All-Plan BIM
• Nemetschek AG is a company which produces CAD/CEIE Softwares featuring Allplan, Vectorwork, Archicad, and Scia engineering, Nemetschek also purchased Maxon, the producer of Cinema 4D, and Grapisoft, the producer for Archi-Cad • Founded in 1963 by Prof. Georg Nemetschek with headquarter in Munich, Germany • Allplan, has several modules including basic, drafting module, an architectural module, module for city planning, siteplanning, digital terrain modeling, and module for building information and cost management
• All-Plan BIM, starting in 2008 • BIM unknown in US but very popular in Europe • The company portfolio’s includes solution for the complete life cycle of buildings on real estate from building design through facility management • All-Plan, includes - Allplan Architecture - Allplan Engineering - Allplan Building services - Allplan BCM (buiding cost management) - Allplan IBD ( intelegent building data) - Including Cinema 4D
- Docuware, integrated document management for construction - Rivera, project information and communication - BAU financial, building finance and technical task - iPunkt, for managing information related to marketing and sales On site solution, - On site photo - On site survey - On site inspector - On site progress manager -Real estate and Facilty management ( in german only)
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Extensive and powerful building modeling tools Full capabilities for solid and surface modeling Can be integrated with design 2 cost application Multi disciplinary capability within the same application Easy collaboration, strong support for PDF and IFC formats
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Project set up with new building structure is complicated and not intuitive Requiring user to keep switching drawing files to model different levels and generate elevations, sections, and schedules Poor quality of documentation making it difficult to pick up he basic concepts of application without a lot of effort.
Overview of Allplan BIM Architecture The core functionality of Allplan BIM Architecture is similar to other BIM applications for architecture design, create a building model using intelligent parametric components and then we can generate all other deliverables from it, drawings, rendering, animations, schedule and so on
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The range of tools for creating different level of building components is extensive
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The faรงade modeler interface, showing the parameters that were set for the faรงade design
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Area schedule and space planning generated from the model
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Free shape form model that the standard IBM can’t create, able to generate in allplan Site plan design, terrain modeling, landscaping with ability for slope calculation
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Nemetschek is also a strong advocate of the IAI’s IFC open standard format with can allow different discipline articles.
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Need to be understood before be able to work with it, how the data is structured A folder containing a large number of sub-folder and files rather than a single file Project could only grouped together into a organizational unit called “ file set”, a file set could have up to 128 drawings Modeling is done storey by storey plan manager Each level in building structure can have multiple drawings files associated with it
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The BIM capabilities is nicely organized in tool palettes categorized by function model Allow accurate determination of building quantities and cost without the need to re-create the model for construction in another application Multi disciplinary capability within the same application
Lack of associatively, managing all the diverse files containing different parts of the model