BIM software for efficiently designing wood-frame walls, floors and roofs with SIP panels
Wood Framing SIPS makes wood framing with structural insulated panels – prefabricated building components for use as walls, floors and roofs – fast and easy with real-time, full-project updates in Revit®. Plus the software generates views with automatic dimensions for panels or segments as well as accurate bills of materials and shop drawings. So quality production and accurate assembly on site are ensured.
For a roof of any architectural shape, the software instantly splits a selected side or the entire roof by faces (slopes). Likewise, an entire floor can be split according to its supporting structure.
Connectors, cuts, supports and other details can be distributed based on predefined rules or connection types and can then be modified or updated to suit the project design stage and the level of detail required. The insulated foam core between rigid board sheathing (of which SIPs are composed) are created as parts in Revit®.
All frames with SIP parts and the layout of frame elements and details can be modified and updated whenever the project is changed. Dynamic update functionality can make changes to all frames with SIPs of the same type at once.
Wall, floor and roof frame elements in the project can easily be marked based on their properties and locations in the layer. And information for fabrication can be automatically generated with all desired views, schedules and drawings for each wall, floor and roof panel.
POWERFUL FEATURES
WALL FRAMING
Automates wood framing work with walls in Revit® projects. Powerful, flexible, and easy to use. It helps you make optimal choices, move much faster, and avoid errors at every BIM stage – from design and documentation to wall segment fabrication and construction.
- Create detailed multilayer timber wall framing for your Revit model in a snap using fully customizable rules and templates
- Frame multi-story houses 10 times faster than using standard Revit interface
- Control stud, nogging, bridging, blocking, bracing placement, diverse openings, configure complex L or T connections, details, service hole positions and more
- Auto-distribute nailers, siding, and fastenings
- Create all log house elements and group (pack)/number them automatically
- Freely revise your Revit® model, with simple selection of the elements and properties you want to modify
- Find structural and engineering clashes; cut and frame openings according to predefined rules
- One-click generation of shop drawings and cut lists; get real-time take-offs and views, automatic sorting, dimensioning
- Optional export to any CNC machines and CAD/CAM production lines, such as WEINMANN, Randek, etc.
- Wall frames and shop drawings update and adapt according to any changes
- Perform structural analyses without leaving Revit or export your wood frames to external analysis software at any stage of design process
WALL & JOIN MANAGEMENT
A powerful add-on for managing walls in Revit®, letting you rapidly disassemble layers into different wall types, fully control joins and gap distances, split walls into separate panels with predefined settings, insert gravity points, and manage information with an export-to-Excel feature.
- Manage information of all walls in your project
- Export filtered, grouped, or selected information (wall parameters) to Excel
- Decompose wall layers into separate wall types according to user's predefined configuration
- Fully control joins and gap distances between walls
- Insert gravity points
- Add additional information about real wall orientation, elevation, or coordinates
- Split walls at exact locations by using grid lines, openings, or other walls
- Split walls automatically by predefined panel size
FLOOR FRAMING
Automates wood framing work with floors in Revit® projects. It's powerful, flexible and easy to use. It helps you make better decisions, move much faster and avoid errors at every BIM stage – from design and documentation to segment fabrication and construction.
- Auto-generate detailed multilayer floor framing for your Revit model using predefined or custom rules and templates
- Frame multi-story houses 10 times faster than using standard Revit interface
- Easily control supporting structure, including battens and flooring; distribute details, service holes and more
- Automate sheathing layouts
- Freely revise your Revit model by easily selecting the elements and properties you want to modify
- Find structural and engineering clashes; cut and frame openings according to predefined rules
- Easily prepare shop drawings and cut lists, with all required views, where elements are dimensioned, sorted, tagged, scheduled, and mass calculated
- Optional export to any CNC machines and CAD/CAM production lines, such as WEINMANN, Randek, etc.
- Floor frames update and adapt according to any changes
- Perform structural analyses without leaving Revit, or export your wood frames to external analysis software at any stage of design process
PREFABRICATED FLOOR PANELING
Takes the architect’s designed floor and automates panel layout planning. The software draws symbolic lines to indicate the future panels according to predefined rules. Then it creates real Revit floor panels.
- Panel Layout Planning includes functions for better understanding how the floor will be divided. Users can control every division line and automate the division process by predefined rules
- From the beginning, the architect’s designed floor can be divided into coarse partitions, or Regions. Regions can be created automatically by using Floor edges and supports (split lines), and also by Generic or System Openings with predefined distances
- Regions can be divided into Panels by predefined spacing
- Panels can be aligned, modified by selected floor face, and additionally split
- Various automated splitting functions facilitate the process: users can split the panels in half, by maximum spacing, by middle to both ends, in middle and to both ends, from first selected, or from both ends
- Selected Regions or Panels can be joined, if needed
- Creates individual panels for the selected floor face or for the whole floor
- These entire floor Panels can later be moved into the new phase through its Properties for better filtering and scheduling
TRUSS FRAMING
Gives Revit® users a single robust platform to generate wood truss systems instantly, perform structural analysis, and auto-generate shop drawings tailored to your standards. Functions are versatile, parameters are easy to control, and changes occur in real time.
- Build full truss systems in one go with the configurable 3D grid (escaping the limited and time-consuming nature of standard Revit® truss family insertion)
- Easily assess options – such as wooden truss framing – in economic, structural or systemic terms, to make the best decisions
- Create new parametric uniquely shaped truss families based on model lines and roofs for immediate use in your projects
- Freely revise your Revit® model; update and adapt truss systems
- Get real-time take-offs and views, automatic creation of shop drawings and cut lists, and easy export to CNC machines
PREFABRICATED ROOF PANELING
Enables easy roof panel planning and splitting into segments for prefabrication which can then be used in the roof framing process.
- Panel Layout Planning functions let you better understand how a roof will be divided. Users can control every division line and can predefine rules to automate the division process
- Initially an architectural roof can be divided into coarse partitions – regions. Regions can be created automatically on the basis of roof ridge ends and valley rafter bottom ends as well as windows and generic or system openings with predefined distances
- Regions can be divided into panels using predefined spacing
- Panels can be aligned and modified for an individual roof side or region and additionally split
- A variety of automated splitting functions help to easily get the needed result. Panels can be split in half, by maximum spacing, from the middle to both ends, in the middle and to both ends, from the initially selected end or from both ends
- Selected regions or panels can be joined, if needed
- Creates individual panels for the selected roof side or for the whole roof
- The full roof panels can later be taken to a new phase via their properties for better filtering and scheduling
ROOF PANEL FRAMING
A powerful solution for prefabricated roof panels in Revit®. It enables easy roof panel planning and splitting into segments for prefabrication which can then be used in the roof framing process.
- Panel Layout Planning functions let you better understand how a roof will be divided. Users can control every division line and can predefine rules to automate the division process
- Initially an architectural roof can be divided into coarse partitions – regions. Regions can be created automatically on the basis of roof ridge ends and valley rafter bottom ends as well as windows and generic or system openings with predefined distances
- Regions can be divided into panels using predefined spacing
- Panels can be aligned and modified for an individual roof side or region and additionally split
- A variety of automated splitting functions help to easily get the needed result. Panels can be split in half, by maximum spacing, from the middle to both ends, in the middle and to both ends, from the initially selected end or from both ends
- Selected regions or panels can be joined, if needed
- Creates individual panels for the selected roof side or for the whole roof
- The full roof panels can later be taken to a new phase via their properties for better filtering and scheduling
PRECISION OPENINGS FOR MEP SERVICES AND BUILDING STRUCTURES
Creates openings with fire safety components throughout a Revit® model where ducts, pipes, cable trays and conduits intersect with walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, beams and columns. Cut Opening creates openings with special holding details for structural beams.
- Automatically creates openings where ducts, pipes, cable trays or conduits intersect walls, floors, roofs, ceilings, beams or columns
- Automatically adds openings with predefined sizes in accordance with MEP line based element sizes, categories and system classifications
- Automatically joins openings with predefined configurations
- Automatically inserts Fire Dampers where ducts clash with walls, floors, ceilings or roofs with fire rating
- Automatically inserts structural openings for separated architectural and structural models
- Enhance BIM-team work and deliverables for integrated project delivery (IPD)
FLEXIBLE ELEMENT AND GRID RENUMBERING
Renumber Revit® elements just the way you want, detect and renumber grids, determine swing direction and orientation (and add them as properties), recalculate shared coordinates, and much more.
- Detects grid geometry and renumbers them
- Renumbers grids automatically after they have been changed in the project
- Powerful and flexible functions allow renumbering of any Revit elements (Doors, Windows, Beams, Columns, Pipes, etc.) in a number of different ways
- Writes swing direction for the doors into the door's properties
- Writes flip/mirror orientation for the selected elements
- Recalculates shared X, Y, Z coordinates
- Creates new shared parameters and many more functions
- Possibility to save numbering settings under the separate name
- Possibility to sort elements in Ascending/Descending order
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Developed in compliance with standards and guidelines:
Eurocode 5: Design of timber structures – Part 1-1: General – Common rules and rules for buildings (EN 1995-1-1:2004: E)
Standards Australia AS 1684.2-2010 Residential timber-framed construction
Standards Australia AS 1720.1-2010 Timber structures - Design methods
New Zealand Standard NZS 3604:2011 / Timber Framed Buildings
CWC (Canadian Wood Council) Wood Design Manual including CSA O86 Standard and CWC Commentary on CSA O86 (2010).
National Design Specification® (NDS®) for Wood Construction (NDS 2015). American Forest and Paper Association (AF&PA). American Wood Council, Washington DC, 2015.
The Encyclopedia of Trusses. Alpine Engineered Products, Inc., 2003.
Truss Design Procedures and Specifications for Light Metal Plate Connected Wood Trusses / TPIC – 2014. Truss Plate Institute of Canada (TPIC), 2014.
Using Narrow Pieces of Wood Structural Panel Sheathing in Wood Shear Walls. American Plywood Association (APA), The Engineered Wood Association, Tacoma, Washington, 2005.
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Wood Framing SIPS is brought to you by AGACAD. Pricing was not known at press time.
This add-in is compatible with Revit 2019, 2018, and 2017.
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