A complete solution for the next generation of plant design and automation, CADWorx ® Plant Professional includes the most complete DWG file-based range of tools for effective plant design and offers unparalleled flexibility and collaboration. CADWorx Plant Professional runs on AutoCAD ® or BricsCAD ® platform and includes BricsCAD. Leica CloudWorx for BricsCAD provides users with a route to begin modelling or creating linework from point clouds stored in Leica Cyclone or Leica JetStream, directly within BricsCAD. CloudWorx for BricsCAD returns major time savings for firms of any size. 2 days ago By leveraging the power of premium imagery from providers like Maxar, Airbus, Nearmap, Hexagon or Google Maps within BricsCAD and visualizing designs into Google Earth, engineers understand project site conditions early on, speed up processes and avoid rework.
Today at the Bricsys 2019 Conference HOK, Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, and Bricsys announced a multi-year initiative to advance Scan-to-BIM technology.
The ultimate goal behind this initiative is for Bricsys, with its AI expertise, and Leica Geosystems, with its industry-leading reality capture solutions, to jointly develop technology that allows for the automatic conversion of point clouds into solid geometry. Through the use of machine learning techniques, these solids will be transformed into an intelligent BIM model, with automatic IFC classification. The automated conversion of point clouds to 'BIM-geometry' (a.k.a. ‘Scan-to-BIM’) is expected to accelerate today's time-consuming renovation and construction workflows, delivering significant productivity gains to Bricsys and Leica Geosystems customers.
With some of the most recognizable global renovation projects under their belt, industry guidance from HOK will deliver a solution that is customer-first and scalable, built to handle large commercial reality capture projects with ease. Greg Schleusner AIA, Director of Design Technology Innovation at HOK, stated, 'At HOK, we use BIM tools to deliver our work. However, BIM has yet to deliver on its promises. Bricsys has shown us technologies that we are quite excited about, especially in the area of creating better, richer models in less time. The Scan-to-BIM initiative, in partnership with Bricsys and Leica Geosystems, is another step in our continued goal of enabling our project teams to focus on making quality design decisions vs. spending time manipulating data.”
In addition to a supercharged workflow, automated Scan-to-BIM technology will deliver significant efficiency gains during the execution phase of a new building project. More rapid BIM generation will help minimize approximations and allow for more exact quantity take-offs, delivering an increase in the accuracy of bulk material estimates to return significant improvements in pricing estimations and thus cost savings.
“We are dedicated to adding customer value to the BIM process with our advanced reality capture solutions,” said Fabio Ponzio, Hexagon’s Geosystems division vice president of building solutions. “In collaboration with our sister company, Bricsys, and long-time customer, HOK, we are working to change how firms approach re-fit and retro-fit projects with more effective and efficient workflows.”
'We are proud to announce that our BIM Alliance partners at HOK and our colleagues at Leica Geosystems have joined Bricsys in this initiative,' said Erik De Keyser, Founder & CEO of Bricsys NV. 'Our CAD innovations in the area of geometry creation and machine learning have brought strong value to this partnership. We are excited to explore an idealworkflow with HOK and work with Leica Geosystems to make it happen for our customers, worldwide.'
Using a unique combination of industry insight, precision laser scanning techniques, and cutting-edge AI, the HOK, Leica Geosystems, and Bricsys consortium are committed to creating the next generation of Building Information Modeling workflows.
About HOK
Founded in 1955, HOK – formerly known as Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum – is the largest U.S.-based design, architecture, engineering, and urban planning firm.
About Leica Geosystems
Founded in Heerbrugg, Switzerland in 1921, Leica Geosystems, part of Hexagon, creates complete solutions for professionals in a diverse mix of industries, including surveying and AEC.
About Bricsys
Founded in 2002, Bricsys NV is a global provider of computer-aided design software, marketed under the BricsCAD® brand. Bricsys has been a part of Hexagon AB since late 2018.
Plex-Earth, a full-blown popular platform for AutoCAD that brings the world’s largest aerial and satellite imagery providers under a single umbrella, now expands its offering to BricsCAD, to inform smart engineering with recent, historical, high-quality imagery and terrain data.
By leveraging the power of premium imagery from leading providers like Maxar, Airbus, Nearmap, Hexagon or Google Maps within BricsCAD and visualizing designs into Google Earth, engineers understand project site conditions early on, speed up processes and avoid rework.
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The ability to rapidly and easily obtain quality real-world data remotely with Plex-Earth, is of utmost importance especially in light of the coronavirus pandemic, where site visits and ground-based surveys are limited or not possible.
Instead of using free imagery sources that are often outdated and unsuitable for commercial engineering use, designers can make full use of Airbus’ and Maxar’s vast historical datasets or Nearmap’s and Hexagon’s ultra-high resolution imagery to get better precision and track the progress of their projects.
With Plex-Earth’s unique business model, individual engineers, small or large businesses can all have access to premium content from within their preferred CAD environment, for a flat subscription fee and at no extra cost without the need to seek individual companies and commit to large contracts. A fully-functional free trial of Plex-Earth is available a at www.plexearth.com/free-trial.
About Plexscape
Plexscape is a software company committed to changing the way engineers work on Architectural, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) projects, by developing innovative solutions that bridge the gap between design and the real world.
Our award-winning team (and Autodesk Authorized Developer since 2010) is proud to have created Plex-Earth, a full-blown platform that brings the world’s largest aerial and satellite imagery providers like Maxar, Airbus, Nearmap, Hexagon and Google Maps together under a single umbrella, to give engineers easy access to recent and historical high-quality imagery and terrain data right from within their CAD environment.
By also connecting AutoCAD and BricsCAD to Google Earth to facilitate 2D and 3D real-world visualization, AEC designers get a complete understanding of their project sites' conditions from the very beginning of their workflow, speed up processes and avoid the high cost of rework by reducing errors.
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