How can I automate the collecting/managing of a design project’s conceptual/programming data while connecting it with my Revit project?

Which is easier and less costly to obtain?

  • Asking a client to “sign off” on a design that’s been “lightly modeled” according to their design scope or waiting until its been fully modeled in Revit?

Trelligence President, Larry Ciscon PhD, demonstrated Trelligence’s value for capturing, visualizing, analyzing and bi-directionally syncing a design project’s programming data (scope) with Revit models.

Business value points from my Madison Revit User Group notes:

  • Trelligence is designed to “inform the designer, without forcing the design programming onto the designer”.
  • Start your project in Trelligence Affinity or in Revit – Changes syncs using Revit’s API
  • Import spreadsheet data sources & connect/sync to Revit project properties
  • Template driven for specific project-type & prototype programming; schools, hospital, medical clinics, restaurants, etc.
  • Templates store your standard client questionnaires, pre-defined room layouts, space types, equipment requirements, room areas & volumes
  • Provides visual color coding (text, 2D or 3D) to compare programming to design: spreadsheet views, bubble diagrams, graphing, mass modeling, single-line or color filled walls between spaces
    Quantifies spaces-volumes between multiple buildings, floors, wings, departments, alternates, design options and phases
  • Sets relationships, dependencies & priorities between spaces-rooms | informs designer when these conflict with original programming.
  • Revit-BIM Interoperability: Importing, connecting & syncing 2D/3D plans between Revit & Trelligence
  • Export to IFC and gbXML formats

Trelligence has been available for Revit 2008, 2009 and now 2010.

Trelligence Affinity provides significant value for the best phase of a Revit project; before its fully modeled.

Additional Revit Conceptual / Pre-Design Phase Tools

Original article from the Revit-BIM Playbook