Advantage of using BIM in design of building structures. Engineer's personal experience
The main advantage of working in Revit is the absence of mistakes and discrepancies between the dimensions of the façades and the dimensions of the plans or sections of the designed model in comparison with CAD. This happens extremely often, when you change something in one section, and you forget to change the same in the other one, as there are a lot of sections and plans, and it is difficult to keep track of everything. Due to this, problems arise after the issue of documentation and further in the course of fabrication. Thus, you lose your professional status in customers' eyes. Moreover, when using BIM, the pace of work significantly increases, because a three-dimensional model is formed immediately and using it you can make sections or façades in a couple of clicks, there is no need to re-draw them along projected connection lines. This is colossal time-saving.
The second main advantage in comparison with CAD is that the adjacent design disciplines "HVAC", "Production Technology", "Thermal Engineering Solutions" form a spacious model, as well, and it can be inserted in the project as a substrate . This improves perception and makes work easier. Rolled metal lists, bills of elements, bills of scope of work are calculated individually and tabulated without errors, which is an advantage and saves time.
The second main advantage in comparison with CAD is that the adjacent design disciplines "HVAC", "Production Technology", "Thermal Engineering Solutions" form a spacious model, as well, and it can be inserted in the project as a substrate . This improves perception and makes work easier. Rolled metal lists, bills of elements, bills of scope of work are calculated individually and tabulated without errors, which is an advantage and saves time.
Filters that help to hide elements that are not needed for a given view form an important tool in Revit. Moreover, it's easy to apply these filters to other views that saves time.
In addition to hotkeys, the program can also load and use scripts for a particular action, which to a great extent optimise the work.
I often use a substrate from AutoCAD, when the architecture or something else is made in CAD. And on the basis of the substrate, you can build a model. Revit supports embedding from CAD. This is where Revit – AutoCad interconnection comes in handy.
In addition to hotkeys, the program can also load and use scripts for a particular action, which to a great extent optimise the work.
I often use a substrate from AutoCAD, when the architecture or something else is made in CAD. And on the basis of the substrate, you can build a model. Revit supports embedding from CAD. This is where Revit – AutoCad interconnection comes in handy.
When modelling is completed, you can take a look at the 3-dimensional model. Rotate it and even "walk" on it. This makes it possible to assess the availability of a walkthrough, or an access road, or how to get to hard-to-reach places. Sometimes I do visualisation to get a beautiful and full picture of the designed object.
In addition to the development of design drawings, you can make a general arrangement plan, technology, heating and ventilation, visualisation, it feels like you can do any work in the program.
In my work, quite a few projects have been implemented using BIM, and every time I can see for myself that it is fast, high-quality, and error-free!
In addition to the development of design drawings, you can make a general arrangement plan, technology, heating and ventilation, visualisation, it feels like you can do any work in the program.
In my work, quite a few projects have been implemented using BIM, and every time I can see for myself that it is fast, high-quality, and error-free!
