Presented By: Jeffrey Dragovich; Desimone Consulting Engineers
The workflow from reinforced concrete column design to drawing production goes through many stages. The traditional approach is unidirectional: Engineers would use 2D drawing and engineering analysis to obtain the design loading and slenderness of the column, the column reinforcement would be designed, followed by a markup a column schedule to be drafted. This presentation describes a bidirectional workflow where the starting point is the Building Information Model (BIM). Using the BIM geometry, the engineering analysis and design is performed, and an Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) model is generated for automatic population of the column schedule, including column reinforcement section and elevation details. Detailed aspects of this bidirectional workflow are presented, such as use of IFC reinforcement models and automated transmittal of column design loading for the column schedule.