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Arquimedes

The "Global elements filters" option ( button in the "Assign items and quantity extraction" window > "Global quantities filter" > "Global elements filters" button) has been added. Using it, users can filter out elements that they wish to measure and that meet certain conditions. In this way, a partial cost estimation can be obtained with only the filtered quantity lines.

The "Items that are used in several work sections" option ("List" menu > "Other concepts" > "Items that are used in several work sections") has been added. This option allows users to identify items that are used in more than one work section. Furthermore, the item is identified by the icon.

The "Bill of quantities simulation with assigned items" tool ( option button in the "Assign items and quantity extraction" window) has been implemented. With this, it is possible to have several bill of quantities configurations to, for instance, carry out an analysis of partial bills of quantities. Each bill of quantities configuration can use any parameter of the job and property customised by the user. These parameters act as work sections levels for creating the bill of quantities.

This way, the main bill of quantities in Arquimedes can be divided depending on the values of a parameter or a custom feature. For example, the cost estimations of the different phases of a project or groups of projects can be obtained.

The "Bill of quantities simulation with assigned items" tool only works with items assigned to Revit entities.

The contents of the "Bill of quantities simulation with assigned items" window can be copied and pasted into a spreadsheet. To copy it, right-click on the column header and choose the corresponding option.

To give a more versatile approach to the "Rooms" category, it can now be used as any Category without Types. That is, new Subtypes (collections of elements) can be added to it.

 

Visible column configuration in elements using materials has been improved, now each material can have its own visible column configuration.

To get more out of extracting quantities from the Revit BIM model, Customised properties are created. Custom properties are similar to Revit’s project parameters, but can be created and edited by Arquimedes users and are applied to all categories. These custom properties can be applied to types or elements. This new tool can be accessed from the options button  in the Assign items and quantity extraction window.

The definition of Customised properties can be shared between different linked Revit projects within the same Arquimedes project (but not their values).

Customised properties can be used:

  • In combinations to obtain quantity details.
  • In quantity filters.
  • In subtype discriminators.

Customised properties can be displayed and their values edited in:

  • The element list columns.
  • The Type and Element properties window.
  • Categories without Types
    Subtypes can now be defined in Categories without Types. Previously, all the elements could only be assigned to one item, but now, in addition, each one of the subtypes can be assigned to a different item.
  • Categories with Types
    Previously, in the categories with types, items could only be assigned to the subtypes or to the type (all elements). Now, items can be assigned to a type and a subtype.

Options for creating subtypes can be activated from the options button  in the Assign items and quantity extraction window, in the Global quantities filter option.

Now, in the quantities by material filters, the parameters of the elements using that material can be used. In previous versions, only the common system parameters (Revit) could be used.

When users exit the Assign items and quantity extraction window, the layout status of their mobile panels is saved.

A new dialogue box has been added to manage all defined filters. In this dialogue box, users can now:

  • View entity-job item assignments using the selected filter.
  • Create and edit filters or even delete those not being used.
  • Enable, disable, and remove previously defined filters.

Occasionally, the rooms defined in the Revit BIM model do not have a defined area. To only measure rooms without a defined area, the "Measure rooms without a defined area" filter has been added. This filter can be accessed from the Global quantities filter option from the "General options" button   in the Assign items and quantity extraction window.

Another display state has been added to the list of elements in the Assign items and quantity extraction dialogue box. When clicking on the header of the quantity details table or on the header of the elements table, the displayed tables can be toggled.

  • In the Arquimedes workflow (green zone states), three tables or display states are toggled if the item is assigned to an entity:
    1. Quantity details of the entity’s elements
      Any existing filters are taken into account.
    2. List of the entity’s elements
      Possible filters are not applied.
    3. List of elements of the entity selected in Revit’s entities
      New display state of the list of elements.

  • If the item is not assigned to an entity it will display the equivalent of the "3" state.
  • In the Revit workflow (blue zone states) two states are toggled if the item is assigned to an entity:
    1. Quantity details of the entity’s elements
      Any existing filters are taken into account.
    2. List of the entity’s elements
      Possible filters are not applied.

  • If the entity is not assigned to an item, it will display the equivalent of the "2" state.

The status can be changed successively by clicking on the header.