Start from one building model.
Plans become one connected model of walls, levels, roofs and openings that every discipline works from.
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Follow the building
through the work.
See how your team can follow design changes, review coordination findings and keep engineering decisions in context.
Keep the drawing and building together.
Read a plan beside the model. Change levels and layers while keeping the whole project in view.
Inspect the framing in context.
Open structural framing tools while the building remains in view.
Trace the systems through the model.
Select a duct to review its system, cross-section and elevation beside the structure.
Find the conflict. Keep its context.
Review a duct-to-framing finding in the validation sidebar and locate the related elements in the model.
Read the quantities behind the model.
Review element counts and cost context beside the building view.
Keep the sheets
close to the model.
Drawing sheets and the detail library are part of the same project workspace, so the details travel with the building they describe.
Sheets by discipline
General, architectural and structural sheets, numbered and grouped the way a set is issued.
Callouts on the plan
Footings are labelled where they sit on the foundation plan.
A tagged detail library
Standard details, tagged by element, ready to place on a sheet.
Markup at drawing scale
Measure, dimension and mark up each sheet at its own scale.
Not just shapes.
Relationships.
A drawing shows where a beam is. Spacial’s model also knows what the beam holds up, what it bears on and what runs beside it. So when one part changes, you see everything it touches before the set is issued.
Inside the world model
Structure
Beam
A beam carries the floor above to the columns at each end, and shares its depth with the services that run below it.
Connected to
What if it changes?
Make the beam deeper