Post on 28-Aug-2020
Linking 2D & BIM – Revit & CostX
Linking 2D & BIMRevit & CostX
File Formats
• Revit files → DWFx™ = Design Web Format
• Highly compressed, reduces file size significantly, easier to transmit and store
• Secure Autodesk file format to view, review or print design files
• Retains object data (most importantly)
• Designers can publish a model and sheets (all within a single DWFx™ file)
• Edit the content of the DWFx™ to limit what the recipients sees.
• This doesn’t work for IFCs as this is a model file type, DWFx™ is both 2D and 3D
• CostX® Drawing File Optimisation Guide for best practice
Linking 2D & BIMRevit & CostX
– Revit
• Revit model → Generate views and sheets with title blocks
• Publish model to DWFx™
– CostX® – Drawing Sets
• Linking a model with its 2D views and sections; Architectural, Structural, MEP
• Created automatically if bound together by designer
• Drawing sets can be created at any time
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Why is this so important?
• Essential design information on 2D sheets & views
– Key notes
– Specification
• Missing geometry
• Zoning of quantities
• Measuring directly from sections
• Being able to interpret drawings in a more familiar fashion
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More reasons
• It’s a perspective of the model that everyone is used to!
• Helps massively for checking the accuracy of quantities in the model
• Predominantly bills produced in Ireland and Middle East and having just a model can prove difficult for intricate measures
• Our clients across the world request DWFs which is a safe and secure file format that retains object information.
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Model Activity
Structural - Checking
• Checking the quantities of the floor slab
• Area, Length & Volume
Architectural - Measurement• Measuring items in 2D that may not be modelled in Revit
• Timber Skirting
MEP - Zoning• Using the 2D views to allocate dimensions into Zones
• Lighting fixtures zoned to schedule the order of installation
Linking 2D & BIMRevit & CostX
Linking 2D & BIMRevit & CostX
Live Demonstration
Milan ParmarProduct Specialistmparmar@exactal.com