AGACAD will introduce its new-generation building information management platform during Autodesk University in Las Vegas. The beta launch of the BIMAXON platform, “a brain for a building”, will be a major highlight of our participation in AU from November 14 to 16, 2017.

"The theme for this AU is ‘The Future of Making Things’, and BIMAXON is pioneering technology for the AEC future everyone’s dreaming about,” says Donatas Aksomitas, AGACAD’s CEO.

“It’s the kind of advanced information management and exchange that’s needed for a world of VR/AR and IoT, for buildings with Artificial Intelligence. Imagine data from all sources in one place with real-time access and BIM with infinite dimensions. We’ll have a HoloLens to show it off with mixed reality,” he said.

Question: “Do you have something similar to Autodesk’s Roombook tool that can find all Revit categories?”

Answer: Yes. BIM Navigator lets you do everything Roombook does and more.

Although Roombook is a really nice tool, from my point of view it’s not finished yet. For example, it’s strange that you can’t select all Revit categories that are in your Revit model.

Take a look at the categories Roombook allows you to schedule:

There are many more Revit categories that ought to be included in a Roombook table like the one above. This is where BIM Navigator comes in handy.

In his latest post over at the BIMAXON blog, AGACAD CEO Donatas Aksomitas gets into more specifics about standardizing BIM object properties. He sees a lot to be gained from standardizing. Check out the post: The ‘Identification’ class of BIM object properties

For more background, see his post from earlier this year: It’s time to standardize BIM object properties!

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BIMAXON will be beta-launched next week at Autodesk University! If you'll be there, look us up at booth A324! We'll be in the Building Design & Fabrication sector (next to food court #4).

AGACAD has a nifty free add-on for Revit® called Smart Select. We invite all Revit users to download this free tool and see how it speeds up your tasks! It’s basically a multi-element, auto-selection tool that lets you quickly select elements in a room or space by category, family, or type. This is invaluable in cases when you need to, for instance, write room data to a certain type of element in a room because it eliminates repetitive and inaccurate manual selection.

With Smart Select, you can filter elements by room name or number and add needed parameters to all elements that belong to that room. The workflow looks like this:

1. Download Smart Select
2. Install Smart Select
3. Filter Elements by Room Name or Number:

On his BIMAXON blog, AGACAD CEO Donatas Aksomitas has been developing his thoughts on a more effective way of presenting the right amount of information to BIM actors at the right time throughout a building’s lifecycle. A big part of that is transitioning from LOD to what he calls graphical representation (GR) categories. GR avoids the pitfalls of LOD: model overload and lack of accuracy. Check out his post!

Speaking of BIMAXON, it's beta launch will be next week at Autodesk University! If you'll be there, swing by booth # A324 to say hi! We'll be in the Building Design & Fabrication sector, right next to food area 4.

Once again, AGACAD has made some great changes to both its timber and metal framing software. So many in fact, it’s hard to know where to start! One thing’s for sure: they bring flexibility that’s geared toward making your work in Revit even smoother.

Here are the headlines:

• Load custom family catalog automatically
• Use your custom headers for sloped openings
• Modify joined openings
• Split studs and joists
• Calculate overall assembly dimensions
• Control how ridge studs are added
• Add filters to your configurations

For more on each of these features, read on!

Load your company's family catalog automatically

From now on, you’ll be able to select your company’s family catalog to automatically load families into a project by simply adding the folder’s location after selecting “Load Families and Schedules”:

Many thanks to all who participated in last week’s webinar about cutting structural openings in Revit®. Our MEP engineer Jokubas showed how our Cut Opening BIM Solution has been enhanced through our collaboration with Scandinavian companies like COWI, Ramboll, and MOE.

The webinar was recorded, so if you didn’t get to attend or would just like to watch it again, simply let us know at events@aga-cad.com and we’ll send that to you ASAP!

In the meantime, here’s a short preview of what the webinar covered:

We kindly invite you to attend our webinar this Thursday about Cut Opening. Our MEP engineer Jokubas is going to keep this one short and sweet! In only 15 minutes, he’s going to show three improvements that resulted from our collaboration with leading Scandinavian companies, like MOE, Ramboll, and COWI.

During the past few months, we’ve been working closely with Scandinavian structural engineers who deal with structural and architectural walls in Revit®. This collaboration has resulted in significant updates to Cut Opening in its latest release.

Companies like MOE, Ramboll, and COWI have already been using Cut Opening for a while to automate the process of inserting openings for doors and windows in structural models to exactly match those elements in the linked architectural model.

Please join our webinar on Thursday, October 26th to learn more about these NEW FEATURES!

Thanks to all who participated in our webinar last week focusing on framing metal (light-gauge steel) walls in Revit®. Our structural engineer Valensas showed the capabilities of the Metal Framing Walls BIM Solution, including some new features for doing bracing and using headers with diagonal members.

The webinar was recorded, so if you didn’t get to attend or would just like to watch it again, simply let us know at events@aga-cad.com and we’ll send that to you ASAP!

In the meantime, here’s a short preview of what the webinar covered: