REVIT FILES FOR MITEK NZ DETAILS UPDATE
REVIT FILES FOR MITEK NZ DETAILS SOFTWARE

And if there are any tweaks or changes - they have to be processed all the way down the line so it all keeps working.īut in 'Lean production' this is an example of one of the 7 primary wastes, in this case 'Over-Processing' - using a sledgehammer to pound in a carpet tack. That's the dream.Īnd a version of that actually IS possible - but in reality it's a ton of programming, a ton of man-hours, and no ROI whatsoever unless you're going to build 200 of the same model/option. As if a sales greeter could fire it up in the design center and have photo-realistic walkthroughs in their hollodeck, have the working drawings pop out in the field and the purchase orders pop out of the accounting office with no other intervention. There are a couple of companies out there advertising 'BIM for Builders' and their marketing materials make it look like a two-click process to generate both 3Ds/BOM, and working drawings for a complicated model/option catalog. getting there is going to require an enormous effort. Moving to a different platform.(Autodesk-whatever-plus-BIM-whatever) I'm not going to dis ReVit or Arch DT - the Autodesk stuff can be very capable. let me add a few (hundred) words about BIM in general and the reality of the situation that might help some other readers put things in some perspective. But this illustrates how very difficult so-called 'BIM' (Building Information Modeling) really is to execute. If you just mean literally stacking like an option that encompasses multiple floors in the 'Stack' (SP's terminology for the model) - I haven't had any problems with that. If you mean NESTING - like an option of an option with a lot of IF/THEN - that could very possibly be beyond its capability. I haven't had any problem with SoftPlan's 'Building Options' in terms of stacking but we may be talking about two different things. I'm going to be talking with SP on Thurs - I'll find out and post back.īTW - SoftPlan 20 do now do a true round-trip with AutoCAD with very good results. DXF or similar and bring them into SoftPlan that way. You could also export from Sapphire as a.

What people are doing is either using the built-in roof/ceiling/framing tools to approximate the truss shapes - or modeling the actual truss shape in SketchUp, importing the SU model as a SoftPlan 'Symbol' - and writing BOM formulas to pick that up and report on it. MXF but I don't think that's possible yet. It would be great if the actual truss design drawings and 3D models generated in MiTek came back via. OTOH - MiTek is best-of-breed for truss design IMO. It'll show some very generic truss shapes but nothing unusual, and no engineering on any of it. This approach makes a lot of sense because SoftPlan really doesn't have a true truss design module. and also the layout and quantity (depending on which pieces of the MiTek Sapphire Suite were installed). The MiTek operator would then design the 'real' trusses/panels/etc. Sapphire picks up the file which would have all the project info (Name, Address, etc.) as well as the appropriate roof/wall/floor geometry.

REVIT FILES FOR MITEK NZ DETAILS UPDATE

It seems to be in use everyplace I go.Īs far as what a SoftPlan-Sapphire hook-up looks like, SoftPlan exports a valid MiTek 'MiTek Exchange File' (.MXF) at the project level and as far as I know (I will update this info tomorrow if incorrect) - it's a one-way push TO Sapphire.

REVIT FILES FOR MITEK NZ DETAILS SOFTWARE

I don't know actual numbers but my gut is that MiTek is probably the market leader in truss design software and also actual products. They were spending a huge amount of time re-drawing in MiTek what Paul(and others) thought might already be drawn by the builders - but they didn't have any access to the data. What they wanted to accomplish was to make it much easier for their MiTek truss plant and lumberyards to get design data in from the builders etc they were servicing.

I basically just helped them survey the various companies out there in the residential space, Softplan of course being one, who were round one integration possibilities. I was working with their VP of product dev Paul Pinsky at the very beginning of the process a few years ago - unfortunately he retired, so at that point I was out of the loop. Mitek has been pretty aggressive at reaching out to other software vendors, but the degree of 'integration' they've cooked up is all over the map. Here's what I know - probably not much -)

Revit files for mitek nz details