Posts tagged BIM
New in Revit Architecture 2011
Jun 15th
The following features are new or enhanced for Revit Architecture.
For additional detail and a more interactive listing of New Features for Revit Architecture, go to the following: http://www.autodesk.com/revitarchitecture-features.
- Modeless Properties Palette
- Repeat last command / Repeat Commands recently used
- Quick Access Toolbar (QAT):
- Single QAT per application
- Increased number of default commands in the QAT
- Customization options via dialog box: move command up/down, add separator, remove command
- Improved access to Worksets and Design Options on status bar
- Ribbon Enhancements:
- Redesigned Modify tab:
- Consistent modify tools – panels and buttons are always in the same order on the left side of the Modify tab. Buttons enable/ disable as necessary.
- Modify tab name updates to reflect the active contextual tab appended.
- Contextual tab content is appended to the right side of the Modify tab when active.
- Modify and contextual contents are separated by a gray visual bar.
- Persistent access to core modify tools (Object-Action commands):
- Move
- Copy
- Rotate
- Mirror – Pick Axis
- Mirror – Draw Axis
- Delete
- Type Selector EnhancementsType Selector is combined with the Properties Palette. Open at all times; can be opened/closed using the Properties Palette button available in the Properties ribbon panel.
- Group Edit Mode accessPanel is removed from the ribbon and will float in drawing area when invoked. Default is upper left corner of drawing area and can be moved.
- Model In-PlaceProject ribbon replaced with the family ribbon when an in-place model is started or edited. When you finish editing in-place, the ribbon will revert to the project ribbon.
- Redesigned Modify tab:
- Improved icons based on user feedback
Large Team Workflow: Linked Models- Enhancements to the Visibility Control of Worksets in workshared files:
- Visibility by Default for Worksets
- Ability to open/close Worksets for linked models
- Ability to control visibility of linked models according to host model
- Ability to apply View Filters to linked models from host model
- Ability to tag elements in linked files, with the exception of rooms, spaces, and areas
- Ability to automatically generate a ceiling grid from walls in a linked model
- Ability to apply View Filters to linked files
Graphics- Realistic materials available in editable views
- Hardware acceleration (DX9) on by default
- Levels of Details (adaptive to zoom)
- Ambient occlusion
- Display performance improvements (over 30%)
- Significant performance improvement in display of mechanical and electrical drawings (up to 200%)
Materials- Protein 2.0 appearances, in single project library
- Increased interoperability with 3ds Max through:
- Export of FBX files to Max with Protein 2 appearances
- Import of DWG files and ADSK files with Protein 2 appearances
Note3ds Max/Design 2011 is required for materials to transfer.
Inventor Interoperability- Support for oval duct, cable tray, and conduit connectors
- Support of new electrical properties (such as Motor)
- Improved performance when importing ADSK files
- Improved AEC Exchange functionality
- Support of Protein materials
Performance Improvements- Graphics
- MultiCore Operations
- Sync with Central
- Model Open
- User interface reaction time
- Linked Models
DWG Export- Increased visual fidelity when exporting Revit files to DWG
- Export option for True Color
- Export option for Text treatment
Family Editor Enhancements- Interactive exploration of parameter values in Revit families
- Ability to lock labeled dimensions
- Reporting Parameters
Parameter Enhancements- Default parameter type (length vs. text)
- Parameters groups automatically set
Temporary Dimension Enhancements- Remembering witness lines
- Family Editor: right-click permanent dimensions to select labels
- Ability to control temporary dimension font size and background (transparent or opaque)
3D Alignment Enhancements- Align tool now works on an element’s node, vertex, edge, surface, form, or level
Expanded Region of High Geometric Accuracy- Previous versions of Revit were unable to maintain the expected level of geometric accuracy at locations farther than 1 mile from the project origin. Revit will now maintain a high level of geometric accuracy for elements placed within 20 miles of the project origin.
Selection Enhancements- Select All Instances in the current view or in the entire project
Text Notes Enhancements- Additional leader attachment points: Top Left (TL), Middle Left (ML), Bottom Left (BL), Top Right (TR), Middle Right (MR), and Bottom Right (BR).
- Ability to adjust leader end distance
- Ability to show box around text
- Ability to create bullets and numbering
Sheet Enhancements- Create new sheet list rows to create placeholder sheets
- Convert placeholder sheets to project sheets
- Grid guide for sheets, enabling consistent sheet creation
Floor Enhancements- Ability to set span direction for metal deck floors
Analysis- Sun PathInteractive tool for visualizing the impact of natural light and shadows on buildings and sites
Conceptual Design Environment (CDE) / Conceptual Form Making and Editing Tool Enhancements- Solid-Solid Cut: Ability to cut one solid from another solid
- Dissolving Forms: Ability to dissolve a form back to the curves from which it was created.
- Generic mass template
- Flexible component mass
- Sketch Edit mode for Form Profiles
Surface Rationalization Enhancements- Dividing Surfaces with Intersects by:
- Intersecting levels, reference planes, and lines on reference planes
- Combination of U or V grids and intersects
Subscription Advantage Pack- Conditional Formatting in Schedule
- Element Section Area and Linear Weight in Schedules
- Span Direction Tool
- DWG Export enhancements (Index color and True Color support)
- Beam Coping for steel beams framed into joined beams and columns
- Text Formatting Shortcuts (Ctrl+B, Ctrl+I, and Ctrl+U)
- Beam System Tags
- Split Walls with Gap
- Keyboard Shortcut UI
- Find and Replace Text in Notes
- Convert between Line Types: Model, Detail, Symbolic
- Export to DWG with correct RGB colors
- Linked File Performance Enhancements
- New API for slope angle and elevation for x,y location in given slab with choice of top and bottom
- Structural Components and Modeling:
- Slanted Columns
- Beam Placement using 3D CAD Geometry
- Curved Beams
- Structural Trusses
- Metal and Structural Deck Assembly
- Control beam length tolerance
- Beam Coping Tool
Revit Extensions- Shared Parameters Converter
- Model Review
- Autodesk Revit DB Link
- Road and Terrain modules
- Wall framing enhancements:
- New method to choose the location of the studs (wall layers are exposed)
- Multi-selection of walls and openings
User Assistance (Documentation)- Transition to Web Help, which includes improved search capabilities
- Streamlined Help reference content
- Short Tutorials in video format
- Additional Enhanced Tooltips
- New animated ToolClips
- Improved First Experience
Other Enhancements- Custom elevation tag
- List sheets not in a project on drawing list
- Background images in renderings
- Repeat last command
- Sheet layout grid
- Removal of 4 core rendering limit
- Google Maps™ mapping service interface (Location dialog) lets you visualize project locations
Lake Cabin Illustration
Jun 3rd
Here is a lake cabin illustration that I just completed. The model was created in 3DS MAX Design 2011 and rendered using the V-Ray render engine. If you have any technical question feel free to post them here.
Composition is one of the most misunderstood concepts in any form of artwork. It has been said that you can be the greatest painter in the world, but if you don’t know how to compose properly, your painting will fall apart and the same goes for digital art/illustrations/renders.
Like all illustrations of mine, this one started off in my head. First I decide what would make this image special and I decide on a focal point. These cabins are on a lake, very close to the water, and have windows and a deck facing the South. I like to play with contrast so I typically place my camera about 45 degrees from my light source (in plan), with the focal point being in the light. Since the cabins are on the lake facing South I know that you would see the sunrise so I took advantage of the glass on the sliding windows. I chose the sunrise in the reflection as my focal point.
To bring the viewers eye to my focal point (composition is really about moving the viewer’s eye) I placed the boat in the foreground, pointing towards my focal point. The boat was tipped slightly away from the camera so it wouldn’t bring so much attention to itself. I used yellow on the boat to help the viewer up into the image knowing the eye associates colors and the sunrise in the reflection is yellow too. The focal point is also 1/3 to the left of center and about 1/3 below center, which is were the eye is naturally drawn to in an image. I usually have my horizon lower, but I wanted at least as much blue water as blue sky (the water and sky are blue, which are complementary colors to my focal so it brings the illustration into balance).
Below are some screen grabs of my V-Ray settings:
VFB Frame Buffer
Global Switches
Antialising
Image Sampler
Environment
Color Mapping
Camera Type
GI
Brute Force
Light Cache
Caustics
DMC
Displacement
Systems
Elements
V-Ray Camera
HDRI
Gamma
I can comfortably say that I have never used the same settings for any 2 scenes so these settings might not work for you, but it might be a good starting point. I am running a render farm with 90Gb of RAM and 24 processors so unless you have an equivalent farm these settings might be to high for you.
Below find some Photoshop CS5 post screen grabs:
(coming soon…)
IES Releases Revit 2011 Compatible VE Plug-in For Environmental Performance Analysis
May 18th
BOSTON, May 13, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES), a provider of integrated performance analysis software and consulting services for sustainable building design, today released an updated version of its VE plug-in to Autodesk Revit Architecture and MEP. The plug-in allows Revit 2011 users to easily export models into any of the IES Virtual Environment (VE) environmental building performance analysis tools; VE-Ware, VE-Toolkits, VE-Gaia and VE-Pro. Removing the need to re-build models, the IES plug-in greatly enhances design workflow and simulation accuracy, bringing comprehensive and integrated analysis options for all design stages to the Building Information Modelling (BIM) process.
This new IES VE plug-in now supports Revit 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. It offers enhanced model transfer capabilities and can handle challenging and complex geometry, as well as offering users the option to choose the level of geometry detail exported from the basic, to how shading surfaces are handled, to whether curtain wall mullions are counted as shading surfaces. The VE sets no explicit limits on the number of surfaces that it can import. This important capacity gives users ultimate control over geometry detail used for performance analysis and energy modelling within IES tools. Highly detailed curtain walling systems, multi-faceted shading surfaces and mullions, and additional complex shapes and junctions, can all be handled.
The IES VE tools offer a range of powerful performance assessment options suitable for all different design stages and user experience-level, while the integrated nature of the suite allows the interrelationships between energy use, CO2 emissions, solar, lighting, airflow and system design to be taken into account and analysed at a whole building level. Building mass and form, the climate, natural resource availability, occupancy, materials and services can all be taken into account to ‘virtually’ test the feasibility of different energy saving strategies and low carbon/ renewable technologies.
IES also offers a range of automated tools which assist with the LEED and GreenStar rating systems, and compliance with UK energy reduction and Performance Certificate regulations.
The latest version of the IES VE Revit Plug-in can be downloaded at http://www.iesve.com/Software/Model-Building/Revit-plug-in
Autodesk Developer Network Introduces Companion Products for Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011
May 18th
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Apr 06, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Autodesk, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!adsk/quotes/nls/adsk (ADSK 30.11, -0.04, -0.13%) announces that several Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) members have released companion solutions for Revit Architecture 2011 and AutoCAD Civil 3D 2011. ADN developers reconfigure Autodesk software for niche industries, providing customized products that streamline design efficiency, innovation and sustainability.
“ADN partners, offering companion solutions to Revit Architecture 2011 and Civil 3D 2011, are allowing their architecture, engineering and construction customers to efficiently and collaboratively model and design complex projects,” said Richard, Harpham, Autodesk director, AEC industry marketing. “These solutions extend building information modeling practices that cut the costs and time for delivering work. Our developer partners, building on Autodesk technology, are reaching millions of new customers in niche markets and, in turn, tremendously increasing the growth of BIM adoption and by helping customers become more competitive in winning work.”
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an integrated process for exploring a project’s key physical and functional characteristics digitally before it’s built, helping to deliver projects faster and more economically, while minimizing environmental impact. Coordinated, consistent information is used throughout the process to design innovative projects; better visualize and simulate real-world appearance, performance and cost; and create more accurate documentation.
ADN members that have released products supported by Autodesk Revit Architecture 2011 include:
– Adapt (www.adaptsoft.com/revitstructure/)
– Eagle Point (www.eaglepoint.com)
– GSA (www.gsa-network.com)
– hsbSOFT NV (www.hsbcad.de)
– Struc-Soft (www.strucsoft.ca)
– Trelligence (www.trelligence.com)
Analyze the effects of solar radiation on various surfaces of your conceptual building model.
May 16th
Use the Autodesk Solar Radiation Technology Preview for Revit 2011 to understand and quantify solar radiation on various surfaces of your conceptual building model.
Using the Autodesk Solar Radiation Technology Preview during the conceptual design stage of your project can help you make informed design decisions about building shape, orientation, and shading strategies early on when changes are least expensive.
The technology preview uses the geometry of conceptual massing elements from Revit and calculates the amount of solar radiation hitting the selected surfaces of the massing shapes, based on location and weather data. It is possible to display the distribution and availability of solar radiation over an entire building or even a city block. This can be particularly useful when considering shading requirements or assessing the best areas to place photovoltaics for maximum collection.
The Autodesk Solar Radiation Technology Preview is modeless and delivers an integrated experience within the Revit environment. This experience is made possible by the Analysis Visualization Framework, Dynamic Model Update, and other new API’s made available with the Autodesk Revit 2011 family of products.
This technology preview is a limited term release to seek customer feedback on its performance and expires on November 5th, 2010.
Remodel Your Home For Free? Sort Of…
May 14th
A new online tool helps consumers test out remodeling ideas, or just dream about their home’s possibilities — for free.
Z-Depth
Apr 2nd
Below you’ll see a Z-Depth pass, yet another trick that allows you to do some post production work on your illustration. The Z-Depth pass allows you to quickly mimic a cameras depth-of-field lens trick. Gaussian blur in post allows you, while using the z-depth channel, to control the blur from light to dark. Doing this allows you to have a foreground, which is important for your composition, but it will not overpower your illustrations focal point.
Ambient Occlusion
Apr 2nd
Ambient = Dark
Diffuses = Light
An Ambient Occlusion pass returns a gray scale image with intersecting geometry darker. This technique allows you to do some post production using layer manipulation. Revit 2011 has some built in Ambient Occlusion capabilities so be on a lookout in the next release.
The below image was created via a script and I use this technique on almost all of my work. It gives your illustration a more realistic feel. This is also how I create the museum board stills and animation.
Autodesk® Design Review software
Mar 31st
Accelerate architecture, engineering, or construction design workflows with Autodesk® Design Review software. The free*, integrated 3D model viewer provides team members who don’t use CAD software easy access to rich designs. It also reinforces the use of complete design data for building information modeling (BIM).
Accelerate Project Review Cycles
Significantly reduce time from building review and approval cycles and reduce printing and shipping costs by using Autodesk Design Review to mark up and review designs created with Revit® and AutoCAD® software products.
Effectively Show Designs in Client Presentations
Fully visualize drawings and walk through building models to create presentations that enable clients to experience a project before it is built.
Document Construction Change Orders
Use the markup and status-tracking tools in Autodesk Design Review to track the changes required throughout the construction process.
Publish, Share, and View
Conduct virtual walk-throughs of architectural models using the navigation wheel.
The Autodesk Seize the Opportunity Virtual Event
Mar 29th
Increase your speed and power without sacrificing flexibility. Deliver building, transportation, and environmental engineering projects faster and more economically. Design, visualize, and simulate ideas on screen – with no need for a physical prototype. It’s all possible with Autodesk® 2011 software.
Learn more at the Autodesk Seize the Opportunity Virtual Event. Attendance is free.
- See the Difference: Lynn Allen’s AutoCAD 2011 Tips & Techniques
- Go Beyond 3D to Digital Prototyping with Autodesk Inventor 2011
- Getting to Building Information Modeling (BIM)
- On the Road to Success: Autodesk Solutions for Roads and Highways
- Take Control with AutoCAD LT 2011 Software
Time: 7:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time / 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time
What’s new in Revt Architecture 2011?
Mar 25th
So what’s in RAC 2011 you may ask? RAC 2011 introduces some new concepts, an improved interface (needed too after the grief that Autodesk got about the Ribbon for 2010) as well as some genuine user feature requests. Whilst this blog just covers the main features it does not cover everything, but I do plan to cover specific functionality in future articles.
Project Chicago – LEEDs
Mar 19th
IPD + BIM
Mar 17th
IPD is the Infrastructure and B.I.M. is the vehicle.
Infrastructure is the basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function.
A vehicle (Latin: vehiculum) is a mechanical means of conveyance, a carriage or transport.
What’s New in 3ds Max 2011
Mar 10th
Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2011 3D modeling, animation, rendering software includes the following new and enhanced features:
- Slate, a new node-based material editor, enables you to more easily visualize and edit material component relationships.
- Quicksilver hardware renderer enables you to create high-fidelity pre-visualizations, animatics, and games-related marketing materials in less time.
- Graphite modeling and Viewport Canvas tools help accelerate modeling and texturing tasks.
- The new 3ds Max Composite feature offers high-performance, HDR-capable compositing tools and is based on technology from Autodesk® Toxik® software.
- 3ds Max 2010-compatible format enables you to save scene files to help manage the transition to 3ds Max 2011.
Watch Videos of these new features in Autodesk® 3ds Max® 2011
Trelligence Affinity for Revit Pre-Design | Programming | Schematic Phases
Feb 8th
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
- WinEstimator Revit-BIM Workshop | Marquette University-College of Engineering
- January-February 2010 Free University Seminars | WinEst Revit-BIM Construction-Estimating Technologies
Original article from the Revit-BIM Playbook
SmartBIM Library® Has Been Updated
Feb 4th
SmartBIM Library 3.8 Now Available
The SmartBIM Library from Reed Construction Data has been upgraded in its new release. We’ve added new content and enhanced features to ensure that SBL is a single source to simplify BIM content management. It is a cost-effective solution for Autodesk® Revit® users that:
- Streamlines design workflow
- Facilitates the generation of catalogs from Revit objects
- Simplifies storage, organization and location of Revit objects including user’s existing content
- Enables manufacturers, architects, engineers and building owners to easily share catalogs of objects
Get a product demo and/or download a trial version now!
Click here to determine your ROI with SmartBIM Library!
Industry Comments
The latest family update to SmartBIM is major. Impressive amount of plumbing fixtures, ceilings, mechanical equipment (!) has been added. And also too easy to drop too much stuff in my model… They’re doing a nice job.
Andrew Watkins, AIA, LEED AP, Senior Associate
Over 23,000 Quality Architectural Objects
SmartBIM Library comes pre-loaded with over 22,950 high quality Revit architecture family types. Reed, an AIA partner, created these SmartBIM objects to meet the high standards architects demand.
One Source To Simplify BIM Content Management
Automatically publish and load Revit families into SmartBIM Library from a user’s file system, Autodesk® Revit project files or Autodesk® Seek. Users can easily manage all BIM content in one place.
Create New Catalogs & Merge Content
Easily navigate the SmartBIM Catalog, find the object and simply drag-and-drop it into a Revit project. Architects have the flexibility to create a master office catalog, a catalog for each project or a catalog for each building type.
Search, View, Tag & Manipulate Objects
Users can view Revit Families by category and type, hierarchies, 3D thumbnails, DWF views or by searching family, property, type and userdefined tags. Drag-and-drop can also be used to insert families into a Revit project or save families to a directory folder.
Best Practices & Help in Organizing Data
SmartBIM Library’s flexible interface includes guidelines describing best practices for modeling objects in Revit. These guidelines include modeling advice for each Revit category, recommended family and type name conventions, tips on modeling for ‘count ability’ and design representation.
Product Features
- Support for Revit 2009 & 2010
- Over 23,000 high quality Revit architecture and engineering family types, including manufacturer specific objects and generic objects
- Family Content Publisher plug-in generates libraries for existing Revit objects
- Improve productivity by dragging objects from SmartBIM Library directly into Revit
- User-defined object tags allow users to identify objects according to their preferences
- Automatic content update service delivers new Revit families directly to the user desktop as soon as they are available
- Powerful search tools allow users to easily find content by family, type, properties, or object tag
- Create new catalogs and merge content for maximum object management flexibility
- Flexible navigation to Revit objects by thumbnail or by tree hierarchies including categories, families, and family types
- Open and search across multiple catalogs for increased efficiency
- Customized desktop allows users to turn panes on and off and re-size, move, arrange, and drag panes outside of the application frame for maximum flexibility
- Contains Revit modeling guidelines and suggested object naming conventions
Deployment
SmartBIM Library currently installs on the desktop or to a Local Area Network.
Learn More!
Learn how SmartBIM Library can load objects from architects’ files or other 3rd party sites, and create thumbnail and DWF views to make object selection easier. Demos are provided to demonstrate how SmartBIM Library organizes, displays and inserts Revit objects which assemble into Revit design projects. Also see Quick Cost Estimator and Quantity Take-Off tools as value added aspects of SmartBIM Library.
Get a product demo and/or download a trial version now!
Click here to determine your ROI with SmartBIM Library!
Download the SmartBIM Library Overview Sheet by clicking here.
Revit Architecture 2010 Wall Framing Extension
Jan 29th
A 20-minute overview of the Revit Wall Framing Extension, available in the Revit Subscription Advantage Pack.
Hooray! Wood wall framing in Revit Architecture! (and Revit Structure, and Revit MEP)
Revit Architecture 2010 Wall Framing Extension from Jason Pratt on Vimeo.
InterSpec Releases e-SPECS® Version 5.0
Jan 27th
January 25, 2009 – InterSpec Inc., the industry leading provider of BIM integrated construction specification software and services, today announced the release of version 5.0 of e-SPECS® with new functionality, more BIM integration and additional Building Product Manufacturer (BPM) Content. This year also marks the 6th Year Anniversary of the first commercially available releases for the e-SPECS for Revit and e-SPECS for AutoCAD applications.
New e-SPECS version 5.0 functionality includes:
e-SPECS for Revit Integration
- Over 100 new e-SPECS bindings to MasterSpec enables more “out-of-the-box” integration reducing initial implementation time
- New e-SPECS Model Validation Report supports linked models, filtering and direct assembly code assignment
- New Executive Summary and Table of Contents Reports within Revit provide early outline reporting and additional validation
- Omni-Class is now supported through e-SPECS BIM parametric bindings
- Uniformat assemblies with bindings are now bold for visual confirmation
- Custom family parametric values are now associated with their assembly enabling more detailed binding integration
e-SPECS Building Product Manufacturer BIM Model Integration
- e-SPECS Revit bindings associated with parameter field values enable tight BPM Revit family and system integration and coordination
- BPMs can ensure their product specs are included in the spec manual when their BIM families are used in the model
- Out-of-the-box e-SPECS binding integration includes BPM Program Members in the construction specification manuals
e-SPECS Designer
- Style Manager integration for creating, managing and using style guides within e-SPECS Designer
- Automatic checklist tagging of custom master sections supports SectionFormat 2008
- Paragraph formatting can be used on any style
- Tables may be added and managed in edit mode
e-SPECS Updates and Enhancements
- New Section History Report lists Imported, Inserted via Checklist, or Inserted via BIM Model Integration
- e-SPECS Editor includes bracket insertion and use with double-click editing
- Project Notes Reports have been added and Project Notes may be open while editing sections
- Existing Projects may be converted to Base Document Template Projects
- Direct links from e-SPECS to MasterSpec On-Line Supporting Documents
“We pride ourselves in listening to our customer and partner requests for new functionality to help further reduce time and cost associated in producing quality construction documents,” stated Gilles Letourneau, InterSpec CTO. “e-SPECS was first released in 2004 supporting the Microsoft SQL Server platform, leading CAD/BIM applications and MasterSpec guide specifications. In response to an e-SPECS customer survey, we focused our development in the area customers requested the most which included more BIM integration and validation, reporting and editor enhancements. It is truly gratifying to hear the testimonials and success stories from our customers and partners and we encourage as much feedback as possible to continue to improve the customer value that e-SPECS is enabling.”
Additional functionality is listed in the e-SPECS v5.0 Release Notes. All new customers and those customers under subscription or maintenance will receive e-SPECS version 5.0 and the new e-SPECS BPM libraries.
About InterSpec
InterSpec provides construction document management solutions and services built on its patented e-SPECS specification management technology. e-SPECS software automates the specification process by extracting the product and material requirements directly from the project’s BIM models and drawings. e-SPECS integrates directly with all Autodesk Revit-based BIM products as well as with Autodesk’s AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture and AutoCAD Systems products and supports all libraries of MasterSpec and custom office masters. For architects and engineers who spend many hours on every project preparing construction specifications, e-SPECS software saves time and money while ensuring that the construction drawings are coordinated with the specifications. For more information visit www.e-SPECS.com or contact sales at +1-207-772-6135 or email to .
e-SPECS is a registered trademark of InterSpec. MasterSpec is a registered trademark of the American Institute of Architects. Autodesk and Revit are registered trademarks or trademarks of Autodesk, Inc., and/or its subsidiaries and/or affiliates in the USA and/or other countries. All other brand names, product names, or trademarks belong to their respective holders.
