We had a very productive week this week. We announced the merger of our drafting and takeoff teams. This will allow us to have all engineering under one roof. I think this will really help us in our implementation of V6. Since the process of shop drawings, material takeoffs and fabrication tickets will soon emanate from one central software, it makes sense to keep all those activities in the same team.We also finished our proof of concept on using V6 for shop drawings. The outputs from V6 are less than stellar. SoftTech has been working on this for some time and they are anticipating that in version 3.5 it will be greatly enhanced. In the mean time, we began exploring using the V6 output along with some custom clean-up routines and the Sheet Set functionality in Autocad to create our shop drawings. This seems to be working very well. It will still require a bit of manual clean-up but should reduce the time required to produce the elevations and details as well as ensure the shop drawings are in sync with the data.
Archives for January 2010
January 30, 2010
January 9, 2010
IFC and VRML
V6 can create excellent VRML models of your windows or curtainwalls. These can then be imported into Navisworks to create a seamless BIM integration for your projects. We are starting to look at creating an VRML to IFC converter. It would be great to convert the VRML files to IFC files so you could import them into Revit or Tekla. Our precast division is using Tekla right now and they would like to import our V6 data and be able to cut a section and get their details. Anyone ever tried this before?
