Geelong Library & Heritage Centre

DFM Systems combines the specialist services required in the production of Project Handover Documentation with the latest computer technology, to provide building owners and managers with a single point repository for the vast amount of information, drawings etc. needed to operate and maintain today’s modern buildings.

DFM Systems can produce O&M manuals electronically or in paper copy. The company has over 10 years experience and employs engineers, qualified in technical writing, to ensure that all project documentation is complete and handed over to clients satisfaction.

DFM System's client list includes some of the most respected companies in the world. DFM Systems is a global company operating in Europe, Australia  and the Middle East.

DFM Systems

Taisei Corporation

TAISEI decided to deploy a paperless process with DWG files centralized in the cloud, using Microsoft OneDrive for Business. This enables real-time synchronization of DWG files between the design teams, who produce the DWG drawings using ARES Commander, and the construction workers, who view the drawings on iPads. But the next challenge was to deploy a Mobile CAD solution on more than 4,000 iPads to enable the construction workers to read, annotate, and eventually modify these drawings on site.

Taisei Corporation Deploys Mobile CAD on 4,000+ Ipads

ARES is the modern alternative for 2D/3D CAD in DWG, already used by 3 of the top 5 construction groups in Japan, as well as leading manufacturers such as LG, Hyundai and Samsung.

CAD Anywhere: Desktop CAD (Windows, Mac, Linux), Cloud CAD (runs in your Internet browser), Mobile CAD (Android tablets/smartphones and iOS iPhone/iPad)

Modern workflows leveraging cloud and mobile to synchronize the work across all your users and devices

DWG for BIM features in ARES Commander to create smarter CAD drawings which geometry can be extracted and updated from Revit and IFC BIM projects

ARES Commander - Desktop CAD: All the 2D and 3D features to create and modify DWG drawings on Windows, macOS and Linux

ARES Kudo - Online CAD: Create and modify DWG drawings online and enjoy new collaboration features to comment with voice, photos, texts and stamps

ARES Touch - Mobile CAD: A full set of 2D features to create, modify and annotate DWG drawings on your Android smartphone/tablet and iOS iPhone/iPad with unique collaboration feature to markup with voice, photos, texts and stamps

The ARES Trinity of CAD Software | Create and Modify DWG Files With Modern Collaboration Tools

ARES Commander CAD Software for DWG | Modern 2D and 3D CAD for Windows, Mac and Linux

ARES Kudo Online CAD for DWG Viewing, Creation and Modification in your Internet Browser

ARES Touch Mobile CAD for Android and iOS to View, Create and Annotate DWG

The ARES Trinity of CAD software by Graebert

MEAN* Middle East Architecture Network

Deciduous is a 3D printed pavilion that invites us to revisit our relationship with nature, through an experience reminiscent of walking through an abstracted botanical form.
Building on MEAN’s experiments with 3D printing in design, the pavilion is an exploration in scaling processes to the architectural realm.

Deciduous is composed of a hybrid of 3 different sustainable materials: CNC-milled Birch plywood flooring, Robotically 3D-Printed Concrete Base, and a series of branching 3D-Printed PETG stems, a plastic polymer up-cycled from 30,000 discarded water bottles.
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In light of Dubai’s focus on 3D printing as a sustainable technology, the hybridization of state-of-the-art Robotic 3D printing in Plastic and Concrete is a first attempt to explore the possibilities that the two technologies can offer, contributing to the emirate’s vision of ecological construction growth towards 2025.

Deciduous is designed to come together in interconnected parts, and is completely prefabricated off-site. The parts can be mechanically joined on a clean site with no need for heavy machinery. Computational modeling was used to conceive and quantify the design to a level of detailing optimal within the parameters and constraints of Large Format Robotic 3D Printing.

Deciduous

Rhinoceros 3D is a 3D computer graphics and computer-aided design application software developed by the American company Robert McNeel & Associates. Utilizing NURBS mathematical modeling to produce precise representations of free-form, curving surfaces, Rhino is used in industries such as architecture, industrial design, automotive design, product design, and multimedia and graphic design.

Rhino 3D

Grasshopper is a visual programming language and environment that pairs with Rhino 3D, a software program also developed by Robert McNeel & Associates. Grasshopper allows users to build algorithms by dragging and connecting components on a digital canvas. From parametric modeling and fabrication, lighting performance analysis, to building energy consumption, Grasshopper provides an intuitive way to explore design without requiring programming experience.

Grasshopper

MEAN Designed a 3D printed pavilion for welcoming visitors into the desert of Wadi Rum, south of Jordan. The space serves as an oasis of rest and communal gathering. Drawn to its otherworldly beauty, The desert of Wadi Rum in the south of Jordan attracts visitors from all over the globe.

The topography of Wadi Rum closely resembles that of Mars. This serene desert landscape had been a stage for many space-age movies such as ‘The Martian (2015)’, ‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)’ and ‘The Last Days on Mars.’

Considering the lightweight geodesic dome system of ‘Mars Camp’ located on a plot near the site, the design team envisioned a novel system of 3D printed panels deployed onto a CNC bent steel pipe system.

By grounding the tent form as a ‘diagram of forces’ emitting various ‘charges’ that correspond to seating areas, we looked at the phenomena of magnetic fields to unify those charges.

We used the patterns emerging from the interaction of one space to another to develop the floor plan of the pavilion. The physical phenomena of the magnetic force patterns between several nodes represent an opportunity for an exciting planning strategy.

To quantify this phenomenon into a digital algorithm simulating those patterns, the team wrote a script that adopts the ‘RK4 Method’, developed by the German mathematicians C. Runge and M.W. Kutta around 1900. The ‘flowlines’ from the magnetic field simulation projecting onto a digitally simulated optimized mesh generated via a script approximating catenary curves.

The script generates vector fields resembling magnetic forces manipulated to subdivide the structure's outer shell into panels within the printing range of a 6-axis industrial robot.

A stepping topography of a 3D printed concrete platform creates a transition from the sandy site to the interior. The mesh is anchored towards the periphery of the stepped platform, creating welcoming archways for entries.

The Desert Pavilion is the outcome of combining ideas from the site with current building technologies.

The structure's design forms a space of shade from the heat of the desert during the day, and a place of celebration, storytelling and rest, at night. It serves as a welcoming, hospitable shelter for today and a case study for inhabiting the arid landscapes of Mars in the future.

Desert Pavilion

Keyshot

3D modeling and rendering software for design visualization, games, and animation

3ds max

MassMotion analysed a range of entry and exit scenarios at Stockton’s Grade II Listed Globe Theatre, due to reopen in September 2021 after a £20m+ refurbishment,  to ensure good crowd management on the public highway.

Consultants integrated the theatre’s Revit model with the Stockton town centre 3D model to produce comprehensive visualisations and analyses. Now the model has been developed in MassMotion, it can also be used assess customer experience for different events, to address security and social distancing concerns and to optimise use of bars and other facilities.

Read more at: www.oasys-software.com/case-studies/integrating-existing-data-sources-to-model-pedestrian-behaviour/

Globe Theatre, Stockton - MassMotion

Established in 1976 as the software house of Arup, Oasys is now recognised as a leading commercial developer of engineering software for structural, geotechnical, crowd analysis and pedestrian modelling solutions. Find out more about the people we serve, 

The World's Most Advanced Crowd Simulation Software

Oasys MassMotion: Software Development Kit Overview

Oasys MassMotion

WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff employed Newforma apps to streamline an
otherwise-cumbersome punch list process on the National Museum of African
American History and Culture (Washington, D.C.). Read more at: https://go.newforma.com/rs/591-QYU-211/images/Engineer_Canada_WSP_300003.pdf

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Project email and file management software for architects, engineers, contractors and owners. Newforma Project Center enables project teams and firms to be more effective as they organize project data, collaborate with team members and manage construction projects from inception to delivery. Use Project Center to reduce risk inherent in any project through simplifying the organization, distribution and access of critical project information (e.g. emails, RFIs and submittals, etc.) while maintaining a full audit trail.

Newforma

BVH Architecture

How do you survey 1,300 rooms and file 40,000 photos efficiently? Layer provided the Capitol team one platform to capture, organize, and share the building data and photos they collected in the field and then view that information instantly in Revit. 

Nebraska State Capitol

Layer App is a flexible database connected to BIM. We make it easy for AEC professionals to capture, view, and edit data and files right in Revit. Desktop, Mobile App + Revit Add-in. Sign up for a demo or start your free 30-day trial at https://layer.team/

Layer App

Schmidt Schicketanz

For their PhD research project, Mortiz Mungenast and Oliver Tessin searched for a way to use 3D printing technology to create an intelligent architectural product, a 3D printed façade. Read more at: https://archipreneur.com/recyclable-3d-printed-facade/

Deutsches Museum in Munich

Founded by Moritz Mungenast, Oliver Tessin and Luc Morroni in 2018, 3F Studio stands for fused form and function. The German-based studio specialises in 3D-printed performative architecture and future-oriented design.

3F Studio is a spin-off from the research project Fluid Morphology at the Technical University of Munich’s Department of Architecture, and offers its expertise in computational design and additive manufacturing (3D printing) for the development of function-integrated facade applications and novel concepts for interior and furniture design. This encompasses the use of new, recyclable materials to create sustainable solutions for overcoming the future challenges faced by the building industry.

3F Studio believes in the performative and aesthetic qualities of innovative technologies such as additive manufacturing to develop novel applications with a distinctive design vocabulary.

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