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Design options

The Design options consist of design alternatives which, by always working on a single model, allow users to save a substantial amount of work.

For example, two or more proposals can be carried out simultaneously to show clients various alternatives. Therefore, Arquimedes’ new “Design options” tool allows users to only measure Revit entities which belong to the design options selected in the Revit model. This tool permits users to extract different quantities depending on the quantity options that have been created in the Revit model, to obtain different quantity values.

The button, in the “Job assignment and quantity extraction” dialogue box, allows users to access the “Design options” (if design options have been created in the Revit model) and select the group of design options to apply when extracting quantities to create the bill of quantities.

Quantity filters

Quantity filters allow users to obtain the quantities of job items that are only assigned to phases, categories, levels or assignments (entity–job item) of Revit and are to be measured. Two types of filters can be established:

Global filters (categories, phases and levels)
Global filters are created using the Quantity filters option in the drop-down menu that appears when the button of the “Job item assignment and quantity extraction” dialogue box is pressed.
Filters by assignment (entity – job item)
Filters by assignment allow users to obtain quantities only from elements that meet specific requirements. Filters created by assigning job items to entities are saved by categories. Filters of this type are created based on the element parameters.

Once a job item has been assigned to a Revit entity or vice-versa, filters can be carried out by assignments. If, for example, users wish to filter elements whose length is less than 12 m, they must first press the button and, in the “Select a filter to limit the elements to be measured” dialogue box, add the filter.

“Paint” material import

“Paint” has been added as a material to the Revit model. This way, quantities can be obtained using this Revit entity from the “Materials” tab of the “Assign job items and quantity extraction” dialogue box.

Quantity measurement by Sweeping

Since sub-categories can now be imported, length-type job items such as washboards, moulds, drains, etc, can be measured by sweeping.

Revit model sub-category import

As of the 2016.a version, sub-categories are included in the Revit model that is imported to Arquimedes. These appear at category level in the “Assign job items and quantity extraction” dialogue box in the “Revit entities” tab.

Improvements in the change tracking system

The change tracking system has been improved for the “Bill of quantities of Revit models” module.

When the “Update changes carried out in Revit, in Arquimedes” option is used (after a change in the Revit model that is already linked to the Arquimedes job), a dialogue box appears: “Update the changed carried out in the Revit model linked to this job” where the entities of the Revit model are marked with (entity not modified) (modified entity), (new entity) or (deleted entity).

By double clicking with the mouse button on a Revit entity (Type, Element, Material or Room) marked with the , symbol, a dialogue box will appear displaying the parameters that have changed in red.

If users press the “Accept” button in the “Update changes carried out in the Revit model linked to this job” dialogue box, the changes will be saved and another dialogue box will appear: “Assign job items and quantity extraction” to continue with the work. However, if users cancel the “Update changes carried out in the Revit model linked to this job” dialogue box without accepting the changes, no dialogue box will be displayed.

Quantity combinations for job items measured by number of units

Quantity combinations for job items measured by number of units can now be created using the “Bill of quantities of Revit models” module.

Bill of quantities of Revit models (new module)

The new Arquimedes module “Bill of quantities of Revit models” creates a direct connection between Arquimedes (CYPE) and Revit (AutoDesk) (2015 and later versions), and has been designed to obtain the quantities and generate the bill of quantities based on a Revit BIM model.

The module installs a CYPE plug-in in Revit. This allows users to work simultaneously in both programs (Arquimedes and Revit) or only in Arquimedes by importing the file generated by the CYPE complement in Revit, which contains the complete Revit model.

Its main features include:

Integration in the Revit workspace, simultaneous work with Revit and Arquimedes.
Complete reading of the Revit model information (Families, Categories, Types, Elements, system and user parameters, etc.).
Allows quantity measurements for elements, materials or rooms of the Revit model.
Several job items can be assigned to the same Type in Revit.
Several Revit jobs or projects can be linked to the same bill of quantities in Arquimedes using the BOQ consolidation module.
Quantities can be obtained in Arquimedes using an existing bill of quantities or by creating a new bill of quantities based on a BIM model.
Automatically assigns job items to elements of the BIM model using Keynotes.
Automatically detects the quantity units when assigning a job item to an element in the BIM model and allows users to change the combination of the dimensions used to obtain the quantities.
A controller identifies the Categories, Types and Elements that have changed following the extraction of the quantities and indicates, in the bill of quantities, the quantity lines obtained from the Revit model.
Different work methods are possible using the implemented tools.
Its versatility allows the module to work with different types of users; those who create the model in Revit and from it obtain a bill of quantities to use in Arquimedes, or for users who only create the model from which a file will be created to be exported, or users who will use the exported file from Revit, to then obtain the bill of quantities in Arquimedes by importing it.

Detailed information on the properties of this new Arquimedes module can be found on the Bill of quantities of Revit models webpage.

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