A joint presentation by Tekla and Trimble at this week’s Trimble Dimensions conference continues to provide inspiration. The Tekla Building Information Modeling software provides a rich and highly detailed modeling environment, with extremely detailed features and a very small and manageable file size. With Tekla, the model becomes the basis for all 2D drawings, with extractions of drawing information more like a print screen option rather than a 2D interface from the 3D model.
The tools within Tekla Structures software also provide a means to mark points in the drawing and directly export the data into Trimble field layout solutions. The automated means for bringing this data into the field could even serve to bypass paper plans completely, as all the data is visible via the Trimble field layout solution. This software, viewable on Trimble’s rugged handhelds and tablets, guides the marking of points on the construction site, even managing and flagging the accuracy of the layout if it falls outside the design tolerance.
Seeing this BIM to field solution, with demonstrations in the room of how points within the drawing are plotted on the ground, helped illustrate the utility of BIM in the construction process. Much of Tekla’s output goes direct to steel fabricators or precast concrete fabricators that both bring finished components to the job site for assembly. You can imagine that the need for accurate layout in these cases is imperative, and the BIM to field solution ensures this accuracy in an efficient and seamless workflow.
This BIM to the field workflow provided one of the more compelling demonstrations of the power of BIM to assure accuracy, and remove costly and frustrating assembly errors in the field.
Here’s a video to give you a sense of the BIM to field layout process.
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Nice explanation of the cause, Matt. I also covered the subject in my blog in November at http://www.bimsight.com/bim-to-field/
World of Concrete is currently happening in Vegas. Will be nice to see what more is shown there.
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