Solibri/ARCHICAD Link Makes BIM Quality Assurance Easier
Emily Pollock posted on October 12, 2018 |
In Solibri, components that are highlighted to show that they’re in need of repairs are also automatically highlighted on the ARCHICAD model. (Image courtesy of Solibri.)
Graphisoft and BIM quality assurance developer Solibri have come out with a bidirectional link between two of their products, allowing users to perform quality assurance checks on their BIM models at any time during the design process.
Solibri Model Checker (SMC) has been around since before the phrase “BIM” was coined, but one of its biggest functions now is BIM quality assurance testing: ensuring the structural integrity of BIM models. Previously, designers who wanted to use Solibri would either have to wait until they were finished designing their model, or would have to save back and forth between the two programs. Now, users can work in both of them at the same time.
“Having access to Solibri’s unique rule-based Quality Control technology in such a smoothly integrated way will help our customers deliver better designs in a shorter amount of time,” Peter Temesvári, Director of Product Management at GRAPHISOFT, said in the companies’ joint press release.
When users download the link, there’s an SMC icon added to ARCHICAD’s main menu bar. The icon allows them to directly import the BIM model into SMC and check it against its integrity requirements. SMC analyzes the design,…