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2020-05-06 04:33 PM - last edited on 2022-05-16 02:26 PM by Rubia Torres
2021-02-21 09:19 PM
2021-02-25 03:17 PM
vdentello wrote:Do settings angles for bend have any effect? or am I missing something?
I would add the Option to make custom Bends selectable and also their angles.
As long as they meet the GDL standard parameter criteria, of course.
2021-02-25 03:54 PM
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2021-04-14 11:20 AM
I want to know whether the poster is still active in this post, given that his last reply was last May.... page 3 of this thread and now we are in page 9....Sure, I'm here. All the ideas and issues I'm receiving from you are more than welcome. The ideas discussed here, other's learned during user meetings and also internal initiatives decide what gets built for later Archicad versions.
2021-04-14 12:00 PM
scraptrash wrote:
Will there be more developments in MEP capacity in the archicad roadmap?
We’ve thrown lots of ideas here and I’m actually eagerly waiting. We are working for contractors and have been using Archicad MEP for spatial coordination.
2021-04-14 01:54 PM
2021-04-17 06:57 AM
scraptrash wrote:This is a good description !
Balint wrote:I’d like to share that when you expand the capacity of archicad, you at the same time enabling a new type of service that can be provided by the users, (I'm an architect)
is when you are writing about an issue or an idea, please also classify what kind of work (Architect, MEP Engineer, etc.) you do.
E.g. You wouldn’t have expected ContraBIM would use archicad to provide QS services to contractor, instead of using CostX.
Why? Because graphisoft hasn’t realized the available quantity that can be extracted from Archicad models would be so dxmn good!
It beats Revit + CostX in every bit.
Same thing happens to MEP modeller.
Have you researched how bad and unusable are Revit MEP models? One obvious example is revit cannot handle large model. That means MEP models of a typical building could be split by trade AND floor.
But when MEP pipeworks are split by floors, the pipe works are disconnected. So if there’s still anyone saying that Revit can do design calculation, the first thing you can ask is have they split the MEP model? I keep seeing disconnected MEP routings in revit models.
My experience is I still haven’t heard any MEP engineer really make use of design calculation function in Revit.
That means people use Revit MEP for geometry only, which brings archicad to the same battle ground.
Some of our office projects actually work for contractor and we use archicad for spatial coordination. We need to model everything builder works, structure and MEP. We don’t need any calculations, just follow consultants design drawings. My experience is on architectural and structural elements, archicad is already very solid and flexible (but with so glitches some may say, but not deal breaker). But on MEP elements and MEP space zoning, archicad is still lacking. There are tons of excellent suggestions above.
But why do we do spatial coordination for contractor? Because the architects haven’t done their job well before they sent out the tender! And why architects haven’t done their coordination job well? Because architects do not have a good and easy to use tool for MEP modelling! AC should work on this context!
Some examples I encountered recently in how archicad MEP excels Revit MEP are:
- revit cannot report invert levels of pipe (I can’t believe that, unless you do in API), but AC can retrieve and label it with a bit of gdl. (https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=72530&p=324259&hilit=Invert+level#p324259 )
- revit does not divide pipes into preset lengths but AC can.
- Revit does not have trunking (people use Duct tool instead) but AC has. (Cable tray with cover.)
- Revit Equipment (eg AHU) does not appear in MEP system browser as connecting to 2 systems (supply and return system), but AC can show using schedule.
- revit pipeworks has no flow direction. Same as AC though.
I guess I’m only scratching the surface of how lacking is revit MEP doing MEP modelling since I’ve only been modelling MEP in AC for a month or so.
I really hope graphisoft won’t look down its mep modeller but should compete with revit on MEP geometry versatility and parameter richness. Also to develop connections to MEP calculation with third party software. (This one I’ve no knowledge)
2021-05-17 02:22 PM
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