It’s time to demonstrate the new workflow and technology created especially for cross-laminated timber (CLT). In this webinar about CLT, you’ll see how to create CLT panels for walls, floors, and roofs by using AGACAD’s Wood Framing software and sample families, distribute details, and even design ventilated facades!

In June we hosted a webinar on generating shop drawings and inserting connection details for precast projects in Revit. Here's a quick look at what our engineer showed. Don't forget that recordings of all our webinars are posted on our YouTube channel.

Reacting to our clients’ recent request on our BIM solution for Revit, Precast Concrete was updated with many useful features, delivering even more automation, flexibility and efficiency to the workflow of structural precast modelling.

Smart Details - tool to create connections and Smart Assemblies – tool for shop drawings were updated.

Here is a short overview of these new updates.

What's the latest building style you can frame with AGACAD‘s Framing software for Autodesk® Revit®? Heavy Timber and Post-&-Beam structures! The new BIM software Wood Framing Oak is powerful and flexible in automating the design process for even the most complex and unique structures – it’s just a matter of figuring out a workflow and setting up required families.

We've already covered multi-layered timber frames and frames with SIP panels for walls, floors and roofs, high-quality ventilated facades, and architectural curtain walls with highly detailed elements. So, now it's time to move on to framing with massive timbers.

Using Wood Framing OAK and sample families, you can create heavy-timber-framed walls, floors and roofs. Also, distribute and manage details used in connections with cuts common for oak frames by using our BIM solution Smart Details and, finally, prepare shop drawings, cut lists, and even export wood elements and details to any CNC machine and CAD/CAM production line, including Hundegger and Weinmann.

Framing the supporting structure and creating connections with cuts common for OAK Frames

Once Walls, Floors and Roofs have been modeled in Revit, it’s time to frame them. Wall+, Floor+ and Roof+ modules (they are included in BIM solution Wood Framing OAK) have all the features that are required to predefine your own configurations for framing. Standardization and automation of the wall, floor and roof framing process and shop drawing generation allows you to skip major hurdles in building design. These are the prominent time-saving Wall+, Floor+ and Roof+ functions.

We’re pleased to announce the release of a new app we’ve been developing that's especially useful for Revit® users who work with large projects. Whether you're an architect, engineer, or project manager, BIM Navigator helps you quickly find and mark the desired elements in your Revit model using a unique parameter filter. Then, you can conveniently view and correct the settings of the filtered items in the handy Parameter Table. Best of all, it’s completely free!

Features of BIM Navigator:

• Quick search. No lag, no waiting – even with 50,000 elements in your project.
• Wide choice of parameters (Instance, Type, Shared, Host, HostType & Calculated).
• View shared settings.
• Edit Instance and Type parameters directly from the Parameter Table.
• See the element counts on each filter in the Navigation Tree.
• Find elements by matching parameter text.
• Export Parameter Table to CSV file & Open in MS Excel.

Compatible with Autodesk® Revit® 2018 and 2019.

This September we’ll be exhibiting with our Sweden-based partner AEC at Forum Wood Framing Nordic. Hosted by Linnaeus University, the conference will take place in Växjö, Sweden on September 26–27. The line-up of exhibitors in recent years has propelled this forum to a prominent position as a must-attend-conference for wood construction academics and practitioners in the Nordics. We’re proud to be a part of it this year with AEC. If you’ll be there, come visit us at Booth 28!

The U-value and other analytical properties for windows and doors in Revit are set by default and come from the ASHRAE standard. Sometimes, though, you need different U-values for heating load calculations. So, how do you change these hardcoded values?

You can find these constructions on your computer: C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Revit 2018\en-US\Constructions.xml

Be aware that the “Construction.xml” file is different for different Revit Language Packages. So just make sure you modify the right one.

This week Precast Concrete, Wood Framing Floor & Metal Framing Floor were added to the Autodesk App Store.

The tools above can be downloaded either via the App Store or via our TOOLS4BIM Dock (download here on our website).

The free tools (e.g. Smart Browser Free and Smart Select) have no limitations. Trial versions of other tools have no limitations for two weeks and include support during the trial period. Have a go, and may your Revit tasks be simple and lightning quick!

Thanks to all who attended our webinar on framing heavy timber and post-n-beam structures in Revit. For those who missed out – or who liked the live webinar so much that they want to see it again! – head on over to our AGACAD webinar playlist on YouTube. While there, please subscribe to our channel.

What did this webinar cover?

• Setting up configurations and standards for creating wall, floor, and roof frames using heavy timbers.
• Auto-generating truss framing and defining detailed, multi-layer rafters in a snap using fully customizable rules and templates.
• Distributing & managing details for creating connections with cuts common for oak frames using Smart Details.
• Preparing shop drawings and cut lists with all required views and where elements are dimensioned, sorted, tagged, scheduled, and mass is calculated.
• Exporting elements and details to a CNC machine or CAD/CAM production line.

A BIM modelling and consulting firm in the Netherlands has found big added value in the unique features of AGACAD’s suite of tools for precast concrete work in Revit as well as in the company’s ongoing expert support.

Client Profile	BIM4ALL B.V. is an innovative BIM services and consulting firm based in Rijssen, the Netherlands, a home to prominent construction companies. It works on a wide range of projects for buildings, utilities and infrastructure.