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November/December 2005 >> Vol.23

Defending

design

Civil Action – Civil engineering at Autodesk and Bentley

Exclusive! AutoCAD to be given 3D facelift

Gun tower conversion

realised with

SolidWorks

AEC MAGAZINE NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2005

CONTENTS

AEC MAGAZINE

12 EVENT REPORT >> AUTODESK UNIVERSITY 2005

Once a year Autodesk holds an event for its customer to come and learn about

the tools they use every day, to hear about future plans and see forthcoming

technology in action, including the new 3D tools in next release of AutoCAD.

EDITORIAL

Publishing Director: Martyn Day

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Managing Editor: Greg Corke

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MCAD Technical Editor: Alistar Lloyd Dean

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Design Manager: Stuart Wilkes

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Publisher: Geoff Walker

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16 TECHNOLOGY >> MAPPING: INFORMATION, NOT DATA

James Cutler, CEO, eMapSite, looks at how Web services have enabled a new

breed of digital geographic data supplier to play the multi-part role of data

broker, data assimilation service and presentation toolkit.

18 SOFTWARE >> AUTODESK CIVIL 3D 2006

Changes made in Civil 3D automatically filter down through the design.

The result is a powerful tool which shows huge potential for civil engineering

projects, but lacks the maturity of a dedicated highway design package.

PRODUCTION

Production Manager: Dave Oswald

Email: dave@edaltd.co.uk

20 SOFTWARE >> BENTLEY CIVILS

AEC Magazine hasn’t covered Bentley Systems’ Civils products for a while,

so we caught up with Gregg Herrin, Global Marketing Director, Civil, to

discuss the current and somewhat extensive product portfolio.

ADVERTISING

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Accounts Director: Terry Wright

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22 TECHNOLOGY >> COUNT ON REVIT

In the latest of his series of articles on Autodesk Revit, CADline's Paul Woddy

looks at how Revit's powerful scheduling functionality can be extended, with

the use of additional parameters, to enable it to count more effectively.

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27 SOFTWARE >> ADVANCESTEEL 6.1

The latest release of this AutoCAD-based steel fabrication solution from CADS

adds greater depth to its modelling and connection tools, and aligns the

product more closely with complementary structural software solutions.

28 CASE STUDY >> DEFENDING DESIGN

To help transform a 200 year-old gun tower into a weekend retreat, Piercy Conner

architects and Price & Myers 3D Engineering used SolidWorks to ensure that the

complex roof structure planned for the conversion could be built within budget.

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34 TECHNOLOGY >> HARDWARE IN 2005

So what happened in hardware for CAD is this year? Rob Jamieson reviews

what changed our industry this year and how it affected CAD, or in reality the

software vendors who have to write for this new technology.

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To help transf orm a 200 year -old gun tower i nto a

w eekend retreat, Piercy Conner a rchitects and Pr ice &

Mye rs 3 D Engineeri ng used SolidW orks to ensure t hat

the com plex roof struct ure would satis fy the planning

departmen t and be built w ithin budget.

new online presence

Inform ation, no t data

Techn ology

Network i nfrastruct ure

Technology

For this mon th’s hardware tip s, Rob

Jamieso n takes a look at CAD in a

netw orked environme nt, how to avoid

n etwork collisions , and the import ance of

virus prot ection and verifie d backup.

Jame s Cutler, CEO, eM apSite, looks at how

W eb services have enabled a new b reed of

digital geograp hic data supplier to play the

multi - part role of data brok er, data

ass imilation service and presentation toolkit.

Count o n Revit

Technolo gy

Adv anceStee l 6.1

S oftware

T his Autumn, CAD S unveiled Versi on 6.1 of

its AutoCAD - b ased steel fabrica tion

solution, A dvanceSteel. The new release

adds g reater depth to its modelling and

connection tools , and aligns the p roduct more clos ely

with comple mentary structur al software soluti ons.

In the la test of his series o f articles on

Auto desk Revit, CADl ine's Paul Woddy

l ooks at how Revi t's powerful sched uling

functionality c an be extended, w ith the use

of add itional parameter s, to enable it to count more

eff ectively.

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Vis ualising Sh effield Ci ty Hall

Airf low

C ase Studies

With its ob ject - based design approach,

change s made in Civil 3 D automatically

filte r down through the design and

A s part of the refur bishment of She ffield

City Hall, one of Sheffield's key multi - use

i t

tional consu lting firm Arup

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NEWSDESK

Conceptual design for ArchiCAD

Bentley Building Electrical

Bentley Systems has

announced the release of

Bentley Building Electrical

Systems. The new software,

which provides electrical system

design and engineering, documentation, and manage-

ment, addresses the needs of consulting engineers,

contractors, owners, and facility managers in the

building industry. Based on elcoSystems UK tech-

nology, Bentley Building Electrical Systems can be

applied to a variety of subsystems. Examples include

electrical power, lighting, fire detection, security, and

communications. w

Graphisoft has announced its Virtual Building solution

tie-up with one of the most popular architects' prelimi-

nary design packages - SketchUp. The integration of

SketchUp with ArchiCAD is designed to let architects

focus on creativity at the earliest concept phase of any

new project, knowing that their designs can be automati-

cally imported into ArchiCAD and further developed.

Conceptual designs formed in SketchUp can be incor-

porated into the intelligent Virtual Building environment

where detail can then be added, and data interoperability

can open the model to a range of other applications.

Feasibility studies of volume and materials can be per-

formed at this sketch phase, linking the building data to

the SketchUp faces in ArchiCAD to support the design

brief at this early stage of client cooperation.

Meanwhile, a new ArchiCAD add-on called

MaxonForm is designed to enable 'organic' modelling

within the ArchiCAD environment. This follows a tie-up

with Maxon Computer, specialist in free-form modelling

and animation software, and developer of CINEMA 4D.

"This is extremely powerful - total design flexibility, but

delivered within the building's context rather than pro-

duced in isolation. The sculpted surfaces and features

therefore evolve with the design - exactly the way an archi-

tect expects it to work," says Simon Gilbert, ArchiCAD

Product Manager at Graphisoft. "We have integrated free-

form modelling into the entire design process."

www.graphisoft.com / www.sketchup.com

.com www.bentley.com

Waterman adopts Buzzsaw

Waterman Group is the latest

major UK engineering consultancy

to choose Autodesk Buzzsaw as its

online project collaboration

service. Waterman CAD manager,

Lee Barnard explains that the service is making it easier,

more efficient and quicker for teams to work across con-

tinents from the group’s offices and associates in Europe,

China, Africa, Russia and Australia. Buzzsaw is also

helping faster integration of teams from newly-acquired

companies following a period of expansion. It enables

them to share and manage drawings and other docu-

ments immediately before they have access to the

company’s main network.

Boost for 3D airflow prediction in buildings

Flomerics has released Version 6 of its Flovent software for

airflow prediction in buildings, with improved 3D visualisation

and enhanced treatment for glazed surfaces; curvilinear

geometry; angled fans; centrifugal blowers; and air-recircula-

tion devices. Support for the latest 64-bit CPUs is also now

available. Flovent is designed to enable enables engineers to

minimise energy consumption and predict and eliminate

airflow problems or hazards early in the design process

before building construction or refurbishment begins.

Flovent 6 delivers enhanced 3D visualisation with the

ability to create a source of "virtual particles" anywhere in

the solution domain in order to visualise 3D airflow to and

from that point. Particles or streamlines can be colour-

coded with a secondary variable such as local temperature

or contaminant concentration, yielding a large amount of

design information in a single view. 3D "walk-through" is

available and texture maps can be applied to all surfaces to

create photo-realistic environments. Animations can be

saved as video clips and included in presentations.

Flovent 6 also provides a new fully-automatic treatment

for heat gains and losses through glazing, with allowance

for the effects of transmission, absorption and reflection.

Automatic calculation of solar loading is built-in. A new

tetrahedral object provides improved representation of

curved 3D shapes. Time-varying ambient temperatures can

be input with ease. Fans and louvers set at an angle to the

grid can now be simulated, as well as centrifugal blowers in

which the air outlet is 90 degrees from the air inlet.

Automatic optimisation allows users simply to specify a

design goal and upper and lower limits for design variables

- Flovent then finds the optimum combination of design

variables automatically.

www.buzzsaw.com

www.flomerics.com

AutoCAD hits top gear

Architects and other design pro-

fessionals can complete projects

even faster using new features in

Autodesk’s AutoCAD 2006 soft-

ware, according to a recent

research study completed by the UK-based IT con-

sulting firm, Cambashi. Study participants using new

features in AutoCAD 2006 completed typical design

and documentation tasks 29 percent faster than partic-

ipants using AutoCAD 2002. www.autodesk.co.uk

WSP invests in design and simulation tool

SOM adopts SketchUp

Skidmore , Owings & Merrill LLP

(SOM) has purchased SketchUp

for firm-wide deployment, giving

more than 900 SOM profes-

sionals worldwide access to the

conceptual design solution.

Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) has announced that WSP UK, a major construction and property

engineering and management consultancy, has specified the IES <Virtual Environment> to replace its existing

building design and simulation software. This represents a £60,000 company-wide investment.

WSP chose the IES <VE> as it offers an integrated approach, bringing together all the design strands needed in

one unified system. It operates from a single building model shared by all the building assessment applications and

can also be used with existing CAD systems.

"We were particularly impressed with the software's capability in terms of heat loss and gain calculations, thermal

simulation and Part L analysis," says Neville Rye, Director, WSP Buildings UK "These are of particular importance with

the implementation of the European Directive for Building Performance planned for January 2006.

WSP has purchased the core Integrated Data Model, accompanied by a range of assessment applications

including those that look at thermal analysis, duct and pipe sizing, Part L regulations, and lighting and solar analysis.

The software will be available to all UK offices across WSP's Wide Area Network.

www.sketchup.com

www.iesve.com

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