Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Space Frame Structure

 

How to model a curtain panel roof on the space frame structure like above?

First of all, based on the "Metric Curtain Panel Pattern Based.rft", create an adaptive family under Curtain Panels family category.
Then, create a Model In-Place family under the Mass family category for the required roof shape. 
Choose the required surface of the Mass and apply the Pattern as the divided surface before you replaced with the loaded Adaptive Curtain Panel family.
The rigid frame of the roof can be modelled with the Model In-Place with sweep.
The rigid panel can be modelled with the Structural Beam Systems and perimeter framing and support framing can be modelled with the Structural Trusses. The mast modelling may need void form mass.
After adjusting the size and visibility control of the panel and members instance parameters of each adaptive curtain panel family  the completed Curtain Panel roof with space frame structure are shown below.


Cheers!













Wednesday, September 27, 2023

CORENET X IMPLEMENTATION PLAN, IFC-SG REQUIREMENTS & CODE OF PRACTICE

 BCA has released the CORENET X Implementation Plan together with the CORENET X Code of Practice (COP) where the IFC-SG requirements are defined in details.

The industry was informed the phased onboarding of new projects and existing onto CORENET X to make the necessary plans and preparation well ahead of the implementation dates. 

The summary of the key dates and requirements are shown below.







The Code of Practice ( COP) is intended to help industry practitioners in understanding how to prepare multi-agency regulatory submissions across the key submission gateways in CORENET X.

The Code of Practice includes recommended procedures and good practices to address common Building Information Modelling (BIM) issues at general project collaboration level (e g multi disciplinary project set up, geo referencing) and specific details that vary from firm to firm today.

This Code of Practice complements the IFC SG Resource Kit (https://go.gov.sg/ifcsg), which provides technical templates and help resources from key proprietary BIM software for the generation of IFC SG models.

To ensure the regulatory information can be captured and exported to IFC, the information must first be incorporated in the BIM model and exported to IFC.

IFC allows for customization of properties and object types to the existing IFC entities. While most regulatory information will be represented in existing international IFC standards, some "localization" will need to be carried out to capture selected information unique to the Singapore context.







This localized IFC data model that is developed based on the IFC standard to address local regulatory needs is termed as IFC-SG.

In collaboration with BCA, Autodesk has launched a new IFC-SG interoperability tools which will help industry professional populate and export IFC-SG more easily in Revit.


Below are the videos detailing on how to use the IFC-SG tools and content for Revit.