topic Re: Reinforced concrete addon in Collaboration with other software

Reinforced concrete addon

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:26:33 GMT

I tried to find some solution to make my colleague design reinforced concrete plans with ArchiCAD, but couldn't find it. I know there was one addon for this years ago, but it seems to disappear. Does anybody know anything that could help? Maybe a hint to Fabrizzio to think developing something like this?

Re: Reinforced concrete addon

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:51:52 GMT

Do you mean that you are trying to create structural drawings in ArchiCAD?
Partial Structure Display is your friend but there are no other structural-specific tools in AC.

Re: Reinforced concrete addon

Gorazd — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:53:17 GMT

There used to be an hungarian addon from AC 6.5 until AC8 that was based on objects. It is not available anymore so I think, it would be a "piece of cake" for addon maker like Cigraph .

Re: Reinforced concrete addon

Fabrizio Diodati — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:01:08 GMT

Why not?
If you could send me more details and specification I could think about it.

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Fabrizio

Re: Reinforced concrete addon

Gorazd — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:25:22 GMT

Glad to hear that Fabrizzio. My coleague will contact you on your mail you with more info.

Re: Reinforced concrete addon

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:06:58 GMT

I have been thinking about implementing something like this for some time now. I would much rather see Cigraph do it though. Here are my thoughts on the subject.

- It would be great to have the ability to link these objects through the add-on to other structural software like Tekla, Nemetschek SCIA ect.. This would quickly position Archicad as a full BIM solution like Revit. Both of these programs have the ability to model structural detailing components like re-bar and bolts. IFC does not allow these to transfer.

- These objects should allow a user to define templates for connections, reinforcing layouts ect. that could be applied to archicad native objects like beams, walls and columns. These smart objects could resize to match beam widths and other dimensions.

- Some simple ACI and AISC codes could be implemented for bar bend radius ect.

I think this would be a well recieved addition to the Archicad tool set.
"ArciStructural"

Re: Reinforced concrete addon

alemanda — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:28:49 GMT

Very interesting.
I think Archicad and GDL have all the "weapons" embedded inside themselves to beat every other BIM ...
I put my self available to develop the ideas with Cigraph ... I'm Italian and I'm very interested to this kind of addon ... We can start with the European code standards and ACI ...
Regards.

Re: Reinforced concrete addon

Fabrizio Diodati — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:32:47 GMT

So, alemanda,
please feel free to directly contact me.

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Fabrizio