With the current version of the FIDES Infrastructure Toolbox (FIT), we are extending the functionality for specialist foundation engineering with a powerful new feature: parametric modelling of excavation support walls directly in Autodesk Revit.
Using a dialog-based workflow, you create complete excavation support systems in just a few steps, including soldier pile walls, sheet pile walls, diaphragm walls and bored pile walls. All components, such as steel beams, lagging, walers and anchors, are generated automatically and remain fully parametrically linked.
Changes to geometry, elevations or anchor levels are automatically applied to the entire model. This makes it possible to model even complex excavations much faster and to adapt them flexibly to new design requirements at any time.
Highlights of the new functionality include
- Seamless integration with Autodesk Revit
- Dialog-based creation of parametric excavation support systems
- Support for all common excavation support wall types
- Flexible definition of elevations and elevation profiles
- Automatic adaptation to digital terrain models
- Parametric anchor levels and walers
- Detailed component schedules and quantity take-offs
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New and improved features from previous FIT versions
- Convert original Leapfrog IFC models into FIT soil layer models
- Easily copy excavations, saving time and increasing efficiency
- Transition edges for excavations, enabling more realistic modelling
- Support for even more complex excavation geometries, for example inclined base slabs with rounded transitions
- Easily transfer slope properties from one edge to another
- Automatic dimensioning of key excavation coordinates
- Export Revit topographies and terrain volumes as LandXML files and split them along model lines
- Select multiple surfaces when creating excavations
- Dynamic updating of slope hatching and backfills
- Easily modify soil layer boundaries using grips
- New algorithm for simplifying digital terrain models
- Faster and more reliable excavation backfilling
- Improved change management with the FIDES Browser
- Import and convert Leapfrog IFC files into FIDES soil layers
- New tool for creating complex excavations
- Improved change management for excavations
- Faster and easier setup of views
