SMARTER DWG DRAWINGS FOR BIM PROJECTS
BEST-IN-CLASS CAD SOFTWARE TO DOCUMENT REVIT AND IFC PROJECTS IN DWG
Leverage The Intelligence Of BIM To Automate CAD Drawings Production
Import .RVT or .IFC Models
Import RVT 2011 to RVT 2021 (Revit file format) or IFC 2×3, 4, 4×1, 4×2, and 4×3 (open BIM exchange format) into your DWG files.
Filter BIM Information
Filter out the information you need from the BIM project and read BIM object properties.
Extract & Plot Properties
Extract BIM object properties into tables or export to Microsoft Excel (eg. for cost calculation).
Refresh DWG based on BIM
Refresh the geometry of generated drawings with new versions of the BIM project once the project updates. Thus your DWG files stay up-to-date with the BIM-Model easily.
Auto-generate 2D drawings
Extract 2D drawings from the BIM project and add further DWG content.
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Highlights of the BIM drawings features in ARES Commander
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The Benefits Of Connecting BIM To DWG With ARES Commander
BIM models in itself are oceans of information
The BIM features in ARES Commander allows to access, visualize, and understand BIM Data in all its very details. The BIM toolset makes quantity takeoffs easy, allows accurate auto-generation of DWG drawings directly from the BIM model, as well as plotting of selected elements, groups and entities. Being a full-featured DWG CAD Software it allows futher addition of CAD details directly in the DWG drawings.
Faster drawings production with higher level of details
Highly detailed 2D drawings are much easier to assess and validate than 3D BIM files in which information is hidden in properties, which is another major reason why construction projects are documented with DWG technical drawings: the files shared with customers or partners represent a legal liability.
With drawings you can organize technical information in a logical and practical way. Drawings help to drive the focus on important details. They clarify what is committed and validated to execute properly the project.
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Smart & Intelligent DWG-Drawings
from BIM files
with ARES Commander
BIM Drawings Features In ARES Commander
Import RVT & IFC projects in your DWG file
The BIM Navigator enables you to import both .rvt (Autodesk Revit(R) file format) and .ifc (IFC – Industry Foundation Classes) files. You can even combine BIM information from multiple files and visualize the result in 3D.
Explore the BIM information
Use the BIM Navigator to explore the construction tree of your BIM projects with all the disciplines, classes, types, objects and more. You can visualize the BIM project in 3D and the BIM objects will appear highlighted when they are selected in the BIM navigator.
BIM Properties Palette
Accessing such information will significantly help the CAD user to understand the project and in turn improve the drawings.
BIM Filters
BIM Data Extraction
Extract the BIM data from a selection of objects. The data extracted can be inserted as a table inside the drawings or exported to a .csv file to further work in a spreadsheet.
Use cases include BOM (Bill of Materials), surveys, quantity take-offs, cost-estimation and more.
Easily Create Floor Plans, Sections & Elevations and Automate Drawings
Add additional details and content using your CAD skills
Organise Views via Layouts
Build Layouts with multiple Sheets easily: Each BIM drawing represents a detailed view of the BIM model that can be placed at the right scale on a layout sheet. Each sheet then can be configured with multiple viewports.
Layouts are ready to print and behave exactly like in any other DWG file. If you share your DWG file with someone using another CAD software he will be able to read your DWG file and see the exact same layouts.
Still, the advantage in ARES Commander is that your layouts keep an associativity with the BIM model and can therefore be updated when a new version of the BIM is imported.
Minimize efforts to update drawings when BIM is modified
BIM and CAD are frequently two processes running side by side. But you certainly don’t want to miss any small update nor redo all your drawings again and again…
With ARES Commander you can reload the BIM projects you imported previously and update your drawings. The 2D geometry inside your BIM drawings will be updated and so will be also all the layouts you created before. Besides, all the CAD entities you added on top to annotate and draw details will remain unchanged.
BIM Material Mapper
Automate the style of 2D entities with the new materials mapper by configuring rules customizing and harmonizing the style of the entities in BIM drawings following your preferences. A “set-once / use for every drawing” name mapping interface will soon allow you to assign to materials a specific color, hatch or graphic style.
BIM Labels Automation
As the BIM drawings retain all the BIM information of the objects we can leverage this intelligence to automate more tedious tasks.
With BIM labels you can select one or more objects and automate the generation of labels containing specific information extracted from the BIM properties. Thus you may select all the windows and generate a label for each one showing dimensions, rise and type.
Most interestingly the BIM labels will automatically update when the BIM model is refreshed.
Smart BIM Dimensions
Just like for BIM labels, the intelligence of the BIM objects can be leveraged to create a smarter type of dimensions.
With BIM dimensions you can select multiple entities and generate very quickly aligned dimensions. For instance it could be all the entities of a specific wall. If the BIM model is updated, not only the geometry of your BIM drawing will be updated but also these BIM dimensions.