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In this video, we will see how ARES Commander can create 2D drawings in DWG format from a BIM project. We can import BIM files in RVT format of Revit, or IFC format. We can even combine different BIM files to mix the BIM information from different sources.
Export the properties of selected BIM objects into tables in the drawing or CSV files for spreadsheets with ARES Commander. Select BIM entities manually, or from the filters in the BIM Navigator, and extract their BIM data. The wizard helps you to isolate only the properties you need. The data can be inserted as a table in the drawing or exported to a CSV file for use in Excel or other programs.
ARES CAD Software now let’s you select objects and read their BIM properties. While viewing and rotating the BIM project you can select objects. The BIM Navigator will highlight them in the Elements tree and the Properties Palette will display their BIM properties. Alternatively, you may select the objects from the elements tree and they will be highlighted in the project.
Graebert announced the availability of the BIMflow Pack for ARES Commander OEM. The ARES CAD platform is used by a multitude of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to build vertical applications on top of the ARES engine. The OEM versions of ARES are customized and rebranded as per the needs of the ISVs that can leverage from the CAD features of ARES to concentrate their efforts on industry-specific features to be added on top.
The initial BIMFlow performs these tasks:
Imports RVT and IFC files
Examines read-only IFC properties with Properties panel
Toggles elements of BIM models with the new BIM Navigator panel
Extracts IFC data in CSV format to create in-drawing tables for quantity take-offs and reports
Generates 2D sections of BIM models
Graebert is no stranger to BIM [building information modeling], even though the company is never associated with the ArchiCADs and Vectorworks of the world. It has a subsidiary named iSurvey whose SiteMaster software is used to measure and model the interiors of buildings and kitchens in a BIM context for six years now.
Graebert was invited on June 9, 2016, to present BIM surveying examples for Facility Management at buildingSMART event in Essen, Germany. BuildingSMART is the organization developing and maintaining the BIM international standards such as the IFC. During its presentation, Graebert emphasized on the advantage of mobile solutions like SiteMaster, working with a tablet and hand laser generating not only BIM models but enriched data for managing facilities. Read more about SiteMaster here
Keynote Christian Rust and Thomas Prinzen from Graebert’s Digital BIM measurement for facility management participated in the 14th BIM User Day on June 9, 2016 in Essen, Germany. Learn more about the event here. (Link no longer available)
Building information modeling (BIM) is how architects today design buildings — or at least that is the hope of CAD software firms. Because of how BIM software is implemented, it is highly incompatible with competitors, and so this effectively locks in entire regions to a single supplier. When one CAD vendor gains a significant foothold in the region with its BIM software, clients and customers need to use the exact same software or else suffer the inability to land work. The following article is an abstract of the eBook ‘Best CAD Practices’ by Ralph Grabowski. Graebert is happy to share with you some of the experience accumulated by Ralph as a CAD expert and as compiled in his eBook for which the reference can be found at the bottom of the page. Feel free to share feedback in the comment section below. There is a solution: IFC. Industry foundation classes are
SiteMaster BIM is a surveying solution to create in the most efficient and accurate way on-site as-built 2D floorplans and/or 3D building designs in DWG directly and automatically from the measures taken with your laser distance meter. This video explains how to change window properties in SiteMaster BIM. Our solution can be run on any Windows computer or more interestingly on a Windows tablet you can eventually wear as a watch (eg on a 8″ tablet). The distances and angles are sent by Bluetooth from the distance meter which allows you to draw very fast and with the highest accuracy. To learn more about SiteMaster BIM, visit our Youtube Channel: GraebertTV
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