The architects, engineers and builders can use Bondor's BIM product library package to make conceptual design more powerful

Bondor, Australia’s leading provider in complete thermal building solutions and lightweight architectural panels, just introduced their BIM (Building Information Modelling) product library package which can help the architects, engineers and builders to have superior design conceptualization through some insulated panel systems. More than that Bondor has unrivalled experience in design assistance and construction.

With the advent of BIM concent, the processes for specifying as well as modeling projects become simplified. In this regard Bondor’s BIM product library package will be very useful for specifiers to integrate these inventive panelling systems into their projects easily.

The builders can experience huge savings in terms of cost, ime and efficiency over their construction through these insulated panels. As for example, a single layer of insulated panel will substitute frames, support, extra linings and numerous layers of bulk insulation in several incidents.

The professional can avail Bondor’s product library through BIM to effortlessly incorporate a wide array of wall and roof panel systems into their design from the initial phase or replace Bondor materials into prevailing design. All the drawings & objects can be pulled out from Bondor's comprehensive library and at the same time panel orientation, colour and profile can be adjusted to make each concept realistic as well as ensure the applicability of the each product to the project.

Bondor has tied up with some renowned 3d software development companies to develop this BIM product library. Bondor’s product range is compatible with bothArchiCAD and Autodesk Revit programs.

The users can access a brief tutorial on the program as well as both ArchiCAD and Autodesk Revit library files from Bondor’s website(http://www.bondor.com.au/).

Image Courtesy: www.bondor.com.au

Source: www.architectureanddesign.com.au

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Rajib Dey

www.bimoutsourcing.com

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Tekla Structures 20 to Improve Construction Workflow

Atlanta: Well known for providing BIM software to the global engineering and construction markets, Tekla announced the availability of Tekla Structures 20. Tekla assured that this latest version of Tekla’s BIM software, Structures 20 Software, will accelerate the construction information and workflow by rendering the means to organize models properly, prevent structural clashes and manage tasks. Besides, the constructible models developed with Tekla can integrate more detailed information than it could have done earlier.

Tekla Structures, launched in 2004, helps to model, detail, fabricate and build various buildings, bridges, and sports complexes. The software is specifically designed to work flawlessly with Tekla BIMsight, which is a free online tool and portal for construction project collaboration.

With BIM penetrating the construction industry processes, architectural trends, today, are producing highly complex shapes, buildings are incorporating more refined technology, and information exchange is becoming progressively more essential. And Tekla Structures 20 software is competent to meet this demand by increasing the capacity of constructible Tekla models to smoothly manage huge amounts of information required to precisely reflect the detail included in complex build structures.

The new tools support better information management as Tekla Structures 20 offers more detailed information and flexibility to modeling, while minimizing the requirement for manual data transfer. The software enhances the flow of information from design, purchasing and production to the shop floor. It also offers various links to architectural and design solutions to eliminate the technical and compatibility obstacles that include workflow between subcontractors and project teams employing varied types of applications.

Tekla Structures 20 improves project team communication and collaboration by offering the detail required for building complex structures, providing process-improving tools, and smoothly working with other software applications, and thus delivering on the promise of BIM for the construction industry.

Tekla Structures 20 provides several improved tools that simplify the management of the massive amounts of constructible building information required for contemporary structures:

• Organizer: It helps to deliver efficient model information management and better automation.
• Task Manager: It offers an organized method to plan detailing, fabrication and erection on site.
• Clash Check Manager: It permits communicating, assigning, coordinating and preventing structural conflicts before they appear on site to save money and time.

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Tuhin Maity

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IMAGINiT’s Scan to BIM 2014.1 Released

IMAGINiTs Scan to BIM 2014.1 software has been released on a rental basis for renovation and retro?t projects. The new version of the Scan to BIM software supports users in creating 3D building information model (BIM) in Autodesk’s Revit building design software from point cloud data.

IMAGINiT, a division of Rand Worldwide, an IT and engineering design firm is based in Based in Framingham, Massachusetts. It is also considered as one of largest integrators of Autodesk 3D design and engineering software in the world. Revit has features for architectural design, construction, MEP and structural engineering. Autodesk ReCap, the point cloud engine for Revit, merges point cloud and photogrammetry, to allow designers to view and use bigger datasets.

Only available as a division of the Autodesk Building Design Suite 2014 Premium and Ultimate editions, Autodesk’s Revit software is exclusively created for BIM. The Scan to BIM 2014.1 plug-in for Revit 2012, 2013 or 2014 helps users to work inside Revit for creating and validating a model from a point cloud with automated recognition and positioning of native Revit geometry and architectural elements like columns & walls, and MEP elements like linework, pipes, conduits, and ducts.

In Scan to BIM, IMAGINiT has generated a rental option that permits small firms and irregular users of point clouds- architects, mechanical engineers, scanning providers and plant designers- to improve productivity and profitability by employing Scan to BIM 2014.1 without paying for the conventional perpetual license. Scan to BIM software allows users to work more efficiently by leveraging the data in Revit to create elements directly.

The new release also includes features like Section Box Tool, Quality Assurance Tool to enhance modeling efficiency with point clouds directly in Revit, and Create from CAD Tool. It also allows users to view point clouds based on color, elevation, intensity, and evaluate differences by comparing the Revit model against the point cloud.

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Be more collaborative during conceptual design with SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual and Social Innovation

SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual facilitates the 3D professional to obtain a protected, intuitive and interchangeable collaborative atmosphere from one interface. The 3D professional will be capable of presenting any ideas efficiently, offering new innovation, and grasping and handling requirements, feedback and comments from every concerned person.

Towards the indispensable part of SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual solution, the 3D professional can produce unrestricted numbers of communities where they control who can partake. These refer to the secure and controlled surroundings where the 3D professionals can concentrate on interaction and collaboration on several projects involving various project stakeholders simultaneously. Get to the final design more rapidly and cut downs lead time for the customer. Blogs, wikis, iQuestions are some examples for advancing social innovation within communities.

Social innovation as a part of SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual allows the 3D professionals and other team associates for having a completely implanted, intuitive way to impeccably work together while performing on their concepts all at once. With the help of a web browser, various other people from different corners of the world, can avail the communities and involve in the expansion of your product as well as conceptual design activities.

To transform the collaboration process more dynamic, the 3D professionals can utilize synchronized, instantaneous 3D messaging that is seamlessly implanted within SOLIDWORKS Mechanical Conceptual and reachable via a Web browser.

Social innovation empowers the 3D professionals to be connected with their project stakeholders before time, present innovations with their clients, and gather feedback instantly, serving them to execute their conceptual design in the proper way early and providing them competitive edge in the market.

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How BIM was applied in the $1.85 billion new Royal Adelaide Hospital project

Royal Adelaide, a high-tech hospital in South Australia is the biggest building ever constructed in Australia. In this project near about 1,300 workers perform onsite to make plan and get the 10-level hospital ready to be introduced in 2016.

Some hi-tech methods were applied in the construction processes of the hospital through the Building Information Management system incorporated with myriad computer systems and numerous construction specifications.

Under this system the blueprint from paper has been shifted into a 3D computer system which enables contractors and staff to verify efficiently through tablets or smart phones. The 3D system helps in showcasing a wide array of building parts to be updated in real time as construction progresses. This consecutively enhanced the scopes for modules to be created off site involving supreme accurateness - then assembled on jobsite.

So, it can be said that the BIM system alias ‘virtual construction’ has has fundamentally transformed the construction industry.

Now the several users can sign up and avail the 3D images rather than searching for paper drawings, and all will be updated in real time.

The 3D approach will facilitate the prefabrication off-site, and save huge time and space at the construction site. Lots of incorporated models are transferred into the master 3D model that can decrease the possibility for inaccuracies compared to contractors working off paper plans.

The 3D designs necessitate each item to provide a code, and ensure that such items can be identified easily for future reference or preservation. A wide array of coded items varies from light fittings and furniture through to architectural fittings. It also integrates operating manuals for each item, ending the requirements to look for booklets.

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Infinite Skills Inc offers an exclusive training video on revit rendering and visualization

Infinite Skills Inc, the leading software training provider, just releases “Revit - Rendering and Visualization Tutorial,” a superior level training program that focuses on Revit's tools for generating photorealistic, information-rich, 3D models concerning any building projects.

Ed Cotey, a commercial interior design, a construction project manager, a CAD consultant as well as a college professor, performs as the course other. He also conducts classes on Revit, AutoCAD and Sketchup at the college level.

This training guide is very useful for advanced level Revit users to sharpen their skills with all the elements of producing and rendering highly detailed Revit construction models as well as designing 3d models of building & their components.

Cotey starts with the fundamental setup for visualizations, highlighting how to make an exterior perspective view, adjust the camera view, generate an interior perspective, and build and export a complete walk-through.

Cotey then explains lighting features, providing details on how to set up a solar study, characterize the site's true north and sun path, and make still and single-day, along with multi-day solar studies.

At the end of the course, Cotey briefly describes how to organize an exterior view for rendering, how to manage the rendering with settings, how to deal with light groups, and lots other.

The participants can produce consequential analytical visualizations communicating designs in most realistic settings possible after successfully undergoing the course.

Free demo videos and a full list of course contents are accessible on the Revit - Rendering and Visualization training page of the Infinite Skills.

The users can download Infinite Skills offers its Revit - Rendering and Visualization Training Video directly from the company website at a retail price of $24.95.

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Home Builders can produce a smarter estimate with BIM Pipeline

BIM Pipeline refers to a web supported, rules motivated material management and estimation system that applies BIM data to directly undertake comprehensive take-offs.

BIM Pipeline facilitates builders to control BIM data for producing complete master plan estimates through delta BOM reports for options, lot specific as built reports to directly cut purchase orders as well as confine changes focused on customer to track client customizations, all self-governing of the source of the BIM data. Builders can now find a way out to bridge the historical gap proficiently & perfectly amid design and estimation and minimize cycle times.

BIM Pipeline was specially designed for home builders to perform exact material takeoffs and rapidly understand their construction costs. The module based design facilitates builders to opt for the features for fulfilling their current goals.

BIM Pipeline uses and clarifies BIM data directly from numerous leading BIM applications like AutoCAD Architecture, Revit, Vertex BD, and VisionRez. Then it links design, sales, estimation, and purchasing by incorporating with back office system directly. It also outputs to Excel or homogeneous XML for incorporating with other back office systems.

BIM Pipeline comes up with three different modules as mentioned below:-

Builder module: It allows the users to handle all the consistent assets concerning a home builder and manage exactly what’s getting built.

Cloud estimating module: With Cloud Estimation the users will be able to get it all together by transmitting the BIM direct data to a full bill of materials.

Costing module: With the Costing Module you can prevent redundant tasks by using a complete BOM to align with various vendor's costs and establish a true cost to construct.

BIM Pipeline offers the following benefits to construction professionals:-

• Connect design to estimating for precise automated takeoffs
• Scale operations devoid of adding staff
• Enhance net margins
• Leverage the identified costs of a production builder, whereas facilitating customer specific changes to be happened and remain profitable.
• Commanding rules based estimating
• Job estimates provided "as built"
• On-the-fly Delta +/- estimates for model/options
• Recognized custom changes added to budget
• Constantly or quickly progress into BIM technology at your own pace with a flexible 3 phased implementation approach.
• Better manage options, communities, houses, and jobs.

Request a Demo www.cgvisions.com

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BIM Lean Construction and Its Advantages

Combining Lean construction with BIM is a far- sighted and prudent approach which results in various benefits. BIM lean construction refers to a construction process development which provides high value in the least possible resources. BIM lean construction principle facilitates all types of construction projects. Combining both the techniques helps in meeting unique requirements of each project and promotes smooth workflow.

BIM lean construction projects include residential and commercial buildings, industrial architectures, hospitals and medical units, stadiums, airport terminals, bridges, tunnels and various other constructions. Some of the advantages of BIM lean construction are as follows-

• Reduced use of resources
• Enhanced design integrity
• Better flexibility in the projects
• Improved building life cycle maintenance
• Better flow of project information across different stages
• Precise project scheduling and cost optimization
• Efficient and collaborative team efforts of experts
• Stress on sustainability and energy efficiency

For comprehensive BIM facilities that meet client requirement, advanced BIM software tools such as Autodesk Revit, ArchiCAD, Artlantis, SolidWorks and Bentley Microstation etc. are used. The various BIM services that support lean construction as mentioned below-

• Development of BIM schedules
• Generating shop drawings of buildings
• Development of building floor and roof plans
• MEP coordination
• Photo-realistic rendering of building models
• Facilities management
• Project management
• Cost estimation

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CAD Drafter & Designer

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BIM (Building Information Modeling) Products

Design and Documentation

Revit Architecture
This software was formerly termed as Revit building. The software is ideal for architects and building designers to analyse design concept early in the architectural engineering process from conceptual design to construction drawings and design. It is purpose build for building information modeling as 3D building objects are saved in .RFA files and imported into the RVT database as .RVT files for hoarding BIM models.

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Revit Structure
Revit® Structure software provides physical and analytical structural modeling and facilitates integrated structural analysis & design from engineering to documentation.

Revit structure provides multidisciplinary coordination and reduces costly redlining to detect errors prior they show up in the field. This leads to higher profit margins.

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Revit MEP
Revit® MEP software generates building information modeling (BIM) and construction document solution for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineers. The software analyze, optimize and visualize building systems alongwith Duct and Pipe System Modeling. With the parametric change management technology Revit MEP modify, update model views and sheets to keep the document and project consistent within Revit-based workflows.

With the features like in-built analysis capabilities and interoperability the software provides better decision making and building performance analysis support for the engineer. Thus the software creates and environmentally conscious designs.
Revit MEP contains heating and cooling loads analysis tools to execute energy analysis, evaluate system loads, and produce heating and cooling load reports for a project.

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AutoCAD Civil 3D
AutoCAD® Civil 3D® software provides great advantages for Civil engineers as the software applies building Information Modeling (BIM) to create transportation, land development, and environmental projects digitally before the commencement of actual construction.

By applying this software the civil engineers can complete the transportation, land development, and environmental projects quickly and more efficiently.

Civil 3D models can be applied for stromwater & geospatial analysis to generate more sustainable designs. The software can also be applied for street and highway design modeling, dynamic earthwork calculation and quantity takeoff.

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AutoCAD
It is one of the leading 2D and 3D CAD tools that contain thousands of available add-ons for 3D CAD design, drafting, modeling, architectural, construction & engineering drawing.

The inbuilt Parametric Drawing Tools generate both geometric and dimensional constraints to make sure that specific relationships and measurements stay persistent even as the objects are modified.

With this software the engineers can draw anything in 2D and afterwards add a height to every object to get a 3D object instantly.

AutoCAD lets the user to wipe out and get a clean sheet with every modification that is requested or allowed. This leads to produce methodically clean and professional drawings.

There is lots of version ranging from AutoCAD 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2000 R14 & AutoCAD LT.

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AutoCAD LT

AutoCAD LT can be termed as AutoCAD’s lower-cost 2D drafting sibling. It is the top-selling 2D drafting and detailing product that contains industry standard 2D drawing tools.

Though AutoCAD LT is built for 2D drafting but it can display 3D models created in AutoCAD.

Creating in the genuine DWGTM file format provides stability and compatibility and boost the productivity.

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Posted by Rajib Dey
Business Development
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