design and bills of quantities

DESIGN AND BILLS OF QUANTITIES
Design and Bills of Quantities with AutoCAD and PriMus
AutoRapidus is the software solution born to integrate Design and Quantity take offs
by interfacing AutoCAD with PriMus. In addition, this software gives extra power to
your AutoCAD (or AutoCAD LT) simplifying Architectural Design.
Software overview
•Dynamic connection between Architectural design and Bill of Quantities with the
automatic composition and updating of the .DCF (document computation format)
keeping any measurements that were inserted manually
• Quantity Estimating of the whole drawing or parts of the drawing previously selected by
the designer
•Parametric measurements of the drawing entities (such as walls, doors, windows, etc)
obtaining precise Bill of Quantity measurements for each drawing
•Dynamic Updating of the Bill of Quantities document in relation to the modified drawing
entities
•Connection of one or more Price List items to each drawing entity by means of simple
Drag & Drop operations
• Different measurement items with different measurement descriptions can be defined
even for a single drawing entity (e.g.: a Wall entity within a drawing can be quantified in
surface finishings, painted surfaces, etc.)
From Integrated design to Estimating
Capable of interfacing itself with PriMus and PriMus-P, AutoRapidus quickly links each
drawing element to one or more Price List Items, by means of quick and intuitive Drag &
Drop operations with both PriMus and AutoCAD open simultaneously on-screen.
The drawing created in either AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT, automatically generates the
corresponding BoQ in PriMus thanks to a dynamic transmission of all drawing related
measurements.
Modifying a wall or even an entire room dynamically updates all of the Price List Items
connected to the given drawing entities and therefore to the total Estimate cost in PriMus.
With AutoRapidus the BoQ document and the design’s economic assessment, become
fundamental decision factors integrated within the Architectural Design and capable of
conditioning decision making activities.
Much easier to Desig with architectural entitiesinstead of tracing simple lines
Instead of tracing lines, with AutoRapidus the designer can draw walls that connect
automatically, windows that are inserted within walls, doors and other “architectural
entities” available in a “styles” archive that can be modified and updated obtain an
optimized 3D model.
The wide range of architectural entities supplied with the software guarantee the
automatic conversion of your 2D Design to 3D. Roofs are easily generated starting
from a simple 2D polyline; stairs are parametric and can be user-defined; pillars and
columns can be configured in a dedicated dialog box and interact with all pre-existing
entities; railings, fencing and glazings together with walls etc. can be easily configured
thanks to a very rich library of profiles and 3D blocks that can be continuously updated
by the user.
Simplified Architectural Design
With AutoRapidus the Designer can use “architectural entities” from a “styles” archive and with
just a few clicks, build a three-dimensional model and produce plans, cross-sections, prospects,
perspective views or broken-out sections.
All views can be generated in 2D wireframe (with overlapping lines), 3D wireframe and various
shading modes.
It is also possible to add external and internal dimension lines to the building design, compute
zone surface areas, calculate Lighting Ratios and organize summary tables that can be inserted
within the drawing or simply exported to Excel.
ACCA software S.p.A. - Building Industry Software
P.IVA 01883740647 - E-mail: info@accasoftware.com - Internet: www.accasoftware.com
Basic Features
Advanced Features
•Guided creation and insertion of walls, doors, windows, roof
•Dedicated Applications for AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT
tops, stairs, pillars, columns, railings, fences, glazed walls
and parametric areas
•Automatic connecting of walls at their intersections
•Style management of wall entities entirely customizable
•Style management for windows and doors with different
drawing scales for details
•Complete worksheet configuration, plotting scale, Widget
type and positioning
•Rich library of 2D/3D blocks for interior design, offices urban
planning
•Calculation of areas, doors and windows together with
summary tables in AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT and Excel
•Calculation of Lighting Ratios together with user definable
summary tables in AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT and Excel
•Automatic creation of the 3D model with one or more
storeys in using hidden lines or shaded view graphical
representations
• Generation of hatched curved and straight 3D walls
• Wide range of 3D casings for doors and windows
•Automatic creation of balconies, slabs, pavings related to
both internal or external areas
•Door styles, windows and walls and preset or user-defined
slabs for fast and reliable 3D generation
•Fully automated Roof pitch creation
•Full 3D prospects generation using convertible reference
points to 2D, 3D orbit, Pan and 3D Zoom in real time with
hidden and visible lines
from v. 2005 to v. 2010.
•Power Edit
The advanced function that allows the user to dynamically
control (select, modify, delete, replace, etc.) the various
elements inserted within the drawing.
•View Manager
Dynamic dialog with which the user can activate or
disactivate the desired views.
•Libreria con oltre 4500 blocchi
Library with other 4500 blocks for casings, roofs etc.
capable of supporting the user in the design of complete
environments, a 2D library is also available with electrical
and hydraulic devices.
•Build up and management of complex constructions
or even composed of one single DWG file
•Multistorey management in one single DWG file even
in BoQ environment and 3D
Floor levels can be copied from the existing floors to new
floor levels; previously created floors can be used in layers
for basing any new floor levels.
Dynamic communication between the Architectural
design and Bill of Quantities document
With dynamic updating and creation of the .DCF
files allowing the user to keep any manually inserted
measurement data.
•General Design Data management integrated within
PriMus and the Worksheet Widget.
•Creation of sections, prospects and broken out sections
easily converted into 2D files
•Built up and Demolished areas manager (highlighted in Red
or yellow)
•Automatic creation of roof frames by simply starting from the
definition of the entire roof or roof pitches with the relating
BoQ data
•Doors and windows styles and geometries
•Creation of niches and pilaster strips for both internal and
external walls with quantity take offs and creation of walls
with variable thicknesses and section geometry
AutoRapidus System Requirements [vers. 8.00a]
•Personal computer with Pentium IV CPU or higher
•512 MB of RAM (1 GB suggested)
•Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 or higher, Microsoft Windows XP
Service Pack 1 or higher, Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows 7
•Hard Disk and Mouse
•2D/3D Video Card (128 MB minimum, 256 MB suggested)
•Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher
•1024 * 768 video resolution (1280 * 1024 suggested)
•Autodesk Volo View (ACCA Freeware available at www.accasoftware.com)
•AutoCAD(*) o AutoCAD LT (v. 2005, v. 2006, v. 2007, v. 2008, v. 2009 o
v.2010)
•PriMus-DCF Revolution or higher (ACCA Freeware available at www.
accasoftware.com)
•For web based services: Internet connection
To benefit the full features (Drag&Drop, styles associations, entities etc..) PriMus or
PriMus-P (v. Revolution ) is required].
(*) AutoCAD means the product sold individually and NOT bundled with other AutoCAD
vertical solutions (like AutoCAD Map 3D, AutoCAD Mechanical, etc.)
•Optional - Autodesk DWG Viewer 2008 / 2009 (ACCA Freeware available at
www.accasoftware.com)
ACCA software S.p.A. - Building Industry Software
P.IVA 01883740647 - E-mail: info@accasoftware.com - Internet: www.accasoftware.com