ArCADia BIM 14 – Upgrade ArCADiasoft

Basic Tools

• Introducing network licenses
• Changes in the program installation, from now on libraries of surfaces and 3D objects are downloaded as separate installations, the user can decide whether to download them or not
• New version of dynamic coordinate input and a setup window for dynamic input
• Introduced a new level of detail mainly used for installation elements
• Changes in creating a level view to facilitate the drawing of installations
• Expanded element description options
• Option of inserting system objects (devices, fittings) with a user-defined 3D view (based on .dwg .3Ds, .obj., .O2c, .rvt and .rfa files). The element defined in this way can be connected to the installation being designed in the program through the function of editing the location of connectors
• Tutorial videos available at command icons
• Animated object library, sun animation and scene cloud cover selection, saving project tour in the mp4 format
• PBR texture library
• Smart TOP 10 – a smart list of the most often used commands that are automatically memorized when working on a project, creating a personalized tool palette
• Project Manager tree – managing views and the displayed information through the clear tree of the Project Manager
• Walls, windows, doors – inserting elements such as wall, pipe, etc. using the smart tracking function
• Visualization – Showing elements drawn in the view in a classic or the new 3D view rendered in real time (visualization using a 3D game engine)
• Library – Built-in library that allows for detailing with 2D symbols and 3D objects needed in the drawing
• Comparing – The possibility to compare two versions of a project created as an ArCADia system model in the scope of new and modified system elements
• Merging – The possibility to merge the building model from an architectural design with the installation design models to create one complete model of a building project
• Collision – Collisions list of all or individual ArCADia system elements on a view, 3D view and a clear list
• Dimensioning – Possibility of entering linear and angular dimensioning
• Title blocks – Creating and inserting title blocks with the option of saving them to the program library
• Custom setting – Saving custom settings for elements (pens, fonts, default element sizes, etc.) in the project template
• Elements – Built-in library of all element types, with the possibility of expansion

Architecture

• Choice of defined or drawing any multilayer wall
• Built-in catalogue of construction materials
• Insert window and door woodwork in a parametric way
• Insert single chimney openings or shafts
• Create rooms from the closed outlines of walls and virtual walls
• Define one- and multi-flight stairs and winder stairs
• Insert ceilings and roof on the closed external walls contour
• Create a level and copy selected elements
• Insert roof windows and dormer windows

Water supply installations 

• Create drawings of the internal water supply system | connection point | water meter set | pipelines
• Apply risers and distribution pipes from a library
• Insert fittings and devices from the manufacturers’ library
• Automatic generation of connection fittings, creation of point numbering and installation description. Create own templates
• Check the installation for connections correctness
• Generating ready-made materials lists, devices and connection fittings included in the project

Sewage Installations

• 3D installation preview, which facilitates the correcting of irregularities in the pipeline route not shown on the view
• Generate ready-made materials lists, devices and connection fittings included in the project
• Enter the pipeline route of the sewage system with a given slope on the view
• Pipelines with automatic distinction between outflow channels, risers and connecting pipes for accessories
• Automatic generation of sets of connection fittings. Changing many elements of the installation at the same time
• Check the installation for connection correctness

Gas Installations 

• Create drawings of the internal gas installation
• Automatic generation of a set of connection fittings
• Ready-made lists of materials and lists of elements
• Fittings and devices from the manufacturers’ library
• Possibility to easily and quickly enter additional databases to the main library
• Check the installation for connection correctness

Heating Installations 

• Ready-made materials lists, devices and connection fittings. Lists of receivers in rooms
• Heat receivers, i.e. panel, ribbed, bathroom and channel heaters, heating pipes, air heaters and fan-coil units
• Fittings and devices from the manufacturer’s library
• Automatic creation of point numbering and installation descriptions. Creating own templates
• Inserting the fastening with the possibility of defining parameters characteristic for the fastening used
• Checking the installation for connection correctness

Ventilation Systems

• Creating drawings of the internal ventilation system – from intake/exhaust elements, through ventilation devices (fans, heaters, fire dampers, etc.), to the end elements of the installation in the form of air inlets and outlets
• Inserting duct elements and fittings (made of various materials) with round, rectangular and oval cross-sections. Inserting ventilation devices from the manufacturers’ library with the option of adding your own objects
• Preview of the installation in 3D view, which facilitates the correction of irregularities in the route of the ducts not shown on the plan
• Possibility to define any number of ventilation systems used in the project and their properties, including air parameters (in terms of temperature and relative humidity)
• Preparation of the ventilation flow and usage report based on the object architecture (or user-defined rooms). User-assumed required flow values ventilation air may remain automatically assigned and updated in air supply elements /located in the rooms’ data
• Saving layouts made of many elements, e.g. part of the installation, to the program library, in order to reuse it. Creating descriptions and saving your own annotation templates
• Generating lists of materials and devices included in the project, intended for further processing and for the creation of cost estimates and investment valuations

Electrical installations 

• Drawing of internal electrical installations with distribution boards, sockets, connectors, boxes, lighting fixtures.
• Designation of cable routes
• An extensive library of manufacturers’ catalogues of electrical installation elements
• Possibility to assign receivers to a particular distribution board (addressing)
• Possibility to modify symbols of entered objects and assign receivers to a particular distribution board
• Generating a list of materials used in the project

Communication

• Reading and saving drawings in the AutoCAD format
• Importing and editing raster images
• Import and export PDF files
• Expand the library of 2D / 3D objects with XOBJECT, ACO, O2C, OBJ, XOBJ3D and DWG.
• IFC file conversion
• Export of material lists to RTF, CSV and to the Ceninwest program

Construction

• Constructing the structural systems of Teriva ribbed-beam roofs, containing all the basic elements of the system: ceiling beams, reinforcing ribs, hidden ribs, trimmer beams, supporting mesh and additionally all necessary material lists including the elements needed to make the ceiling, completed with reinforcing steel and monolithic concrete.
• Inserting the binding joist with the insertion of longitudinal reinforcement and stirrups
• Transferring the location and the material as well as the bar cross-section to the construction view. Passing the remaining elements of the architectural model in the form of a rendered or translucent 3D view, and in the case of modular axes, bar elements and surface elements also in the form of their active underlay
• Automatic 3D construction view created on the basis of a three-dimensional architectural model of a building