This document compares Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 and Autodesk Land Desktop 2005 software for civil engineering projects. It summarizes a project that has experienced significant time delays and budget overruns due to frequent design changes required in Land Desktop. The author reengineered a section of the project in Civil 3D and found that features like dynamic surfaces and objects saved numerous hours by automatically updating linked designs when changes were made. Overall, Civil 3D allowed for faster, easier redesigns that reduced time and costs compared to the repetitive, disconnected processes in Land Desktop.
This document discusses CAD solutions for civil engineering projects. It outlines how CAD is used across various areas including 2D drafting, 3D modeling, estimation and costing, structural analysis, land development, steel detailing, and project planning. Popular CAD software used in civil engineering are discussed for each area, such as AutoCAD for 2D drafting, Revit and 3ds Max for 3D modeling, Autodesk Quantity Take-off for estimation, STAAD Pro and ANSYS for structural analysis, AutoCAD Civil 3D and MX Road for land development, ProSteel for steel detailing, and Primavera, Microsoft Project, and Asta Power Project for project planning and management. The document encourages learning CAD skills
How to Create GIS and BIM InteroperabilitySafe Software
Discover how to solve the most common problems with BIM and GIS integration. See how to easily move data between IFC, Autodesk Revit, SketchUp 2015, Esri ArcGIS, AutoCAD, and more. You'll also learn how to use automated techniques to get simplified BIM geometries into GIS, combine attribute or tabular data with existing models, perform space extraction, QC data, and much more.
The document discusses the emergence of 3D digital cities as a convergence of building information modeling (BIM), computer-aided design (CAD), and geographic information systems (GIS). 3D digital cities combine mapping, building, civil, and utility data into accurate 3D models that can be visualized, analyzed, and shared. They are part of municipal sustainability initiatives and help analyze projects, visualize designs, and simulate city planning initiatives. The trend is moving towards more detailed real-time navigation and analysis of intelligent 3D city models.
IRJET-3D,4D and 5D Building Information Modeling for Commercial Building Proj...IRJET Journal
This document discusses the history and development of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology. It describes how BIM originated from earlier computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software in the 1950s and 1960s. Key developments in BIM software and standards over time are outlined from the 1970s to present day. The document also explains how BIM enables 3D, 4D and 5D modeling for construction projects. It provides details on the data required and flow for 3D, 4D and 5D BIM models. Benefits of BIM for visualization, coordination and construction are highlighted.
Tips and tricks to make your revit drawings look greatspinoy cadplus
This document provides tips and techniques for improving the visual presentation of drawings and models created in Autodesk Revit. It discusses setting project-wide defaults for elements like materials, lines, and location to maintain consistency. It also demonstrates how to leverage Revit's graphic display options and visual styles to enhance views in different ways. Specific techniques covered include using surface patterns, cut patterns, and transparency to layer elements and indicate depth. The document aims to help designers develop their artistic style and create drawings that clearly communicate designs in both construction documents and presentations.
BIM Workflows: How to Build from CAD & GIS for InfrastructureSafe Software
BIM workflows give facilities managers, architects, and engineers key information for better-informed infrastructure planning and management. But how do you migrate to a BIM system when your current data is stored in CAD? Through a real-world international airport example, find out how CAD and engineering data can be centralized in a Document Management System (Autodesk Vault) and GIS database (SQL Server Spatial) using FME, and learn how to create BIM workflows from CAD data.
The document discusses software used in civil engineering. It begins by noting how technology has improved efficiency in the field. It then outlines several categories of software including architectural, structural, and project management. Specific software like AutoCAD, Revit, Lumion, SketchUp, Staad Pro, ETABS, SAP2000, TEKLA, ANSYS, Primavera, and Microsoft Project are described. The conclusion emphasizes how software has reduced construction time from 1-2 years to 6-9 months on projects.
This document discusses CAD solutions for civil engineering projects. It outlines how CAD is used across various areas including 2D drafting, 3D modeling, estimation and costing, structural analysis, land development, steel detailing, and project planning. Popular CAD software used in civil engineering are discussed for each area, such as AutoCAD for 2D drafting, Revit and 3ds Max for 3D modeling, Autodesk Quantity Take-off for estimation, STAAD Pro and ANSYS for structural analysis, AutoCAD Civil 3D and MX Road for land development, ProSteel for steel detailing, and Primavera, Microsoft Project, and Asta Power Project for project planning and management. The document encourages learning CAD skills
How to Create GIS and BIM InteroperabilitySafe Software
Discover how to solve the most common problems with BIM and GIS integration. See how to easily move data between IFC, Autodesk Revit, SketchUp 2015, Esri ArcGIS, AutoCAD, and more. You'll also learn how to use automated techniques to get simplified BIM geometries into GIS, combine attribute or tabular data with existing models, perform space extraction, QC data, and much more.
The document discusses the emergence of 3D digital cities as a convergence of building information modeling (BIM), computer-aided design (CAD), and geographic information systems (GIS). 3D digital cities combine mapping, building, civil, and utility data into accurate 3D models that can be visualized, analyzed, and shared. They are part of municipal sustainability initiatives and help analyze projects, visualize designs, and simulate city planning initiatives. The trend is moving towards more detailed real-time navigation and analysis of intelligent 3D city models.
IRJET-3D,4D and 5D Building Information Modeling for Commercial Building Proj...IRJET Journal
This document discusses the history and development of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology. It describes how BIM originated from earlier computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software in the 1950s and 1960s. Key developments in BIM software and standards over time are outlined from the 1970s to present day. The document also explains how BIM enables 3D, 4D and 5D modeling for construction projects. It provides details on the data required and flow for 3D, 4D and 5D BIM models. Benefits of BIM for visualization, coordination and construction are highlighted.
Tips and tricks to make your revit drawings look greatspinoy cadplus
This document provides tips and techniques for improving the visual presentation of drawings and models created in Autodesk Revit. It discusses setting project-wide defaults for elements like materials, lines, and location to maintain consistency. It also demonstrates how to leverage Revit's graphic display options and visual styles to enhance views in different ways. Specific techniques covered include using surface patterns, cut patterns, and transparency to layer elements and indicate depth. The document aims to help designers develop their artistic style and create drawings that clearly communicate designs in both construction documents and presentations.
BIM Workflows: How to Build from CAD & GIS for InfrastructureSafe Software
BIM workflows give facilities managers, architects, and engineers key information for better-informed infrastructure planning and management. But how do you migrate to a BIM system when your current data is stored in CAD? Through a real-world international airport example, find out how CAD and engineering data can be centralized in a Document Management System (Autodesk Vault) and GIS database (SQL Server Spatial) using FME, and learn how to create BIM workflows from CAD data.
The document discusses software used in civil engineering. It begins by noting how technology has improved efficiency in the field. It then outlines several categories of software including architectural, structural, and project management. Specific software like AutoCAD, Revit, Lumion, SketchUp, Staad Pro, ETABS, SAP2000, TEKLA, ANSYS, Primavera, and Microsoft Project are described. The conclusion emphasizes how software has reduced construction time from 1-2 years to 6-9 months on projects.
Presentation About of Revit Architecture Desing and History, Then Revit Architecture Course provides by Croma campus one of the best training institutes.
During our What's New in Revit 2017 we'll be diving into new features and enhancements. During this presentation we will see improvements to navigation, sheet views, revisions, as well as performance improvements. Please join Ian Donovan, Autodesk Software Account Manager, and Curt Egli, Sr. Software Application Specialist as they walk us through the 2017 changes.
This document discusses various engineering software used for modeling, drafting, design, and analysis in civil engineering. It describes software for 2D and 3D CAD like AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit, and Maya. It also covers analysis software like SAP 2000, STAAD Pro, and ETABS for designing and analyzing structures. Additionally, it mentions software tools for specialized tasks such as GIS for maps, SW-Road for road design, MATLAB for graphs and calculations, and MS Project and Oracle for project management and cost estimation.
This presentation provides an overview of AutoCAD, BIM, Revit Architecture, and Staad Pro. It discusses the history and features of AutoCAD, how it has evolved over 33 major releases. BIM is introduced as a process for digital representation of physical structures to create a shared knowledge resource. Revit Architecture is presented as BIM software specifically designed for building information modeling in the architectural field. Finally, Staad Pro is discussed as structural analysis and design software that can be used to generate 3D models, analyze, and design structures according to various international codes.
Design and Development of BIM on GIS Interoperability Open Platformslhead1
ecently, Construction data has evolved from CAD to BIM and BIM becomes more important data used in various fields like facility management and 3D GIS construction, so there is an increasing need for developing technologies that can be effectively used in post-construction steps. There are lots of trials to model and service not only geographical terrain and outdoor but also indoor space. From this perspective, establishment of BIM and GIS interoperable method and development of service platform became the most important core technology. On this research, spatial data linkage model has been devised to smoothly implement the interoperability between two different kinds of data - BIM data and GIS data.
The platform basically displays BIM data based on 3D GIS such as WorldWind Java developed by NASA and Google Earth. It is also possible to interactively move in and out the buildings and also to see the outside of the building when a user is inside the building and inside of the building while a user is outside the building. Besides, the platform makes users look up the objects of buildings and properties of objects one by one, floor by floor, by similar properties, or all. Users can also edit the properties of objects and do spatial queries for analysis of the data.
This project is co research project of KICT(Korea Institute of Construction Technology) and Gaia3D and working closely together to develop BIM and GIS Interoperability Open-Platform for the integration of BIM and GIS data since 2012 and have developed the system for smooth operation of big size 3D BIM data and GIS data about plenty of buildings in areas or cities, not just one building. Now, core technologies to integrate BIM into GIS are successfully developed and we will keep improving the system step by step. KICT and Gaia3D together have designed and developed BIM and GIS interoperability open-platform based on the spatial data linkage model. Links between BIM data and GIS data enables efficient and seamless management of indoor and outdoor information at the same time and it also could be used for various services such as real estates and AR (Augmented Reality) services. Gaia3D develops 3D facility management system for Antarctic King Sejong science station to efficiently manage the facilities and publicly promote the station using BIM on GIS system with open source GIS software.
BIM Conversion & Analysis Workshop: Story of the I-35W Bridge CollapseSafe Software
The document discusses capabilities of the FME software for working with 3D geospatial data and CityGML models. It provides examples of workflows for converting BIM and CAD files to CityGML and analyzing 3D city models. Specifically, it describes how FME was used to convert a Revit model of the collapsed I-35W bridge in Minneapolis to a CityGML model and link bridge components to external semantic data about the bridge failure for analysis.
The document discusses how FME software can be used to extract information from BIM models and connect it with other systems like GIS. It provides examples of workflows at the University of Washington that use FME to automatically sync and update data between CAD/BIM and GIS systems. It also outlines scenarios from HOK and demonstrates how FME can be used with a Revit plugin to export BIM data to formats like PDFs and KML files.
Role of Building Information Modelling in ConstructionAbhijeet Kulkarni
This project shows that how BIM is implemented in construction. In this project planning, analysis and designing of 2D and 3D plan on G+ 3 bungalows. Implementing the interior by the use of software’s. Scheduling of object and placing the material in the model should be operated carefully while making model. Analyzing the model means the loads acted on the structure finding how much load it can take. Dead load, live load, wind load is calculated or analyzed by the use of BIM to know how much load the structure can take. The MEP work means the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing work is designed and analyzed by BIM. Then the final stage means rendering and checking the model.
How to Easily Read and Write CityGML Data Using FME Safe Software
CityGML has the potential to broaden the amount and quality of spatial data that is available for use in 3D modelling software. Across the globe, an increasing number of cities and companies are building virtual 3D city models for use in various areas including urban planning, disaster management, navigation and environmental simulations. Learn how FME can help you easily convert, restructure, integrate and distribute this CityGML data to use and share in more than 300 different formats.
Handout from my presentation at Autodesk University 2014 discussing how to coordinate civil and building models between Civil 3D, Revit, Navisworks, and InfraWorks.
The document compares the benefits and constraints of Building Information Modeling (BIM), CAD measurement, and manual measurement across various stages of a construction project including:
1) The preparation/briefing stage where BIM allows for greater client involvement but has high costs, CAD provides accurate measurements but also has high costs, and manual measurement is cheapest.
2) The design stage where BIM improves client understanding through virtual models but requires industry buy-in, CAD speeds irregular measurements but 2D sketches still require manual work, and manual measurement has accuracy issues.
3) The pre-construction stage where BIM saves time and improves accuracy but has training/software costs, CAD ensures accuracy and data management but only
How to Create 3D Mashups by Integrating GIS, CAD, and BIMSafe Software
Find out how you can easily integrate GIS, CAD, BIM, and other spatial data to create accurate 3D representations using FME. You'll discover how to manipulate 3D data across popular formats like CityGML and SketchUp, as well as transform BIM data to load only the required information into your GIS. You'll also hear how FME enabled one customer to take vintage 2D CAD data and create informative 3D PDFs and 3D AutoCAD DWG files to help in the decommissioning of a nuclear power plant
AAM Group presentation at the Esri User Conference 2016.
The presentation discusses the convergence of GIS, CAD and BIM and how this aids in Urban Planning and Management
Revit 2018 API News from DevDays Online 2016, cf. http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2017/03/revitlookup-enhancements-future-revit-and-other-api-news.html
A- LES CONCEPTS
Comprehension du bim.
Travailler dans différentes vues.
Classement et hierarchie des éléments dans Revit.
B-L'ENVIRONNEMENT DE TRAVAIL
Page des fichiers rescents et grand R.
Le ruban.
Fenêtre des propriétés.
Explorateur du projet.
Navigation dans un modèle.(zoom, rotation et panoramique).
Selection des objets, et verouillage.
C-DEMARRAGE D'UN PROJET.
Les gabarits.
Travail collaboratif.
Configuration d'un nouveau projet.
Manipulation des niveaux.
Manipulation des files de projet.
Utilisation des cotes temporaires.
C- MODELISATION PAR OBJETS:
Ajout des murs.
Propriété et type de murs.
Utilisation des accroches.
Ajouts de poteaux et poutres.
Ajout de portes et fenêtres.
Ajout d'élements de plomberie et d'électricité.
Utilisation de la jonction entre murs.
Utilisation des contraintes.
D- LIENS, IMPORTS ET GROUPES:
Lier fichiers DWG/DXF/SKP
Création de topogrpahie d'un site à partir d'un fichier.
Création et gestion des groupes.
Création et gestion des liens Revit.
Utilisation du partage d'emplacement.
E- MODELISATION PAR ESQUISSE:
Sols., toits et plafonds.
Toit par extrusion.
Ouvertures.
F-ESCALIERS.
Edition avancée d'escalier.
Edition avancée de gardes corps.
G- EDITION AVANCEE DES MURS:
Création d'un nouveau type de murs..
Création et gestion des murs empilés.
Création et gestion des murs rideaux.
.
H- GESTION DES GRAPHISMES:
Gestion du style des objets.
Gestion du remplacement de la visibilité et du graphisme des éléments.
Création et application des gabarits de vue.
Cacher et isoler les éléments.
Cadrage de la vue.
Plage de vue et entendues.
Vue isométrique d'une selection.
Option d'affichage des graphismes.
I- PIECES:
Création et gestion des pièces.
J- NOMENCLATURE ET ETIQUETTES:
Gestion des étiquettes.
Création et gestion des nomenclatures.
Modification des nomenclatures.
Enrichissement des VCCTP par les nomenclatures.
K-ANNOTATIONS.
Textes.
Dimensions
Symboles.
Légendes.
Détails.
Définir ses annotations.
L- PARAMETRIQUE ET FAMILLES
Utilisation des paramètres en mode projet.
Concept de famille.
Création d'une famille.
Utilisation des contraintes.
Utilisation des formes solides.
M- FEUILLE, IMPRESSION, PUBLICATION:
Création d'une feuille d'impression.
Export CAO.
Publication.
Impression PDF.
N- TRUCS ET ASTUCES.
A découvrir en formation.
http://structalis.fr
The document summarizes and compares five BIM software tools: Glodon, Cost X, Vico, Costos, and BIM QS Computer Software. Glodon offers a range of products for modeling, quantity takeoff, cost estimation, and project management. It enables editing of BIM models and importing of various file formats. Cost X is renowned for BIM estimating and offers products for takeoff, costing, and viewing. It supports all major BIM file formats and design packages. The document provides brief descriptions and comparisons of key features of the different software.
Bridging Between CAD & GIS: 8 Ways to Automate Data IntegrationSafe Software
Converting between CAD and GIS is a common requirement for projects involving infrastructure, buildings, city plans, and more. Unfortunately, the workflow presents many challenges, like translating geometry, attributes, annotations, symbology, geolocation, and other elements.
So how do you allow data to flow freely between these disparate data types, without losing the precision offered by CAD and the spatial context offered by GIS?
This webinar will explore the power of automated data integration workflows for CAD and GIS.
First, we’ll discuss challenges and scenarios for CAD-to-GIS translations, and demo how to use FME to power a digital plan submission portal that validates CAD data and integrates it into the central GIS repository. Next, we’ll discuss challenges and scenarios for GIS-to-CAD conversions, and demo how to build an automated FME workflow for requesting CAD data from GIS.
At the end of the webinar, you'll know how to achieve harmony between CAD & GIS by automating its integration.
The document describes a training course for the Civil 3D software. It provides information about the trainer Edi Supriyanto and his contact details. It lists the key capabilities of Civil 3D such as importing data, generating surfaces and contours, grading, volume calculations, and hydraulic analysis. It also outlines the topics that will be covered in the training including working with points, surfaces, profiles, and cut/fill calculations. Finally, it promotes the training course through various hashtags.
This document discusses software used in civil engineering. It begins by noting how technology has improved efficiency in the field. It then outlines several categories of civil engineering software: architectural, structural, and project management. Specific software are discussed, including AutoCAD, Revit, STAAD Pro, ETABS, SAP2000, Lumion, and Primavera. The document concludes that introducing these software into education can help engineers design buildings faster and more efficiently.
The article discusses the launch of a Changing Places Ireland campaign to introduce fully accessible toilet facilities for people with severe disabilities across Ireland. It notes that standard disabled toilets do not meet the needs of people who require hoists or changing benches. The campaign aims to create a website mapping existing Changing Places facilities, which have hoists and changing tables, to allow more independent access to public spaces. The lack of such facilities can limit social participation. The group hopes to work with disability organizations and businesses to increase the number of Changing Places toilets nationwide.
This document summarizes specifications for three electric bus models from BYD:
1. The K11M is a 60-ft articulated bus with a range of 170+ miles powered by BYD's iron phosphate battery technology.
2. The K9MC is a 40-ft low floor bus with a range of 160+ miles using the same iron phosphate batteries.
3. The K9S is a 35-ft low floor bus able to achieve a 145+ mile range from its battery pack.
Presentation About of Revit Architecture Desing and History, Then Revit Architecture Course provides by Croma campus one of the best training institutes.
During our What's New in Revit 2017 we'll be diving into new features and enhancements. During this presentation we will see improvements to navigation, sheet views, revisions, as well as performance improvements. Please join Ian Donovan, Autodesk Software Account Manager, and Curt Egli, Sr. Software Application Specialist as they walk us through the 2017 changes.
This document discusses various engineering software used for modeling, drafting, design, and analysis in civil engineering. It describes software for 2D and 3D CAD like AutoCAD, SketchUp, Revit, and Maya. It also covers analysis software like SAP 2000, STAAD Pro, and ETABS for designing and analyzing structures. Additionally, it mentions software tools for specialized tasks such as GIS for maps, SW-Road for road design, MATLAB for graphs and calculations, and MS Project and Oracle for project management and cost estimation.
This presentation provides an overview of AutoCAD, BIM, Revit Architecture, and Staad Pro. It discusses the history and features of AutoCAD, how it has evolved over 33 major releases. BIM is introduced as a process for digital representation of physical structures to create a shared knowledge resource. Revit Architecture is presented as BIM software specifically designed for building information modeling in the architectural field. Finally, Staad Pro is discussed as structural analysis and design software that can be used to generate 3D models, analyze, and design structures according to various international codes.
Design and Development of BIM on GIS Interoperability Open Platformslhead1
ecently, Construction data has evolved from CAD to BIM and BIM becomes more important data used in various fields like facility management and 3D GIS construction, so there is an increasing need for developing technologies that can be effectively used in post-construction steps. There are lots of trials to model and service not only geographical terrain and outdoor but also indoor space. From this perspective, establishment of BIM and GIS interoperable method and development of service platform became the most important core technology. On this research, spatial data linkage model has been devised to smoothly implement the interoperability between two different kinds of data - BIM data and GIS data.
The platform basically displays BIM data based on 3D GIS such as WorldWind Java developed by NASA and Google Earth. It is also possible to interactively move in and out the buildings and also to see the outside of the building when a user is inside the building and inside of the building while a user is outside the building. Besides, the platform makes users look up the objects of buildings and properties of objects one by one, floor by floor, by similar properties, or all. Users can also edit the properties of objects and do spatial queries for analysis of the data.
This project is co research project of KICT(Korea Institute of Construction Technology) and Gaia3D and working closely together to develop BIM and GIS Interoperability Open-Platform for the integration of BIM and GIS data since 2012 and have developed the system for smooth operation of big size 3D BIM data and GIS data about plenty of buildings in areas or cities, not just one building. Now, core technologies to integrate BIM into GIS are successfully developed and we will keep improving the system step by step. KICT and Gaia3D together have designed and developed BIM and GIS interoperability open-platform based on the spatial data linkage model. Links between BIM data and GIS data enables efficient and seamless management of indoor and outdoor information at the same time and it also could be used for various services such as real estates and AR (Augmented Reality) services. Gaia3D develops 3D facility management system for Antarctic King Sejong science station to efficiently manage the facilities and publicly promote the station using BIM on GIS system with open source GIS software.
BIM Conversion & Analysis Workshop: Story of the I-35W Bridge CollapseSafe Software
The document discusses capabilities of the FME software for working with 3D geospatial data and CityGML models. It provides examples of workflows for converting BIM and CAD files to CityGML and analyzing 3D city models. Specifically, it describes how FME was used to convert a Revit model of the collapsed I-35W bridge in Minneapolis to a CityGML model and link bridge components to external semantic data about the bridge failure for analysis.
The document discusses how FME software can be used to extract information from BIM models and connect it with other systems like GIS. It provides examples of workflows at the University of Washington that use FME to automatically sync and update data between CAD/BIM and GIS systems. It also outlines scenarios from HOK and demonstrates how FME can be used with a Revit plugin to export BIM data to formats like PDFs and KML files.
Role of Building Information Modelling in ConstructionAbhijeet Kulkarni
This project shows that how BIM is implemented in construction. In this project planning, analysis and designing of 2D and 3D plan on G+ 3 bungalows. Implementing the interior by the use of software’s. Scheduling of object and placing the material in the model should be operated carefully while making model. Analyzing the model means the loads acted on the structure finding how much load it can take. Dead load, live load, wind load is calculated or analyzed by the use of BIM to know how much load the structure can take. The MEP work means the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing work is designed and analyzed by BIM. Then the final stage means rendering and checking the model.
How to Easily Read and Write CityGML Data Using FME Safe Software
CityGML has the potential to broaden the amount and quality of spatial data that is available for use in 3D modelling software. Across the globe, an increasing number of cities and companies are building virtual 3D city models for use in various areas including urban planning, disaster management, navigation and environmental simulations. Learn how FME can help you easily convert, restructure, integrate and distribute this CityGML data to use and share in more than 300 different formats.
Handout from my presentation at Autodesk University 2014 discussing how to coordinate civil and building models between Civil 3D, Revit, Navisworks, and InfraWorks.
The document compares the benefits and constraints of Building Information Modeling (BIM), CAD measurement, and manual measurement across various stages of a construction project including:
1) The preparation/briefing stage where BIM allows for greater client involvement but has high costs, CAD provides accurate measurements but also has high costs, and manual measurement is cheapest.
2) The design stage where BIM improves client understanding through virtual models but requires industry buy-in, CAD speeds irregular measurements but 2D sketches still require manual work, and manual measurement has accuracy issues.
3) The pre-construction stage where BIM saves time and improves accuracy but has training/software costs, CAD ensures accuracy and data management but only
How to Create 3D Mashups by Integrating GIS, CAD, and BIMSafe Software
Find out how you can easily integrate GIS, CAD, BIM, and other spatial data to create accurate 3D representations using FME. You'll discover how to manipulate 3D data across popular formats like CityGML and SketchUp, as well as transform BIM data to load only the required information into your GIS. You'll also hear how FME enabled one customer to take vintage 2D CAD data and create informative 3D PDFs and 3D AutoCAD DWG files to help in the decommissioning of a nuclear power plant
AAM Group presentation at the Esri User Conference 2016.
The presentation discusses the convergence of GIS, CAD and BIM and how this aids in Urban Planning and Management
Revit 2018 API News from DevDays Online 2016, cf. http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2017/03/revitlookup-enhancements-future-revit-and-other-api-news.html
A- LES CONCEPTS
Comprehension du bim.
Travailler dans différentes vues.
Classement et hierarchie des éléments dans Revit.
B-L'ENVIRONNEMENT DE TRAVAIL
Page des fichiers rescents et grand R.
Le ruban.
Fenêtre des propriétés.
Explorateur du projet.
Navigation dans un modèle.(zoom, rotation et panoramique).
Selection des objets, et verouillage.
C-DEMARRAGE D'UN PROJET.
Les gabarits.
Travail collaboratif.
Configuration d'un nouveau projet.
Manipulation des niveaux.
Manipulation des files de projet.
Utilisation des cotes temporaires.
C- MODELISATION PAR OBJETS:
Ajout des murs.
Propriété et type de murs.
Utilisation des accroches.
Ajouts de poteaux et poutres.
Ajout de portes et fenêtres.
Ajout d'élements de plomberie et d'électricité.
Utilisation de la jonction entre murs.
Utilisation des contraintes.
D- LIENS, IMPORTS ET GROUPES:
Lier fichiers DWG/DXF/SKP
Création de topogrpahie d'un site à partir d'un fichier.
Création et gestion des groupes.
Création et gestion des liens Revit.
Utilisation du partage d'emplacement.
E- MODELISATION PAR ESQUISSE:
Sols., toits et plafonds.
Toit par extrusion.
Ouvertures.
F-ESCALIERS.
Edition avancée d'escalier.
Edition avancée de gardes corps.
G- EDITION AVANCEE DES MURS:
Création d'un nouveau type de murs..
Création et gestion des murs empilés.
Création et gestion des murs rideaux.
.
H- GESTION DES GRAPHISMES:
Gestion du style des objets.
Gestion du remplacement de la visibilité et du graphisme des éléments.
Création et application des gabarits de vue.
Cacher et isoler les éléments.
Cadrage de la vue.
Plage de vue et entendues.
Vue isométrique d'une selection.
Option d'affichage des graphismes.
I- PIECES:
Création et gestion des pièces.
J- NOMENCLATURE ET ETIQUETTES:
Gestion des étiquettes.
Création et gestion des nomenclatures.
Modification des nomenclatures.
Enrichissement des VCCTP par les nomenclatures.
K-ANNOTATIONS.
Textes.
Dimensions
Symboles.
Légendes.
Détails.
Définir ses annotations.
L- PARAMETRIQUE ET FAMILLES
Utilisation des paramètres en mode projet.
Concept de famille.
Création d'une famille.
Utilisation des contraintes.
Utilisation des formes solides.
M- FEUILLE, IMPRESSION, PUBLICATION:
Création d'une feuille d'impression.
Export CAO.
Publication.
Impression PDF.
N- TRUCS ET ASTUCES.
A découvrir en formation.
http://structalis.fr
The document summarizes and compares five BIM software tools: Glodon, Cost X, Vico, Costos, and BIM QS Computer Software. Glodon offers a range of products for modeling, quantity takeoff, cost estimation, and project management. It enables editing of BIM models and importing of various file formats. Cost X is renowned for BIM estimating and offers products for takeoff, costing, and viewing. It supports all major BIM file formats and design packages. The document provides brief descriptions and comparisons of key features of the different software.
Bridging Between CAD & GIS: 8 Ways to Automate Data IntegrationSafe Software
Converting between CAD and GIS is a common requirement for projects involving infrastructure, buildings, city plans, and more. Unfortunately, the workflow presents many challenges, like translating geometry, attributes, annotations, symbology, geolocation, and other elements.
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Autodesk Civil 3D
Comparing Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 and Autodesk
Land Desktop 2005
Autodesk commissioned this review by Michael Carris. Carris is Business Development Manager for K-TEK
Solutions, a K-TEK certified professional, an Autodesk authorized consultant, and an Autodesk certified instructor.
He has more than 15 years’ experience in civil engineering and surveying software, engineering design, and land
surveying. Carris provides consulting, training, and technical support for Timmons Group in Richmond, Virginia,
and to many other public and private engineering and surveying firms across the country. He is known for his
expertise in design visualization, GIS, mapping, civil engineering, and land surveying software applications.
The following report has been minimally edited by Autodesk for editorial and formatting consistency.
Introduction
The last 15 years have brought many changes in the hardware and software used in the
engineering, survey, and mapping industries. These changes have led many to ask the
following questions:
• Will drafting exist as a profession in coming years?
• Is creating 3D models worthwhile when most firms produce 2D review plans?
In addition, civil engineers want to get more out of the software they already own. They
frequently ask, “Why should I upgrade when I don’t use what I already have?”
The future of drafting as a profession is beyond the scope of this paper, but readers who
have a stake in this issue may find the information presented here interesting. As for the
other two questions, I believe this paper presents compelling reasons both to upgrade your
software and to create 3D models.
I’ve spent the last two years testing and using Autodesk®
Civil 3D™ software, which has
resurrected these issues and led to new conversations about change—change not only in the
software used, but in the engineering, surveying, and mapping processes themselves. From
my exposure to Civil 3D I see this software bringing about many changes in the way the
industry currently operates.
With existing software, the smallest revision on a project, such as moving the PVI (point of
vertical intersection) of a road, currently requires hours to adjust the plan and the related
annotation. With Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 it takes only seconds to accomplish the same
change. In this paper I demonstrate the difference in Civil 3D’s process that can produce
such dramatic results and I show Civil 3D’s potential effects on the bottom line, by
comparing the differences between Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 and Autodesk®
Land Desktop
2005 in a project environment. Working with a project that is still under development using
Land Desktop, and having an understanding of the design concept for the project, I
reengineered the project and documented the significant time savings and process
differences using Autodesk Civil 3D 2005. I focus here on the advantage of using an
improved process rather than on a feature-for-feature comparison.
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The project concerns a section of land in a mountainous region of the eastern United States.
The project engineers have designed and positioned the house locations on the property to
afford desirable views of the surrounding area. Once they established the house locations,
the engineers designed the roads to provide access to the houses. They designed the roads
to have multiple horizontal curves through the property with a limited number of straight
segments. Once the engineers had established the roads, they created the lot parcels. The
design criteria for the parcels required that they hold to a minimum of 0.5 acre with a
minimum frontage of 100 feet.
The overall project consists of four main sections and a fairly significant design budget. This
comparison focuses on one section currently being designed. I have begun reengineering
the project with Autodesk Civil 3D 2005. The project to date has consumed 35-40 percent of
the design budget and has used about 3,000 work hours. Project members have spent most
of this time on design changes to the horizontal and vertical alignments, which have also
affected the lot line locations. Project records directly attribute about 2,000 hours to design
and drafting of the project using Autodesk Land Desktop 2005. A significant amount of work
remains to complete this project, which still requires grading, utility work, and significant
drafting work. To add even more time to the project, the lot lines have been changed once
again. This project is about two hundred acres with about thirty-five home lots. This is one
of seven phases and has a design budget of about $700,000.
Defining Surfaces
The project began with a concept plan, and then moved into the survey phase where
surveyors collected data and established existing property boundaries. Because of the large
size of the site, surveyors collected and mapped a combination of aerial and field-located
data. They provided this map to the project engineer, depicting the planametrics of the site
with existing ground contours. They provided a surface or digital terrain model using
LandXML.
The surface in Autodesk Land Desktop 2005 consists of a database that is stored in the Land
Desktop project. This database is accessible to any drawing in the project. Engineers can
use the database to create contour lines and 3D surface models, and they can use it during
the design process to create profiles, cross sections, grading scenarios, and volumetric
calculations. It is a static database, meaning that anytime you add or modify data, you
must rebuild the surface. In addition, if you have information that was created from the
surface, such as the contours, you must re-create this information and erase the old
contours. The displayed data is also static. For example, if the user wants to display the
contours using one-foot minor intervals and five-foot major intervals, this in itself requires a
two- to three-step process that could take anywhere from a few seconds to many minutes,
depending on the size of the surface. If the same user requires a two-foot interval with ten-
foot major contours, this also requires a multistep process as well as managing layers,
multiple drawings, or both. If the user has created profiles or ground sections using this
surface and the surface is subsequently modified, the user must then re-create the profile
and sections. All this adds more steps and time to the process, in some cases hours of
additional work.
Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 takes a different approach that results in significant time savings.
Civil 3D stores engineering information as intelligent models, and it controls how that
information is presented graphically through user-definable style settings. Furthermore, Civil
3D maintains relationships between objects so that changes to one object automatically
update other dependent objects.
In Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 you maintain the surface in the drawing, but you can share it
through Civil 3D project management tools. The most beneficial feature of Civil 3D is that
its surfaces are dynamic. When you modify the surface data, you can set it to auto-rebuild.
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This feature in itself saves a few steps, but the real advantage comes from the dynamic
relationships to other Civil 3D objects. Profiles, sections, and other objects that derive
information from the surface data also update automatically, saving significant time.
Surface styles control how the contours and other information display. Changing from a
one-foot interval to a two-foot interval is just a matter of changing the style. You make no
changes to the surface model itself, and redrawing is automatic. Additional benefits of Civil
3D include its ability to show depression contours and to add materials to the surface to
create a realistic surface rendering.
These are just a few of the differences between the surfaces in Autodesk Land Desktop
2005 and Autodesk Civil 3D 2005. They may seem minor, but at this stage of the project
they have significant effects, because engineers spend a lot of time changing the display
representation of a surface to show the client or the project manager what the existing
ground surface looks like. I was able to import the surface into Autodesk Civil 3D 2005
directly from the Autodesk Land Desktop project and display it with two-foot contours
through a surface style. This is where I began the reengineering process in Autodesk Civil
3D.
Creating Alignments
On this particular project the house
locations are based on the view of the
surrounding areas. A crew using GPS (global
positioning system) equipment went to the
site and located the best views. Engineers
then brought these points into Autodesk
Land Desktop 2005 and aligned and
positioned the blocks representing houses.
Next, the engineers designed a road
network to provide access to the homes.
This took up another large chunk of the
design budget. The intent of the road design
is to have many smooth curves. As such
engineers had to modify it many times,
which required hours of rework.
In Autodesk Land Desktop 2005, creating
the road network or horizontal alignments
begins by defining the geometry using lines
and arcs, and then turning those lines and
arcs into a database. This database also
resides outside the drawing and can be
accessed by any user in the project. To edit
the alignment the designer has to use an
editor and then view the changes
graphically (see Figure 1). If the alignment
changes, the user must edit the lines and arcs and then re-create the horizontal alignment
database. The lines and curves are simple AutoCAD®
software entities and contain no design
criteria. For example, if you modify a tangent segment, you must also modify the other
tangents or arcs adjoining the tangent in a separate operation. Land Desktop does not
maintain design criteria information, so modifications to the alignment not only consume
lots of time, but can also produce geometric errors such as nontangential curves.
Figure 1: An alignment being modified in
Autodesk Land Desktop. Notice that the curves
do not remain true reverse curves and that
labels are not automatically updated.
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In Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 you create horizontal alignments using a layout toolbar. Instead
of drawing a series of lines and arcs, you design the alignment to meet the design
requirements. The layout tools in Civil 3D create curves and tangent segments to maintain
certain design characteristics. The curve tools enable users to maintain a specific radius or a
required pass-through, both common operations in the design process. If the user modifies
the adjoining segment to the curve, the curve maintains the user-defined design criteria.
You can modify the horizontal alignment using an editor, or you can modify it graphically
using interactive grips on the alignment object. Each component of the alignment has
specially designed grips that either enable or limit the modification of the segment based on
the design criteria or the tools used to create the segment. Object styles and labels styles
also control the display properties of the alignments in Autodesk Civil 3D 2005. Station
labels automatically adjust when the alignment changes. The software thus does the
drafting automatically during the redesign, saving many hours.
The design intent of the project was to have smooth-flowing roads with many curves, which
required continuous design changes. Autodesk Land Desktop 2005 made this a time-
consuming and cumbersome process.
Designers used fillets, arcs, and circles
to lay out the geometry but found it
difficult to keep the arcs tangent and to
create true reverse curves with sufficient
separation. Designers spent many hours
modifying the geometry and features
affected by the changes in the
alignment.
In Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 I re-created
the road alignment using the alignment
layout tools (see Figure 2). After laying
out the tangents, I went back and added
the curves or additional PIs (points of
intersection) to re-create the design
intent. This took only a few minutes per
alignment, resulting in alignments that
were not only designed correctly
(tangential) but also labeled correctly.
The equivalent process in Autodesk Land
Desktop 2005 required hours instead of
minutes.
Creating Parcels
Once the engineers had laid out the alignments with Autodesk Land Desktop 2005, they
created the parcels. The only constraints on parcel design were to maintain a minimum lot
size and frontage. The engineers were laying out lots even before the roads were finalized.
As I write this, some roads are still being adjusted, so the engineers will have to spend
many more hours on lot line adjustments when they modify the road alignments.
Autodesk Land Desktop 2005 provides a parcel manager and creation tools to aid in defining
parcels. The parcel creation process starts with the storing of lines and curves using
standard AutoCAD tools. Once the parcels have been defined, they are static with respect to
Figure 2: An alignment being modified in Autodesk
Civil 3D 2005. Notice that the curves remain
tangent and true. Once the grip edit command is
completed, the labels automatically update.
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the rest of the project. If users modify the alignment or adjoining parcels, they must also
modify all the parcels affected by this change by adjusting the lines and curves that
represent the lot lines and redefining the parcel in the parcel manager. This is also a time-
consuming process; project members have been spending many hours cleaning up parcels
every time the road or lot line changes. The time spent includes recalculating the lot areas
for the parcels and then editing the labels.
In Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 parcels are also objects that you create using design layout tools.
The parcel segments react dynamically to alignment segments and other parcel segments.
Adjoining parcels share their common line as a single line. If you create a parcel line and
attach it to the alignment, the parcel line adjusts when the alignment is modified. Resizing
the parcels in Civil 3D to have a minimum size is simple using the parcel sizing tool. You can
create multiple parcels using the automatic parcel layout tool based on frontage and
minimum area. Parcels also have styles that control their display properties and the styles
of their associated labels. You can change a parcel that was once designated as single
family to a common area by changing the style applied to the parcel. When you make this
change, the line color, linetype, and fill characteristics update automatically based on the
style. When you define a closed parcel, Civil 3D automatically calculates the area. You can
use this area to label the parcel or to create an area table that automatically adjusts when
the parcel is modified.
After I spent a few hours laying out the horizontal alignments, I spent some time on the
parcels. The parcel lines on this project derive from the centerline, not from the right-of-
way. This enables the parcels to react to any changes in the road alignments. If you modify
any of the road alignments, the parcels adjust accordingly. In this process, you create the
right-of-way parcel later once you have finalized the alignments. As you modify the parcels,
the software automatically creates and adjusts the parcel labels, saving many hours of
drafting time. Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 also sets the labels to maintain their view orientation,
so you need not worry about the view orientation or scale.
A current solution to different drawing scales and view orientations is to create duplicate
labels and control their display using layers. If the parcel changes, the designer or drafter
must make the required changes to multiple labels. As I write this, the drafters are
spending time rotating the parcel labels in Autodesk Land Desktop 2005 to the orientation
of the viewport, so that when they create the construction documents, the labels do not
appear upside down or sideways. The problem is that engineers are still making
adjustments to the alignments and parcels. I do not need to worry about this in Autodesk
Civil 3D 2005, since the software automatically adjusts the labels when the parcels or
alignments change. Autodesk Civil 3D also automatically sets the scale and view orientation
based on the viewport of the Layout tab, which saves hours of drafting time.
Road Corridor Design
Since the road design in Autodesk Land Desktop 2005 and Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 both
required vertical alignments (profiles), sections, and design templates, I cover them
together in this section. Vertical alignments are another component of this project that
affected the design or placement of the roads. Because of the location of this project, the
design intent calls to minimize the amount of cut and fill.
In Autodesk Land Desktop 2005 you start the road design process by defining the horizontal
alignment. You then use this alignment with the existing ground surface to create a profile.
You create the vertical alignment using this profile. You lay out tangents and vertical curves
similarly to the way you created the horizontal alignment.
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The next step is to define the vertical alignment and add it to the database. You then
sample cross sections at specific intervals. You create a cross section template to represent
the finished ground road. You create this template from geometry elements, and then
define it as a template similar to the horizontal and vertical alignments. Creating the cross
section template is a time-consuming task that can take a few minutes for a simple section,
but many hours for a more complex one. Once you have created the geometry you must
define the template. You define the transitions, super elevations, and the template surfaces
after the cross section is built. If you change the section you also must redefine the
surfaces, transitions, and other properties. Once you have defined the horizontal and
vertical alignments and the cross section templates, you bring them together using the
design control parameters. A complete road design requires a combination of design control
parameters and possibly many different cross section templates.
Creating contours or designing the utilities involves an additional process that requires
taking the data for the road and building a surface. Depending on the size of the road,
building this surface could take an hour or more. If you change any one of the design,
horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, existing ground surface, or cross section template
components, you must also rebuild the other components. What may seem like a simple
adjustment to the radius of the horizontal curve results in many hours of work, not only for
the road design but also for the parcels and any labels or other objects that are affected.
In Autodesk Civil 3D 2005, the road design—known as
corridor design—also starts with the horizontal
alignment and contains a profile, an existing ground, a
vertical alignment, and an assembly (which takes the
place of the cross section template). You create the
ground profile using the horizontal alignment and
existing surface. With the dynamic objects in Civil 3D,
the vertical profile automatically updates when you
modify the horizontal alignment. You create the
vertical alignment similarly to the way you create the
horizontal alignment by using a layout toolbar.
You can sample sections at any location or range of
stations, and these sections can even include
nonperpendicular sections. You create the cross
section template—known as an assembly—from a
catalog of subassemblies (see Figure 3). You can drag
these subassemblies to create an assembly in about
five minutes, which is much quicker than in Autodesk
Land Desktop 2005. The subassemblies contain design
characteristics for transitions and surfaces, which you
can size and change at any time during the design
process. You bring all the horizontal and vertical
alignments and assemblies together using the Create
Simple Corridor command.
Once you have defined a corridor object, you can create a surface and display its contours.
This surface is a component of the corridor. Creating the corridor and the surface takes only
a few minutes. If any part of the design changes, such as the horizontal alignment, vertical
alignment, or the assembly, Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 can rebuild the entire corridor,
including the surface. You create regions along the road corridor to handle different
assemblies. This feature of Autodesk Civil 3D is one of the big time savers in the design
process. If this project had been started in Autodesk Civil 3D 2005, engineers would have
designed the road corridors in the early stages of the project instead of waiting for the
Figure 3: Tool palettes are used
to drag subassembly
components to build a complete
assembly. Each subassembly
has design characteristics that
are modified through the Object
Property Manager.
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horizontal alignments to be finalized. This would have enabled the engineers to determine
the correct design early on and reduce the amount of work by weeks.
On this particular project, engineers are still adjusting the roads; this is where I’ve been
able to catch up to the design of the project and move forward with it. By creating the road
corridors I can now move onto another section of the design. From simple edits to major
modifications, Autodesk Civil 3D 2005 takes only a few minutes compared to the many
hours to make the same changes in Autodesk Land Desktop 2005.
Conversion Workflow
The following workflow diagrams show a typical process workflow for a subdivision project
and for a highway design project. They show how you can take existing data in Land
Desktop and complete a design using Civil 3D and get data back into Land Desktop for
additional design. Every project has its own characteristics and certain disciplines will utilize
the software in many different ways. The key to making Autodesk Civil 3D work is to
identify the proper tool and work it into your design process even if that means changing
your current process.
Subdivision/Site Design
This workflow identifies a typical
process for a subdivision or site
plan that may have a simple
access road.
The process will also depend on
what your construction document
requirements are. If you are
required to create cross section
sheets or you have a lot of
corridor designs that span many
sheets it would be beneficial to
utilize the Civil Design Sheet
Manager tools. (See the Corridor
Design diagram)
Gravity Pipe Design will require
utilizing Autodesk Civil Design for
sizing and automated drafting.
However Autodesk Civil 3D can
be used to create the
construction documents by
coordinating the drawings via
xrefs. This will depend on the
project size.
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Conclusion
In about 40 hours I was able to reengineer this project and have construction documents
ready to be published. If I compare this time to the 2,000 or more hours that have already
been spent designing and drafting the project, it represents about a 98 percent time
Corridor Design
This workflow identifies a typical
process for a corridor design
(road, rail, channel…) that will
require more extensive design
with regards to superelevations,
and use of generating multiple
plan, profile and cross sections
construction documents.
When designing a roadway
making use of the dynamic
relationships of objects in
Autodesk Civil 3D to determine
the best design alternatives will
save many hours of time on a
project. Once a design alternative
has been determined it would be
best to bring the horizontal and
vertical alignments into Autodesk
Land Desktop to fine tune the
design.
Civil 3D’s parcel object
capabilities also save hours of
time when creating right of way
acquisition and easement maps.
And using LandXML to create the
Legal Descriptions will make a
tedious task simple.