Archicad for generating technical drawings of prefab walls

[Anonymous]

Hi.

I'm an archicad user for quite a while now. Recently the company I work with started looking for software for semi-automatical creating technical drawings of walls. Those drawings are required for building prefabricated walls using special machine (and apply the correct amount of mortar, etc.)

So the software would have to:
1. Read 3d model of every wall (obviously ac can do that)
2. Divide walls into transportable parts
2. Calculate the best usage of building material (bricks, concrete blocks, etc.)
3. Apply lintels (standard and non-standard)
3. Divide wall into those elements
4. Give the output of technical drawing of every wall (plan, vertical view, summary of materials) in DWGs.

Of course not all of those actions has to be automatical.
The most important is the 2nd and 4th point.

Can archicad help me with this?
I hope i made myself clear becouse i have the habit of explaining easy things in the most complicated way possible 😉

Here you can see the example of the output:
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/859/14964959.jpg/
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/600/87233572.jpg/

p.s. I'm AC14 user.

[Ignacio Azpiazu]

There is a consultant (I think they are ArchiCAD dealers too) in Canada (perhpas Toronto) that have created an impressive system for doing something very similar for some other system of prefab walls. Out of an ArchiCAD very simple model, the system spits out extremely elaborate individual wall drawings and schedules, resolving wall structure, opeinings, fixings, etc.

I can't remember their name right now but maybe somebody reading this will.

[Aaron Bourgoin]

Pal Szabo at GSCNE is your man. (905) 274-5534.

[Anonymous]

M.A.D. also has Archilogs, which does exactly that for log houses. They should know what it would take to do that for prefab walls.
http://www.mad.fi/mad/logs.html