Precast Concrete – Comprehensive Modeling of Precast Concrete Elements

From the AGACAD website:

COMPREHENSIVE BIM SOFTWARE FOR DETAILED MODELING OF PRECAST CONCRETE ELEMENTS IN REVIT®

Precast Concrete enables you to quickly and easily model prefabricated concrete walls, floors, and columns and get full project updates in the Revit platform in real time. Create element views with automatic dimensions, and generate bills of materials and shop drawings for quality production and accurate assembly on site.

• Model precast walls and floors with easy split, update and modify options
• Insert connection details, plates, grout tubes, anchors, etc. using flexible rules setup
• Manage changes in your project and benefit from dynamic updating of assemblies
• Automatically sort elements and prepare shop drawings for final documentation

CREATE PRECAST ELEMENTS – INSERT DETAILS – SORT ELEMENTS – CREATE DRAWINGS

• Avoid wasting time: lengthy tasks automated and/or eliminated.
• Eliminate useless costs: profit boosted by faster work and easier updating
• Don’t risk falling short: best practices built-in for any design standards

Client Stories:

Savolainen: Precast suite has “game-breaker” BIM tools

This Finnish engineering firm says its design services have benefited greatly from the tools in AGACAD’s Precast Concrete suite for Revit®, which are now at the core of the company’s processes for element design and shop drawings.

JPS-Konsult: “We’re hooked on Precast Concrete and other AGACAD solutions”

This Nordic engineering firm says AGACAD’s BIM software has brought big efficiency gains for its precast concrete and wood framing projects, helped it win new clients, and enabled the company to handle more complex projects.

Norconsult: “The Precast Concrete suite brought efficiency and flexibility” 

Automated custom shop drawings were the main reason this international engineering firm got AGACAD’s software for modelling precast concrete elements in Revit. But it now says the benefits are much bigger, and have been welcomed both by the members of its team and its customers.



THE COMPLETE SOLUTION FOR PRECAST ELEMENT DESIGN AND DOCUMENTATION

POWERFUL FEATURES

PREFABRICATED FLOOR PANELLING

• Automatically divides an architectural floor into regions by using supports, edges, and openings.
• Divides and creates separate slabs from selected floor or floor faces by a predefined spacing and layout method.
• Creates individual floor segments – solid or hollow core slabs – according to panel layout.
• Updates panels accordingly if the architect’s floor design changes.
• Created panels can easily be controlled, aligned, modified, or additionally split.

WALL AND JOIN MANAGEMENT TOOLBOX 

• Easily divide walls and control, change or update gaps between them anytime. 
• Quickly decompose multilayer walls into separate walls while keeping openings in place. 
• Check, edit, change and write wall parameters in a project with the handy Modify/Calculate Parameters window. 

LOD 400 MODELING AUTOMATION IN REVIT

Insert grout tubes, cast-in plates, anchor bolts, lifting bolts and cuts on any surface of beams and walls. 

• Rule-based distribution of details and voids on any element surfaces. 
• Simple insertion of point-based and line-based details. 
• Host-element data can be read and used to modify detail families automatically. 
• Easily rotate/flip details in configuration window to get desired result. 
• Check whether host element has enough solid body for detail to be inserted. 
• Insert details according to gravity point. 
• Insert details at intersection points of other Revit elements. 
• Quick modification and updating of inserted details. 
• Automatically insert details based on a defined configuration name. 
• Smart Assemblies, used for workshop drawings, recognizes changes made by Smart Details. 

FLEXIBLE ELEMENT AND GRID RENUMBERING

Sort and add “Mark” values to precast elements on the basis of their volume, location, ID, length or any other available parameters. 

• Powerful and flexible functions let you easily renumber any Revit elements (beams, columns, foundations, walls, connections, etc.) in a number of different ways. 
• Automatic recalculation of shared X, Y, Z coordinates. 
• Create new shared parameters and benefit from many other handy functions. 
• Save numbering settings under a separate name. 
• Sort elements in ascending or descending order. 

SHOP DRAWING GENERATION WITH RELEVANT VIEWS AND DIMENSIONS

Create views of foundations, walls, beams, columns and floors with automatic dimensions and place them into sheets. 

• Automatic addition of all hosted elements to an assembly 
• Use varied templates to automatically create views 
• Auto-generate schedules based on schedule templates 
• Rule-based creation of dimensions with notes in selected views 
• Place views on sheets automatically based on a sheet template 
• Create multiple assemblies with defined configurations in a single click 
• Easily check, update, edit and change dimensioning configurations of selected assemblies 
• Update assemblies on the basis of project changes. 
• Select/find/isolate primary and secondary assemblies. 
• Find changes in assemblies due to new hosted details. 
• Insert details/cuts on all assemblies of the same type with one click. 
• When making shop drawings, Smart Assemblies recognizes changes made by Smart Details to enable quick detailed modeling.

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Precast Concrete is brought to you by AGACAD. Pricing was not known at press time.

This add-in is compatible with Revit 2018, 2017, and 2016.

There's more information available on the AGACAD website.