Nemetschek Allplan 2024.0.0 with CDS Bausoftware Add-Ons

In today's AEC projects, the fusion of data from Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is paramount, involving existing terrain and surrounding buildings. Architects, engineers, and construction experts must seamlessly integrate designs into their environments. Allplan 2024 introduces a cloud-powered GIS connector, powered by 3DCityLoader services, facilitating effortless extraction of essential data from various open GIS platforms. This tool empowers users to import terrain data, building contours, and street layouts directly into Allplan, enhancing contextual design precision.

Architects demand swift and intuitive tools for building envelope design and experimentation. Allplan's enhanced façade module streamlines the process, utilizing predefined window/door parametric components for quicker façade creation and adjustments. This advancement accelerates incorporation of opening elements into façade design while offering optimized performance and expanded functionality, enabling architects to conceive and adapt façades with enhanced speed, flexibility, and ease.

The new Content Connector in Allplan 2024revolutionizes the process of importing external 3D assets and materials, saving time for architects and consultants. Allplan's web-based workflow integrates with external providers like mtextur and 3D Warehouse, accelerating content import and customization. This enhancement streamlines tasks related to content, boosting productivity for architects and multi-disciplinary consultants.

The new Twinmotion Direct Link simplifies the exchange between Allplan and Twinmotion, allowing real-time synchronization with a click. Architects benefit from Twinmotion's realistic environment display, high-quality assets, and tools for storytelling and VR experiences. This feature empowers dynamic decision-making throughout the design process, enabling architects to visualize their projects efficiently and effectively.

For the first time, Allplan 2024 integrates the robust SDS2 steel connection engine, streamlining the modeling of standardized steel connections. Integrated checks ensure that connections are fabricable and erectable during the design phase. This approach ensures compatibility with connection modeling and design solutions, enabling architects, engineers, consultants, and contractors to provide precise project tenders.

Allplan 2024 enhances fixture administration, crucial for precast designers dealing with a multitude of precast elements requiring specific fixtures. The software streamlines fixture management, simplifying planning, invoicing, and production tasks. Addressing the scarcity of skilled workers in precast production, Allplan 2024 extends automation to mesh welding systems, considering concrete cover in joint profiles for accurate, accelerated, and error-free reinforcement workflows.

In an industry where error-free designs are non-negotiable, clash detection is indispensable. Allplan 2024 introduces seamless, end-to-end clash detection within a single software environment. By categorizing and color-coding collision types – Hard Clash, Soft Clash, Workflow Clash, and No Clash – the software provides an easy-to-use overview for quick, clear, and efficient collision checking and identification.

Allplan 2024 also introduces a Technical Preview of the BIMcollab Plugin, streamlining issue management in BIM projects. Users can now seamlessly connect to their BIMcollab project from Allplan, creating and editing issues directly within the software without the need for BCF import/export. This integration enhances workflow efficiency, saving time and ensuring consistency in the BIM process.

In response to the construction industry's evolving demands, Allplan 2024 offers enhanced capabilities for BIM road models. The new version enables segmentation of road models into logical sections, facilitating attribute assignment to roadway elements and preparing the model for export in the OPEN BIM IFC 4.3 format. This ensures uniform model data structure and comprehensive interdisciplinary collaboration, streamlining information exchange with design partners. Furthermore, ALLPLAN's commitment to improved BIM workflows extends to infrastructure projects. The software now supports the import of IFC 4.3 files for bridges, roads, and rails from third-party software.

The latest version of Allplan introduces a new solution for the parametric modeling of road intersections, enhancing the creation of T and X intersections. This feature enables effortless adjustment of intersection point positions and turning geometries due to its parametric approach. The derived cross-section and site plan of the intersection area are seamlessly integrated, streamlining the process and offering significant time savings, improved user-friendliness, and minimized error sources during geometry changes.

Allplan 2024 empowers civil engineers to design the excavation and shoring elements in detail upfront to determine their feasibility. Detailed 3D models, inclusive of GPS-controlled excavator data, cater to contractors' needs, while execution plan creators can meticulously model earthwork elements. Flexibility to modify the model even in later construction phases enhances project adaptability, complemented by improvements in bored pile walls, soldier pile walls, and ground anchors.

Furthermore, the new version introduces a formwork planning tool add on BIM²form, that streamlines the assignment of formwork or cast-in-place wall components. Currently compatible with the Meva Mammut 350 formwork system from MEVA, the tool eliminates the need for outsourcing formwork planning to external providers, saving costs and enhancing project control. This feature empowers users to efficiently plan with formwork systems from various manufacturers, presenting a cost-effective solution compared to outsourcing expenses.

General
- The finding of incorrect data with the Allplan Quality Manager has been improved.
- Improvements in data healing, which is selected from the 'File' menu.
- Mouse wheel zoom in/out, projection, view types and navigation mode for the preview of documents in ProjectPilot.
- Preview of resources in ProjectPilot.
- Drawing files, filesets and layouts can no longer be moved or copied to the external path in ProjectPilot.
- NDW files can no longer be imported in ProjectPilot.
- Export of authorized project users in CSV format in the 'Project and Resource Management'.
- Permission for editing the building structure by users can be set.
- Takeover of other properties from wizards and change of wizard possible while tool is open.
- New structure of content inside the surface library with updated previews.
- New unit of length 'US Survey Feet'. Can be set in the options and the dimension line parameters.
- The profile catalog is localized when downloading from Bimplus.
- Correct adaptation of the text leader in the layout editor in case of different scales in the plan element.
- Elipse as a new type of border for labeling the axes in the axis grid.
- Size of the layout window can be changed via handles and via the 'Modify Offset' tool.
- New BIMCollab plugin (Technical preview).
Allplan Share
- Stability improvements.
Interfaces
- New GIS Connector in the 'Teamwork' task area to get GIS data (terrain, buildings, contours) from openGIS providers.
- New Content Connector in the 'Teamwork' task area for accelerated download of content (surfaces, 3d objects) from mtextur and 3dWarehouse.
- Referencing IFC files when inserting custom XRefs.
- Xplan: Support landscape and urban planing.
- New archiving format and optional export of room geometry during PDF export.
- IFC 4.3 import for Infrastructure and Construction segment.
User interface
- New file 'Open' & 'Save' dialog.
- New unified progress bar.
- New appearence of the global and local coordinate system.
- Rearrangement of the tools in the 'File' menu.
- Fly mode separately selectable.
Objects Palette
- Saving of the color coding in the favorites.
- Extended custom sorting on up to 6 attributes.
- Accelerated object palette for handling complex building models (UI & data handling).
Attributes
- Advanced attribute sets for addressing all IFC entities and predefined types.
- Update attributes used in another project.
- Structured containers: Attributes and labels permanently added to sub-objects.
- Attribute addressing by UUID for cross-project use of newly created labels, formulas, attribute sets and reports that use user attributes.
Analyses
- Associative architectural legends regardless of the state of the loaded model. Rooms and finishes are also taken into account.
- Graphical display of curved objects (general 3D elements) in reports and legends.
- Date and time format in reports taken from the Window settings.
Displaying and visualizing the model
- 'Ambient Occlusion' available for view types that use the RT_Render rendering method.
- Direct connection to Twinmotion for real-time visualization.
- Faster renderings with Maxon's Redshift renderer.
Views and Sections
- Extended labeling options.
- Multimodification for section bodies.
- Improvements for Precast workflows including the introduction of a local coordinate system.
- Labeling of the axis grid always correctly readable according to the setting in the options.
Structural framing
- Automated connections for structural framing objects that were created with profiles from the Nemetschek Profile Catalog.
- Creation of inclined structural framing columns.
- Connection of structural framing objects with the 'Join Linear Components' tool. The object is always adapted to the min-max box of the other object.
- Use dual profiles that can be downloaded from Bimplus.
- New label for structural framing objects.
- Display of the local coordinate system at the ends of the structural framing objects.
- Modify the distance between the anchor point and element point via handles.
Architecture
- New user interface of the facade tool with the possibility to use door/window SmartParts as facade components.
- New parametric SmartParts in the Allplan standard library.
- Improved Folding and Sliding Door SmartParts.
- 'Create wall openings' and 'Create slab openings' tools usable in circular/spline components and foundations.
- Direct object modification for architectural components (slab, foundation slab, recess/niche, corner window).
- Correct creation of openings, recesses and niches in circular/spline components.
- Correct representation of area elements (pattern, style area) in circle/spline components.
- Facing also possible at the bottom.
- Individual surface display for facings can be assigned directly.
- Correct connections between circular and straight architectural components (single-layer components).
Reinforcement
- Well-known workflows from reinforcement views also possible in views and sections.
- PythonParts Examples for the 'Extrude Bars Along Path' and 'Sweep Bars Along Path' tools in the Etc folder.
- Labeling of attributes as 'Custom text'.
- Taking into account the factor set in the options for the diameter for collision control of bar reinforcement.
- Better collision control between different objects, such as bars and fixtures.
- New entries 'Bar reinforcement' and 'Mesh reinforcement' in the 'Element Filter'.
- Edit reinforcement in an isometric view or in the animation window.
- Automated Reinforcement: New tool for creating the reinforcement required to connect two walls.
- Automated Reinforcement: Improvements for automatic column and wall reinforcement.
Precast Applications & Components
- Fixtures as single elements in the library.
- Handles for fixtures.
- Automatic rotation for fixtures.
- Use of imperial units in multiple precast catalogs possible.
- New user interface for Precast Element, MSA Reinforcement Group and Assembly Group.
- Improvements Object Tree for Precast Objects.
Construction
- New formwork planning for walls.
- New excavation pit modeler for groundwork planning.
- Takeover of a path for the axis input of bored pile and soldier pile walls.
- Dimension lines for bored pile and soldier pile walls.
- Height connection of bored pile and soldier pile walls to standard planes.
- Reports for bored pile and soldier pile walls.
- Connection of existing soldier pile walls with infills.
- Creation of a 3D body to be used as a drilling template for bored pile walls.
- Reinforcement for bored pile walls.
- Linear placement of an existing ground anchor.
- Change the numbering of selected ground anchors.
- Transfer selected parameters of a ground anchor.
Allplan Road
- Modelling and drawing output of parametric road intersections.
- IFC data preperation - preservation of attributes after model update.
Visual Scripting
- Visual grouping of multiple nodes.
- Deactivation of nodes.
- Evaluation of multiple branches.
- New tooltip for nodes in the library and on the canvas.
- Simplified display at lower zoom level.
- Searching for existing nodes and groups.
- Place VS-PythonPart with mouse click.
- Support image in the palette for VS-PythonPart.
- Write Py code with external editor.
- New .pyp version to protect the original graph.
- Auto backup.