Saturday, 26 June 2010

Book Review: Google SketchUp for Site Design







ArchiCAD 14



Wednesday, 9 June 2010

RhinoBIM Structure Available

RhinoBIM is a suite of a number of planned plug-ins to enhance Rhino 5.0 for the Architectural, Engineering and Construction Industries. Developed by Virtual Build Technologies LLC, the first module now available is called RhinoBIM Structure, for 3D structure modeling, Clash & Clear analysis and structural analysis.

Using Rhino 5.0’s new light extrusion technology, RhinoBIM Structure builds 3D structural design elements that are much lighter in data weight significantly decreasing model size.

With the light database the Clash & Clear analysis finds errors within seconds and there is no need to export the model to another program to perform the analysis.

This work-in-progress version is nearly feature complete and the final version is expected to be released later this year.

RhinoBIM Structure Features:

  • Robust tools for adding and editing structural steel beams
  • Extensive library of steel shapes, including international standards
  • User definable steel shapes
  • Assign materials, attributes, and process treatments to each element
  • Extract data for downstream application, including structural analysis, detailing, cost estimating, scheduling, staging, and fabrication
  • Very fast Clash & Clear analysis
  • Very large model support using new Rhino 5.0 technology
Read More at blgsim

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Friday, 4 June 2010

Plugin: Model Function

A fairly new SketchUp plug-in has become available named the ModelFunction Plugin for SketchUp.

Model Function looks to be a set of parametric tools for defining and editing paths. From the video, it appears you can define paths, and then apply constraints to the path. Then you can associate Components to the nodes on the path.




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