topic Archicad Export and Import issues in Collaboration with other software

Archicad Export and Import issues

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:03:28 GMT

While BIM doesn´t get 1, 2 3....How can we share data between AC with different CAD softwares??

Re: Archicad Export and Import issues

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:09:17 GMT

renato wrote:
While BIM doesn´t get 1, 2 3....How can we share data between AC with different CAD softwares??

Is there anybody out there dealing with Microstation files?? We need to share AC files to Microstation (dgn seems to export only 2D top plan) in 3D.Unfortunately, our recent tests points for an awful 2d output, which restricts more professional use os this lovely tool in industrial use.
I ´d like to know if Graphisofts can provide an add on for exporting and importing dgn files more natively, or maybe some third company does....
Please help me......

Re: Archicad Export and Import issues

__archiben — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:59:25 GMT

IFC...

'industry foundation class' is designed as a format 'standard' for import/export throughout the construction industry. graphisoft are 2x2 compliant and soon to be 2x3. from the looks of the page below, bentley are also there or thereabouts with their IFC compliance.

http://www.bauwesen.fh-muenchen.de/iai/ImplementationOverview.htm

from archiCAD 10... File>File Special>IFC>...

~/archiben

Re: Archicad Export and Import issues

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:41:30 GMT

Hi Ben Frost
Thanks for your answer. We are in final phase of analysys of translation procedures involving AC in a professional environment running both PDS and PDMS which are very expensive packs for modelling pipes, tubes and a lot of interferences but their lack of a civil tools to deal with architecture is a problem. As Microstation is the basis of all possible translation, we have to work on all problems generated by AC in the desired workflow. WE have recently seem a demonstration of Tekla structural ( Gorgeous piece of Human Intelligenece) despite it is a very xpensive pack. Of course, their staff was not aware of Archicad´s BIM integration with Tekla. They clerly declared AC 10 was not a big deal from them.(weird, since there´s a link at Graphisoft´s web page pointing its compatibility.
In 20 years of CAD experience, mostly industrial, I have never seen a pack like AC 10, easy of use, and most of all, very stimulatting to learn. This is a reason we want to use it instead of Revit ( which writes and reads dgn files naturally). Let´s see what happens on close future.