If you’ve been looking for a way to streamline your building information modeling (BIM) workflow, you’re in luck.
BIM Connect 2016 is the newest version of an app released by BIM and CAD software developer GRAITEC and it’s designed as a powerful extension to bridge Autodesk Revit and GRAITEC’s own Advance software suite.
Available as a free download from the Autodesk App Store, BIM Connect 2016 is a file collaboration and interoperability app for Revit. It will let you exchange intelligent and structural BIM information bi-directionally and supports the transfer of building performance finite element method (FEM) results between GRAITEC Advance BIM suite platforms, including Advance Design, Arch and SuperSTRESS and Autodesk Revit products, including Architecture, MEP and Structure as well as Autodesk Advance Steel products.
BIM Connect 2016 is designed to share the geometrical shapes (including dynamic concrete section mapping to Revit families) and FEM results of Autodesk’s software. In so doing, it helps pave the way for an efficient and effective new way of organizing BIM workflows.
With the high level of automation being promised in next-generation BIM technology, this new app offers a more robust and flexible pseudo-platform. It’s capable of importing and exporting recognized BIM and collaboration formats, such as IFC, CIS2, SDNF and PSS, to support various disciplines and platforms.
“The uptake of BIM is growing at an exceptional rate. But as companies adopt new technologies and skills, they will also need to evolve their primitive, siloed workflows in order to realize the full potential of a truly intelligent BIM workflow,” says GRAITEC Product Strategy Director Carl Spalding.
Screenshot of BIM Connect 2016 in Autodesk Revit. (Image courtesy of Autodesk App Store.)
“GRAITEC BIM Connect enables users to collaborate effectively with accurate BIM models, but goes way beyond geometry to include building performance intelligence. Enabling access to constructability intelligence beyond the realm of the structural engineer office promotes a process where design decisions can continue to be taken with confidence throughout the design phase,” says Spalding.
“More importantly, this opens up new opportunities to take advantage of unrivaled automation offered by the next generation of BIM technology to come,” he adds.
For more information, check out www.graitec.com.
To learn more or download the BIM Connect 2016 app, click here.