BIM FOR RAILING MANUFACTURES

What’s BIM

A BIM object is a parametric 3d model of your products, better than classic DWG o 3DS; it could be like a real tool with many parameters and informations about manufactures products (link to pdf, specifics, cost, quantities, ecc.).
“BIM (Building Information Modeling) allows teams of architects, engineers, construction companies, and product manufacturers along with the main stakeholders, to work together in a coordinated manner in a project; using a 3D digital model to simulate all of the building´s lifecycle. (concept, design, construction, maintenance). Unlike traditional schematics, the information contained in a BIM project is coordinated, precise, and consistent with the ability to reach all project phases and to keep updated no matter how many times the design changes. As a result construction and infrastructure projects are developed better, faster, more economically, and more sustainable." (cit. LINK). BuildingSMART is the main indipendent international organization is providing support to building sector to move towards OpenBIM, with the standard format IFC. See more at www.buildingsmart.org

BIM European regulations

"The adoption of the European Directive (DIRECTIVE 2014/24/EU OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 26 February 2014 on public procurement and repealing Directive 2004/18/EC - LINK ) , which has as its official is European Directive for Public Procurement , which states that the 28 European union member states, starting January 2016, may require, specify, promote, or mandate the use of BIM in construction projects financed by EU public funds. The United Kingdom, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, and Norway already require BIM for public works.”  (cit. LINK)

BIM and manufactures

“….. Manufacturers use a wide range of software, which is often aligned to the machining process such as Autodesk Inventor. This information is produced for manufacture but can just as easily be used for design if the data within it is matched to a standard protocol. Designers need access to this information but not all the detail. They need the geometry and some performance data but not everything. If the manufacturer can provide this information easily to the designer the detail can be included in the model early, preventing errors later in the workflow……"(cit. LINK)

BIM advantages for railings manufactures

The BIM object is not like an object designed with Autodesk Inventor. It is simplest in definition; it could have parameters to set different combinations of components and details according to the drawing scale used; it could be as a real tool to draw railings; it could have other extra components such as sheet metal, wall, sill, foundation; it has all the informations the manufacturer wants, such us ID, costs, catalogue ref. A BIM Railing object could be used by manufacture in this situations:
- For designer and architect, providing for free the tool, creating a tool customized for each railing model, to use from conceptual to working drawing
- For designer and architect, providing special clients a custom tool to evaluate their own design
- For designer and architect, providing them experimental railing styles you are working on without produce them
- For Railing seller, to provide them a tool to create rapid drawings for client evaluation and production
- For manufacture internal use to evaluate new railings style on visualisations without going in production
- For manufacture the tool can be used as powerful method in demonstrations in fair and exhibition
- You can put your BIM objects on BIM cloud portal such us BIMobject and reach more than 100.000 subscriptions, monitor the downloads of your objects and send mail to them.

Our Service

We would provide you our BIM railing tools customized on the features of your own railing systems. The tool is made for architects for simplicity of use. You can put the tool on BIM Portal such us BIMobject, free for all designers; they can use your products since competition or conceptual drawings and visuals. The tool is mainly made for all architects and designers, but also your company designers could have benefits from it. It means for your company reach a huge quantity of clients compared with to contact clients only in construction phase. The new European rules for BIM public building will make this tool very useful to achieve all the designer purposes. The power of GDL language in Archicad make you able to personalize the tool as you want, by a friendly interface with icons and images.