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Proven, open, and versatile architectural application
- A single application for MicroStation, AutoCAD, and as stand-alone version
- Powerful tools for building design and "as built" documentation
- Suitable for projects of all sizes and complexities (residential, office, airport, railway stations, industrial plants, and so on)
- Applicable in many industry segments (architecture; interior design; pre-fab housing; automotive, pharmaceutical, chemical
industry and more)
- Able to support for several European standards (see "Support of industry standards")
- Customizable to company requirements and workflows
- Support for architectural stages 1 to 6 and 9
- Recommended by German car manufacturers as design solution for industrial plants and the "digital factory" (for example: DaimlerChrysler and BMW)
Building Information Modeling
- Creation of central virtual 3D building model
- Comprehensive tools for placement and modification of all building elements (single and multi-leaf (cavity) walls, columns, beams, slabs, roofs, floors, stairs, windows, doors, gates, furniture, façade elements, ladders, ramps, and more)
- Building elements and spaces with attributes, properties, and rules
- Associativity between building elements
- Unrestricted elements forms (round, sloping, offset, non-uniform cross-sections, and more)
- Combination of steel and concrete construction in one system
- Macro language for creation of individual building elements and analysis
- Referencing of other drawings and models
- Import of coordinates from other sources
- Comprehensive 2D drafting tools
Drawings and reports
- View filter-based generation of drawings from central building model (floor plans, sections, elevation, details and so on)
- Priority system for correct calculation and display of wall intersections/junctions in 2D and 3D
- Batch option to update or generate multiple and large drawings overnight
- Rule-based generation of alpha-numeric output from central building model (quantities, reports, schedules, room areas and volumes, room books, verifiable area calculation and so on)
- Area and volume calculations according to DIN 277
- Automatic update of drawings and numeric output
 View filter technology
- Drawing generation and model representation at different scales and depth of detail - at the touch of a button (site plans, working drawings, presentation drawings,
egress plans, and more)
- WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) display and plotting
- Display according to DIN 1356
Design visualization
- Integrated high-end rendering and animation tools, including radiosity and particle tracing (photo-realistic images, animated walk-throughs, solar studies, interactive interior/exterior
panoramas and more)
[in MicroStation version only]
Ease of Use
- Option to work in traditional 2D floor plan or in 3D model
- Input/change done in one place only; drawings and 3D model automatically kept in synch
- Simple, yet powerful modifications through associativity between building elements (move wall modifies adjacent building elements, area calculation, labels, dimensioning)
- Comprehensive, yet extendable libraries of building components (furniture, fixture, equipment, components, section tables, pre-fab parts, and more)
- Automatic import of paper documents via ScanSnap scanner
- Online help
Project management and cross-discipline coordination
- Intuitive and powerful project management functions (archiving of project stages with all relevant files and links)
- User management tools to organized project teams
- Seamless integration with other disciplines (building services, steel detailing, Intergraph PDS (Plant Design System), tender documentation)
- Coordination with numerous MicroStation and AutoCAD applications
Support of industry and company standards
- Import/export of industry-standard file formats (DGN, DWG, DXF, COM, ENVELOPE, GAEB, STEP, HLI bidirectional, IGES 2D/3D, MBA-Export,
ArCon-Import (2D/3D), ARRIBA CA3D-Import (2D/3D), DRV, PDF, HPGL, TIF, JPG, BMP, WMF, GIF, TXT, Postscript, ORJ, and others)
- Export to Internet file formats (3D Adobe PDF, VRML, O2C, ORJ and others)
- Integrated German DIN standard; able to support several other European building industry standards
- Material names of construction and finishes according to DIN
- Support for numerous international steel section tables
- Definition, management, and enforcement of company-specific project standards
- Export to other discipline-specific applications:
- tender documention: ARRIBA planen, AVAplus, CPLAN (COSOBA)
- facilities management: speedikon FM
- building services: TRICAD, heatloss calculation, openings
- steel construction: Bocad, ProSteel, SDNF, Sucad
- Intergraph PDS: FrameWorks
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