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Challenges
When starting his engineering company, Jörgen Joonas found that AutoCAD, which he had used until then for projects, was no longer sufficient or efficient. He saw that the path to the future, and to better workflows today, was building information modelling (BIM) in an Autodesk® Revit® environment.
Jörgen’s goal was to eliminate the brainless work – “dragging lines across the screen all day” – to have time and energy “to do the real engineering stuff.”
Reacticon OÜ
Jörgen Joonas runs his own civil engineering firm, Reacticon, out of Estonia. His focus is on buildings and other structures that use precast concrete.
That was not so easy. He soon discovered Revit lacks important functionality, and he himself lacked the know-how to optimise workflows. Working with precast assemblies in plain Revit requires a lot of manual work on view layouts, dimensioning, take-off, and inserting elements to achieve good detailing. Dynamo, the visual programming language for Revit, looked promising to automate routine tasks, but writing scripts was complex and time-consuming.“I decided it was very much worth paying for professional productivity tools,” Jörgen recalls.
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Impact
After starting to work with Agacad’s software, “we immediately reduced the time spent on making shop drawings,” Thingbø notes.
Norconsult also quickly began noticing other benefits for its precast concrete work. For one thing, there were fewer mistakes in BIM models. At the same time, communication with customers about projects improved. And within the firm, collaboration and the distribution of work became easier as the team discovered new flexibility in handling assignments.
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Jörgen has been impressed by the constant ongoing development of Agacad's products, with “significant updates multiple times a year adding new functionalities and improving existing ones,” and by a customer support team that “writes me several times a year to ask how it’s going.” He notes, “I can’t recall ever seeing such dedication anywhere else.”
Products used
In his search for expert BIM tools, Jörgen stumbled across some videos about Agacad's precast package: "My jaw dropped. The rest is history.” He calls the package a “time saver and ‘brain fog’ reducer.” He was first amazed by the Smart Connections toolset, which enables batch-insertion of grout tubes, cast-in plates, anchor bolts, lifting bolts, and cuts.
Precast Concrete
3D modeling and drafting software for precast concrete buildings
Smart Connections
Streamline LOD 400 modeling in Autodesk® Revit® for easy connection detailing