INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Previous ARCHICAD versions have provided custom classification and property assignment to any construction element or zone in an ARCHICAD model.

In ARCHICAD 23, we have extended these capabilities to the Building Material: the most important attribute for building components.

Custom Properties for Building Materials

By introducing custom classifications and custom defined properties to Building Materials, we solve critical user problems in the area of the mandatory deliverables. With this development, users can fulfill downstream 4D/5D BIM software (cost estimation, quality assurance, model analysis) requirements with standard or custom material classification and property assignments. It also offers a robust and reliable alternative to the currently used method of embedding Building Material data into its Name field and extracting it by custom GDL scripts or IFC splitting rules.

The Building Material-level solution is like the Element-level solution introduced with ARCHICAD 20. You can define classification items and property definitions in the Classification and Property Management dialogs respectively; custom property values can be defined in the Building Material Settings dialog.

Since property values are part of the Building Material’s definition, these can be transferred between projects via XML files exported from Attribute Manager.

Building Material Properties can be shown on any output, so that material-related BIM data can be distributed among stakeholders:

Just like any Element Property values, Building Material Property values can be used for scheduling criteria and can also be added as Fields in Component Schedules;

Building Material classifications and property values are available for GDL Element Labels on any model derived drawing, and can be exported to IFC;

Component Schedule data fields will be exported as component properties to IFC2x3 format and as material presets to IFC4.

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