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Arquimedes

The 2019.d version of Arquimedes allows users to configure the view of the “Job item assignment and quantity extraction” panel, to help them with the Revit model connection process in accordance with its preferences or types of monitors.

To access the configuration of the Revit links editor, the button New modules and programs. CYPEPLUMBING Water systems. Click to enlarge the image must be selected (quantity extraction) that is present in the Decomposition tree window, and choose the “Configure Revit links editor” option.

Users can choose amongst 4 types of views:

  • Automatic
    This is the option that is active by default. With it, the data distribution that will be shown in the “Job item assignment and quantity extraction” panel will depend on the type of format of the monitor that is being used (width to height ratio).
  • Panoramic
  • Classic
  • Personalised
    Using this type of view, users decide how to distribute the data of the “Job item assignment and quantity extraction” panel.

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  • 2019.d

Since previous versions, Arquimedes carries out automatic backups every so often (users can configure this period in File > Preferences > Auto-save time), or when specific processes are carried out (change of currency, price increases, budget adjustment...). As of the 2019.d version, users can configure the automatic backup procedure of these processes.

To do so, the “Automatic backup configuration” panel has been created: File > Preferences > Automatic backup configuration. Users can also use the “Automatic copies” button of the “Processes > Safety copies of the database” menu.

In the new panel (Automatic backup configuration), the options that can be configured for each process are:

  • Always create a backup
  • Do not create a backup
  • Ask before creating a backup

The maximum number of backup copies that are to be kept can also be indicated in the same panel.

The way in which the automatic backups are configured is important, especially, when the database contains a lot of information because each backup can take up a significant amount of space in the storage device.

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  • 2019.d

Under certain conditions, the Arquimedes module: "Automatic quantity import from drawings and link with CAD programs" caused an error when the quantities had been exported from the CAD program. If, in the dialogue where the error text appeared, the "Exit" option was selected, users could import the measurements that had been carried out in the CAD program in Arquimedes without any problem. This error no longer appears in the 2019.c version.

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  • 2019.c

As of the 2019.b version, “Arquimedes” and “Arquimedes and job control” can be connected to a BIM model that is located on the BIMserver.center platform to export the following project information, if it is included in the program:

  • Quality control program
  • Construction and demolition waste analysis
  • Life cycle analysis
  • Project specifications
  • Quantities
  • Bill of quantities

This information can be imported by the CYPE Memorias CTE program, which will use it to complete the corresponding section of the project documentation.

To do so, a new option has been included in "Arquimedes", and "Arquimedes and Job control": "Export documents to BIMserver.center" (File > Export), which opens a panel with the same name. In this panel, the user can choose the BIM project to which the information is to be exported (from amongst the projects in which the user participates) or to create a new BIM project.

In the start screen of Arquimedes (implemented in version 2019.a), there is also a new section that allows users to connect or disconnect from the BIMserver.center platform or access it using the Web browser used by users.

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  • 2019.b

To help with the introduction and visualisation of job control data, the following buttons have been provided in the Job control toolbar:

  •  Purchase groups
    Allows users to create or access supplier groups. Using this tool, users can more easily offer requests, price offers, and hence, elect contracts to be carried out.
  • Job supplies
    Displays a list with all the unit items that have been used in the projects and allows users to organise them into purchase groups to be able to generate purchase comparatives and contracts more easily.
  • Contract supplies
    Allows users to select the job supplies that are to be contracted and to prepare the required comparatives to decide which supplier the purchase is to be assigned.
  • Purchase comparatives
    Shows all the price comparatives that have been defined in the project and allows users to generate the contracts of the supplies that have yet to be contracted.
  • Generate contracts
    Allows the program to run through all the purchase comparatives to locate all the supplies that have yet to be contracted and have an assigned supplier, to propose which contracts have to be generated.
  • Job contracts
    Displays a list containing all the existing contracts of the current project.

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  • 2019.a

In the 2019.a version of Arquimedes, users can choose between two window view systems (Classic system and System based on tabs). Either system can be activated using the “Windows systems” option of the “Window” menu:

  • Classic system
    This is the window viewing system that was available as of previous versions. Users can organise the views and windows of the open databases in “Cascade”, “Horizontal mosaic” and “Vertical mosaic”.

  • System based on tabs
    If this option is activated, a window with several tabs, which correspond to the views of the databases that are open, is displayed.

    Different groups of windows can be organised (“Vertical groups”, “Horizontal groups” or “Floating widows) with one or several tabs. This organisation can be done from:


    • The “Window” menu

    • The contextual menu of each tab
      This menu drops down by pressing the arrow that appears when the mouse cursor is placed on a tab.

    • Manually
      By dragging each tab to the desired position. Whilst the tab is being dragged, it is translucent and displays a blurred diagram so users can place the new tab in a new window, next to the one from which it came from (above, below to the left or to the right).

The view system based on tabs is helpful for users to organise the views and windows of the open databases. Furthermore, the floating windows of the view system can be moved freely, even to other monitors user may have for the same machine.

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  • 2019.a

As of the 2019.a version, when Arquimedes is launched, a presentation window is displayed where users can select the bill of quantities, price bank, work area or example that is to be opened. This way, databases (bill of quantities or price banks) are more easily opened, or work areas more easily loaded.

The presentation window appears if no databases were open when Arquimedes was closed in the previous session.

This window shows the sections, which display the information of the bills of quantities, price banks, work areas or examples that are available.

Several databases can be selected at the same time from the same section. To open the selected databases or work areas, simply click the “Enter” key of the keyboard.

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  • 2019.a

As of the 2018.l version of CYPE, the complements that have been developed for Revit (“Open BIM complement” and “Bill of quantities of Revit models”) are compatible with the 2019 version of Revit.

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  • 2018.l

To ease the creation process of an offer, new columns have been added: “Offer preparation 2” which can be used by pressing the right mouse button on the orange column headers of the “Decomposition tree” window. This new column presentation allows users to work with “Bill of quantities” and “Sales budget” price structures.

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  • 2018.k

The option “Establish the nature of auxiliary prices depending on their decomposition” (Show > Configuration > Treatment of auxiliary prices) has been implemented, which allows for auxiliary prices that are composed exclusively of unit prices of the same nature (Labour, Machinery or Materials), take on that nature. Logically, these auxiliary prices can also include “Auxiliary measures”-type concepts (%-type concepts). This option establishes the nature condition of the auxiliary prices that comply with the condition, discriminating amongst the three nature types (Labour, Machinery or Materials).

Once this option has been activated, the affected auxiliary prices are recognised in the bill of quantities with the following icons:

  •  for labour auxiliary prices
  •  for machinery auxiliary prices
  •  for materials auxiliary prices

For example, in the image, the auxiliary price “Cuadrilla A” (Work group A), which is only composed of “Labour”-type unit items, can be recognised as a “Labour”-type unit price even though it has a decomposition.

Additionally, the possibility to show auxiliary prices of those which have been assigned a “Labour”, “Machinery” or “Materials” nature has been added in the “Auxiliary prices” option in the List menu of the Concept list window.

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  • 2018.e

A new report template has been implemented: “Budget deviation in job items (theoretical quantity)” (pl_cb007c.pla), located in the “Job control” category. In this template, the theoretical quantity can be compared to the executed quantity and the reference price to the average execution price in unit items. This way, the price deviation, between the reference price in the job control and the execution price can be seen.

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  • 2018.c

If Key notes are defined in the Revit model, with job item codes (in order to assign a type of the Revit model to the job item), the program will ask for the copy origin of inexistent job items and chapters, the first time the Revit model is linked to an Arquimedes project. This way, once the Revit model has been imported, the Types that contain a Key note that can be located in the Arquimedes project (or in the referenced database or database associated to Arquimedes) will be assigned to the job item that is indicated in the Key note.

The button Job item assignment by key notes  allows users to assign a Type of the Revit model that has been defined in a Key note to a job item, if linking process has already been carried out between the Revit model and the Arquimedes project.

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  • 2018.c