing, engineering and building. Here is a list of the tracks and sessions that had made the Forge DevCon a wonderful and memorable experience.

1. Virtual and Augmented Reality: One of the early pioneers of VR, Tony Parisi had given the speech about an Intro t WebVR. Kean Walmsley, Autodesk Researcher and Evangelist had shown his projects with Collaborative VR by using the cheapest of the VR devices in the market, Google Cardboard.

2. Forge Basic: It was a track dedicated for the use of Forge API’s and its different applications for creating game changing business for exploring new things and discussing topics over Drones, Photogrammetry, Design Data and Visual Reporting.

3. AEC: It became a meeting point for the people who were involved with their built environment. The topics that discussed there were cloud-based collaboration for construction and building management; workflows connecting BIM with fabrication; and Generative Design etc.

There were numbers of proposals discussed for the following DevCon project. Whose application were accepted in that discussion, got a chance to work with the team for the whole week in their office on the projects of own that has used the Autodesk Forge API’s with the help of the ADN DevTech team and members of the Autodesk engineering teams. This Autodesk Forge APIs has included the View and Data, AutoCAD I/O, BIM 360, RecCap Photo and Fusion 360 APIs. A lot of new APIs also had launched in that program that can be found at their website.

For applying in this program, people needed to submit a proposal of about 2000 words written about the described project that the applicant would like to work on and how the applicant would use the Autodesk Forge APIs in that.

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Export BIM 360 Company Data through Autodesk Forge

Autodesk BIM 360 is the excellent tool for Project, Field and BIM Managers for accelerating delivery save money and reduces risk. It also allows project teams to give the tools for coordinating better, communicating more effectively and resolve issues faster and more profitable project delivery. BIM mainly works for Superintendents, Project Managers, Virtual Construction Managers, Subcontractors, Project Engineers, and Design Teams etc.

Autodesk Forge: It is a collection of Application Program Interfaces or APIs which Autodesk has used for developing their own web services. APIs are the part of Autodesk forge, so Autodesk has shared those APIs with the documentation and code samples to the customers and the 3rd Party developers or the Forge community who has a need for leverage years’ work off legacy and recent data associated with the projects.

Capabilities of BIM 360:

a. The team of BIM 360 allows design teams for centralizing project design information and also provides easy access for the extended team members.
b. BIM 360 Docs makes a connection with the project teams by one app for publishing, managing, reviewing, marking up and approving all project plans, models and documents.
c. BIM 360 Glue gives access to the project teams and explores associative models either online or offline, review about the intelligent object properties and also take simple measurements.
d. BIM 360 Layout connects with BIM 360 Glue coordinated models for robotic total stations to streamline the layout process of construction.

Autodesk Forge has made an effort to help Autodesk BIM customers with the advantage Forge capabilities. Sam Nasir, an Autodesk Building Information Modeling Premium Support Specialist, has developed a step-by-step guide for the non-programmers for exporting Company data from BIM 360. This is helpful for the users who want to use BIM data in fusion with Enterprise resource Planning systems or ERP or charge different analyses through other systems.

Introduction of Step-by-step guide: The account administration of BIM 360 provides the capability of managing the information of companies that are participating in Autodesk BIM 360 projects. The information of the companies’ like location and trade can be added, edited and shared across BIM 360 products. Autodesk Forge can be utilized by account administrators for extracting the data of enterprise-level companies’ for analysis outside of BIM 360 Account Administration. For this utilization, Autodesk Forge needs some software development experience for advantage the APIs and designed for non-programmers.

Steps: At first create an Autodesk Forge App:

a. At first sign in Autodesk Developer Portal with the Autodesk Account. Then click on ‘SIGN IN'. Those who don’t have an account click on ‘SIGN Up’.
b. Then create an app by clicking on ‘CREATE APP’ option. Next select ‘BIM 360 API’ and enter the application name and description. Callback URL is needed to create an app.
c. Note down Client ID and Client Secret. These two things can be seen after creating the app in the new app page.

In the second step, connect Forge App to BIM 360 Account:

a. Now log in to the existing BIM 360 enterprise account with the same Autodesk Account, then navigate to ‘SETTINGS’ tab and ‘Apps & Integrations’ tab. Click the ‘Add Integration’ button.
b. Next select access to BIM 360 Account Administration and click on ‘Next’.
c. Select “I’m the developer” option and click on ‘Next’.
d. Now enter the Client ID, name, description and logo.
e. After note down the BIM 360 Account ID click on the ‘Save’ button.

In the third step, download and install Postman:

a. For downloading go to https://www.getpostman.com/apps.
b. Now download the setup file.
c. Next run the installer.

In the fourth step, export BIM 360 Companies to JSON file.

a. There would be an option for downloading a zip file that contains Postman Collection and Variables JSON files.
b. Unzip the file in Postman and click on ‘Import’ in the top left and import Postman Collection form ‘Postman_Collection.json’ in the unzipped folder.
c. Next click on the ‘Environment Options’ wheel in the top right corner and click on ‘Manage Environments’. Now click and import and select ‘Postman_Variables.json’ for importing ‘BIM360Export’ environment variables.
d. After that click on ‘BIM360Expert’ and enter Client ID and Secret and BIM Account Id and click ‘Update’.
e. After selecting ‘BIM360Expert’ in the environment drop down, select ‘Authenticate’ and click ‘Send’.
f. Select ‘Get BIM360 Companies’ and click on ‘Send and Download’ from the drop down.

In the fifth step, download and install PowerBI:

a. Go to https://powerbi.microsoft.com/desktop/.
b. Download the setup file and run it.

In the last step, analyze Companies data in PowerBI:

a. Now click on ‘Get Data’ button and select ‘JSON’ and click ‘Connect’. Now select the JSON file ‘response.json’ and click open.
b. In the Query Editor, click on ‘Convert to Table’ > ‘OK’> “Load more’> unheck “user original column name as prefix’>”OK”> ‘Close and Apply’.
c. Now from the Data view in the Field list click on ‘….’> ‘response’ and select ‘Copy Table’.
d. Select Pie Chart from the Report view in the Visualizations list. Drag the ‘country’ field.
e. Drag the ‘trade’ field to the Pie Chart’s Legend and Values fields.

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Is BIM Replacing Quantity Takeoff?

BIM plays an inevitable role in a construction project. From designing to planning, the new technology makes a quick approach that saves time and reduces human interventions. The most talking issue nowadays is – BIM is taking places of quantity takeoff.

It reveals the very truth that we are adopting the modern technology more than maintaining the conventional pathways. The age-old quantity takeoff has also been replaced by BIM. But the doubt that is hovering over is – does this shift bring any profitable outcome?

What is quantity takeoff and how does it work? Quantity takeoff is measured from 2D CAD drawing designed by professionals. These 2D designs work as a blue print of the work that is given to contractors as static PDF files. Constructors use software specifically designed for measuring areas of the drawing and presenting the quantity by identifying objects (windows, doors and more) from it. The objects generally pass through many conditions before presenting quantities of windows, doors and walls.

The approaches of BIM are reliable and trustworthy. But it does have the limitation as the application is basically designed for presenting 3D models of the planned construction. BIM directly estimates the quantity from the 3D model and this is why it eliminates the need for additional estimators. The information gathered from the 3D construction is considered to be error-free as compared to the information from the non-virtual 2D design.

The benefits BIM provides as quantity estimator are given below:

• BIM generates quantities based on the objects of the 3D model, offering a faster quantity takeoff process.
• Any modification will also change the quantities, so re-measurement is not required.
• Since everything is done as per the 3D design created virtually, less error and more accuracy is expected.

To identify the separate working area of BIM and quantity takeoff, you have to understand well how they work. BIM presents quantities of the objects while making designs and it uses objects based on the design. Traditional quantity takeoff relies more on static lines to define objects and quantities are measured accordingly. Though BIM includes both common and complex objects, it lacks in gathering site-specific data such as specific type of concrete foundation required for the project. Trade estimators play a very important role in bringing out the underlying detail of the construction. BIM generally ignores this part and it often presents an incomplete takeoff to you.

With the BIM projects, estimators deal with an accuracy of finding out the quantity objects easily. In the 2D world, trade estimators go through a complex process of understanding of the model. This eventually delays the final result to be presented to constructors. With BIM, trade estimators easily calculate necessary objects as the designs are clear and comprehensive.

The last point that establishes the truth whether BIM is replacing quantity takeoff specifies strictly the working area of the designers. They possess a little knowledge about materials and method as their sole responsibility is to design. So, it can be said that quantity takeoff has a strong root in the construction that cannot be shaken so easily. New tools are introduced in trade estimators to make the process perfect for instant measuring.

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A position is vacant for BIM Model Manager

Sydney based an internationally recognized practice having specialization in multi-disciplinary architecture, engineering and construction services, is seeking a BIM model manager on full time basis.

Duties and responsibilities: The deserving candidate should be engaged in formulating the building design and construction documentation in conjugation with the consultant team and arranged to client brief and project Revit BIM KPI’s.

Other major responsibilities range from technical input during all project stage with Revit BIM workflow and protocols organized and used throughout all stages of the design & documentation process. Besides, the manager has to provide useful guidance to different BIM project users as well as master BIM at the project level, and communicate any technical issues and/or systems enhancements to the technology team.

The deserving candidate should have the following skills and experience:

• Good knowledge in large mixed-use and/or commercial projects
• 5 to 10+ years’ experience in implementing Revit & BIM in the project
• Diploma in Architectural Technology or tertiary Architecture qualification
• Experience in developing families beneficial

The interested candidates can send their resume to duncan@cranfieldgroup.com.au or call on 0403 509 980.

The candidates having related Australian experience and working rights can apply for the post.

To apply online, click on the following link www.seek.com.au

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Autodesk App Store BIM 360 Hackathon

The scene of construction technology is changing everyday and the separation can be seen all around us. In the Autodesk BIM 360 Hackathon, Autodesk help the users to get a good start with new technologies for addressing the opportunities across the building and infrastructure lifecycle.

Autodesk has proudly announced about the Autodesk® App Store BIM 360 Hackathon which is a virtual and web based development. It is a nice way for quickly climbing the BIM 360+ Forge API integration learning curve with the Autodesk engineers virtually. There are some new features in the BIM 360 and it is a wonderful time for starting work on integration and to create the folders in BIM 360 using Forge. Anyone can now easily and quickly build a “presence” for his/her company and the data of apps within the use of BIM 360. The usefulness of it is described here.

The Autodesk® App Store BIM 360 Hackathon has two divisions:

1. A series of web training sessions which are related to the Autodesk Forge platform and BIM and available for everyone who is interested in learning about these APIs.

2. There is an online hackathon where developers can develop new apps which integrate with BIM 360 for the submission to Autodesk App Store. Reason for participating: The Hackathon will be work as a helpful hand for the users to get manual with the Autodesk cloud service BIM 360 which is built on the Autodesk Forge platform. There is the Autodesk Forge API for developing apps that will help in the construction management and enabling access to project data for all time, everywhere within the building construction lifecycle. Autodesk Forge is mainly the developer platform which is used by Autodesk for creating software for design, engineering, construction and manufacturing.

Participating in the online hackathon the participant would get a reward but there is a cost price. At first the participant has to create an app that will go with BIM 360 and then it had to submit in the App Store. The other reason of participating in BIM 360 is that there is going to be launched a BIM 360 app “Showcase” in the Autodesk App Store.

Autodesk App Store: By publishing the creative apps in the Autodesk App Store, and user could get fast access to the Autodesk customers who might be looking for the benefit from the solution. The Autodesk App Store is the best online source for millions of Autodesk customers for browsing and downloading or purchasing their needed apps.

Autodesk: Autodesk is for them loves creation and make creative things. Behind a high-performance car, an admired towering skyscraper, a smart phone or a great film there are chances to appreciate the works of the millions of the Autodesk customers as it gives the power to make anything.

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AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition is the best BIM Modeling Software on the market

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, just released AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition. It is the Bentley’s building information modeling (BIM) application that is specifically developed for creating projects of significant size and/or engineering complexity. These are normally defined by the challenges of integrating vertical construction and horizontal infrastructure (like roads, railways, utilities, etc.).

There is a useful feature called GenerativeComponents inside AECOsim Building Designer that offers computational design abilities to delve into iterative design ideas and embed design intent with design constraints and relationships for making design quality and performance superior.

The new AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition allocates a wide-ranging modeling environment with all of Bentley’s CONNECT Edition applications so that the process becomes simple for the engineers and architects to exchange complicated data that leads to loss of information and frequent translations, or even recourse to force-fitting a BIM application apart its premeditated use to model geometry, which is not possible with BIM intelligence.

AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition combines the work of architects, structural engineers, and MEP engineers in a single application, and now expands its scalability with the help of CONNECT Edition’s wide-ranging modeling environment. This latest release offers consistent, translation-free, intra-operability with Bentley’s full multi-discipline portfolio of design, analytical, and construction modeling applications.

All CONNECT Edition applications, along with MicroStation CONNECT Edition, take advantage of the deliverables production automation native in the CONNECT Edition’s documentation center. The documentation center significantly enhances the reliability, quality, and effectiveness of drawing set organization. AECOsim Building Designer can also allow for reality modeling, through which present conditions are procured with photos and/or scans and transformed into engineering-ready reality meshes with Bentley’s ContextCapture, delivering the actual geo-coordinated context directly into the AECOsim design environment.

AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition facilitates the users to enhance their productivity and to collaborate over multiple disciplines by distributing content and data in a constant workflow via a widespread modeling atmosphere. With this latest version of AECOsim Building Designer, it becomes possible to collaborate on projects of any scale or multidisciplinary complexity, and automate the formation of deliverables for all stakeholders.

To gather more information about AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition, please visit bentley.com

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ARCHICAD 21 — Step up your BIM!

GRAPHISOFT® is the renowned BIM software developer for the architects and designers and it has recently announced about ARCHICAD 21. It is upcoming release of its industry-leading BIM software solution.

This recent version of ARCHICAD has introduced the highly-predictable Stair Tool which is featured GRAPHISOFT’s patent-pending Predictive DesignTM technology. Those who are familiar with ARCHICAD know that every fresh release of this application rotate around a theme that is named after a development.

So the theme of this new ARCHICAD 21 is “Step Up Your BIM.” It is a very unique way of capturing both the two main features of this release: 1) dramatically improved, which has modeling staircases and their accompanying railings, 2) the arrival of truly smart design tools in ARCHICAD that significantly rise up the ability as a BIM tool.

According to the Director of Product Management at GRAPHISOFT Peter Temesvari, aptitude has become a basic differentiates for ARCHICAD from the beginning. The architects love ARCHICAD as the next-gen Stair Tool provided them a creative, profitable and enjoyable user experience. This Stair Tool works with the heavy lifting in the background that makes sure that the architect’s stair design complies with the significant global and local design standards. This is turning the painful tasks in fun tasks. The GRAPHISOFT organization is also looking for further refined ARCHICAD’s best-in-class OPEN BIM workflows in this current version so that it can be made versatile collaboration in a very easy process. The features are described here that can improve the working skills.

1. New Stair and Railing Tools: One of the most difficult tasks in architecture is designing the stairs from the stair has complied with the binding standards. The uncountable emphasis needs to sync design intent with these standards in a limited building which has meant tedious and manual work till now. This tool lengthens architect’s creativity with the automatic validation against the human ergonomics. With the help of this tool Architects can do the creative progress with placing stairs within simple polyline input and by choosing from different design options. The software offers selected best options which fit both the user’s graphical input and the chosen standards by solving a problem in different ways. Perceptive graphical methods give access to the users for easily work with the stair’s shape and customizing structural and finished components. The Railing Tool with the one click input create a readily associative railing with stairs whose posts and panels can be authorized as patterns or can be customized one by one.

2. Updated CineRender Engine: Maxon has created this CineRender which offers for the architects combined, photo-realistic distributive options in the BIM context. The newest version of ARCHICAD 21 has introduced Light Mapping and Secondary GI methods for more practical yet fast distributive.

3. Element Classification System: Any ARCHICAD model is like a central database which stores all project data and makes it accessible for any project stakeholder. It was not present in the earlier version of ARCHICAD; the earlier one provided a certain set of Element Classifications. But this new version introduces a flexible way for classifying elements which supports each national or company-standard classification system and these classifications are base for intelligent OPEN BIM workflows that provide extraordinary interoperability in disciplines. These classifications can be transferred between projects through XML file format.

4. IFC Model Referencing: The IFC files as headlines into ARCHICAD are programmed as reference content. The inserted IFC reference content can be filtered by Model filtering like Structural or MEP or by element selection. This IFC model content can be modernized easily from the linked source file and in the case of broken link, the elements of the modules can be edited as normal ARCHICAD elements.

5. Collision Detection: There has become a change of BIM as the existing workflow and architects are hugely receiving consultant information in a BIM format. For helping architects in fulfilling their role as main coordinator of the model, Collision Detection has become a definite part of the feature set that starts with ARCHICAD 21.

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Update available for AutoCAD 2018.1.1

There has arrived a new update version of AutoCAD 2018 for the customers in the Autodesk Desktop App. This update is offering new software improvements and tools for simplifying the workflow and improving productivity. It also helps in identifying new features quickly in the user interface as the 4k monitor and 3D performance improvements.

It works with named views and layout viewports easier than ever and to work at first select a view from the new view gallery and place it onto the layout. It will help creating a layout viewport, making it active, selecting a view, setting the scale, resizing the viewport and locking it all in a single step. There have been improvements to the Layer Manager and other Layer controls make it easier to know overrides and to restore them to their default values.

With the improvement of AutoCAD 2018.1 update the navigation speed of 3D models also improved. Also the 3D graphics performance for the Wireframe, Realistic and Shaded visuals styles has increased. The most used commands those have offered the greatest benefit from these performance improvements are 3DORBIT, ZOOM, PAN and VSCURRENT.

But the update also has contained some kind of fixes for the reported issues. The Autodesk team has already working on some issues and has fixed the followings:

a. There were occasional crashes while opening the block editor now they no longer occur.
b. The occasional crashes in selecting or creating a non associative hatch have been solved.
c. Stooped the occasional crashes while clicking the Insert View button on the ribbon in some drawings.
d. The occasional crashes while modifying some dimension styles no longer occur.
e. While editing the grip of a spotlight in some drawings the raised occasional crashes no longer occur.
f. Occasional crashes in opening DXF files containing Xrefs has stopped.

But the aspect position of a block stays same after editing the block once.

PDF/Plot:

a. The PDF files those were conspired from some drawings has displaying properly now in Adobe reader.
b. Breed patterns in the PDF files are dependable with lineweight.
c. Raster images are conspired correctly when Shadeplot is set to the Rendered option.

General:

a. The AEC property-set data in DWG files could be easily exported to 3D DWF files.
b. Some Pro/E files are also be suceessfully importd into AutoCAD.

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Vectorworks 2018 is just released to improve your BIM workflow

Vectorworks, Inc., the leading BIM software developer, just released Vectorworks 2018 in English language. This newest version comprises of Vectorworks Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Designer and Fundamentals, as well as Vision.

In Vectorworks 2018, the user workflows have been significantly improved. In BIM, it can be viewed in the direct section and elevation editing and multiview capabilities as well as in all the Wall tool improvements that facilitate the designers to model wall constructions in an efficient manner in order that the walls are visible precisely in plan, section and elevation drawings. There are other instances like site model contour editing and enhanced seating sections.

Another exciting feature is the incorporation of analysis and design. With the inclusion of Braceworks to the entertainment portfolio that is packed with the industry-leading Spotlight and Vision software, entertainment professionals get the ability to finish their complete workflow that ranges from design to documentation to production, in a single interface. With Vectorworks worksheet, the entertainment professionals will be able to generate custom reports out of model or drawing data.

After the release of 2018 in all countries, ten additional localized-language versions will be introduced.

Given below, some of the improved features of Vectorworks 2018 :

• Multiple drawing views: Apply multiple views of a project concurrently, and start work in one view pane and complete it in another. Interchange easily among viewports, views and visibility settings — just arrange panes and view them at the same time. Quickly measure the effect of a design change across 3D, plan, section and elevation views, and even set up a rendering in one view whereas working in another.

• Direct section and elevation editing: From viewports, edit models directly: add openings, arrange and allocate windows, change the position of doors across multiple layers, restructure walls etc. Modify the 3D views while in the section to check how edits concurrently impact plans and model views. And, generate good-looking and precise drawings within seconds.

Some crucial enhancements for architecture :-

• Superior graphic output for architectural documents: Create documentation from a BIM file in a better manner. Superior graphic controls inside section views of wall joins and wall, or slab and roof components offers the adaptability to instantly acquire superior-quality documentation from a 3D model.
• Strong wall modeling options: Manage individual component heights by instance, add information to them, add component caps and co-jointly edit numerous selected components from an user-friendly dialog box. Besides, rapidly create wall graphic display changes with the new ability to substitute all attributes by class.
• Title block customization in a simple way: Adjust items like variables and orientation, select from an infinite set of information to contain in a title block, and employ styles to more easily control various title blocks across one or multiple projects.
• Simplified drawing distribution: Publish drawings depending on issue date and a firmly integrated new title block object; produce and allocate drawing sets, issue information and reports all through the extent of a project; and make the typically time consuming method of generating a BIM project or lighting a stage.

In order to gather more information on Vectorworks 2018, click on the following link www.vectorworks.net

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How to create a 3D trash can model in AutoCAD

Musafu Cad comes with another informative autocad tutorial. In this tutorial, you will learn the tips to create the design of a trush can (garbage basket) in 3D with autocad. The tutorial is designed for beginner’s autocad users.

The dimension in the rendered image can be provided with texture editor. You need to click at left part (where TEXTURE EDITOR is inscribed). Subsequently, you have to edit sample size value or Offset.

The similar process should be followed with MATERIALS EDITOR. If you enquire about render size, you can perform that in Render presets manager, just type RENDERPRESETS.

To get online demonstration of the process, go through the following video.

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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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