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BIM and Structural Design for Wood! |
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BuildingWorx is a complete 3D Building Information Modeling (BIM) platform for light frame construction with complete wood structural design capabilities. Produces structural calculations and framing layout plans, wall elevations, schedules and bill of materials (including hardware lists.) Tired of building custom "generic families" that do not work for light frames; try Building Worx and save days on wood design and modeling!
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Key Features of BuildingWorx program
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| Building Codes |
- International Building Code (based on ASCE 7)
- Options for user-defined loads and allowable stresses to accommodate other building codes
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| Design Options |
- Design using standard stock lengths to reduce waste
- Design of wood beams, headers , posts...etc
- Design of cripple walls and posts
- Design of steel beams, posts and moment frames
- Design for reactions from shear walls (over-strength load cases)
- Joist design
- Design of balloon framed walls
- Auto-design based on rules defined by user
- Automatic detection of bearing walls and post locations for beam support
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| Drawings |
- Import of architectural drawings in dwg and dxf format
- Control visibility of imported drawings using layers
- Vertical alignment of different floors using control points in from imported drawings
- Export of framing layouts (including bearing walls, beams, joists posts, connectors ...etc)
- All drawings are exported in customizable layer system for ease of incorporation into plans using Xref
- Export of complete framing schedules including beam, joist, post ...etc
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| Loads |
- Seismic and wind forces
- Uniform and non-uniform area live loads on floors and roof
- Non-uniform snow load
- Optional automatic live load reduction
- Assign external loads on floor or wall elements
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| Modeling and Analysis Options |
- Entire building in one 3D model
- Support for hybrid construction of wood, CFS and steel
- Automatic generation of joists at any angle with automatic support detection
- Simple or continuous joist span layout
- Visual graphic editing of framing elements
- Intelligent beam elements with automatic adjustment for different types of support (posts, walls, other beams ...etc)
Intelligent wall elements with automatic adjustment after editing connected elements
- Automatic detection of elevation differences between framing elements
- Automatic detection of unsupported elements with graphic display to assist user
- Special provisions for modeling of ceiling and mezzanine framing
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User Interface
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- Tools for editing structural objects and their loads with automatic adjustment in connected elements
- Automatic generation of structural components in parent objects (for example for each shear wall, the program automatically add sheathing, boundary posts, hold-dwons, hardware and 3x studs at abutting edges of plywood as required per calculations)
- On screen editing of selected elements (in 2D and 3D)
- Overlay of stacked floors
- 3D structural view showing complete load path
- 3D textured view of building (with optional user-defined textures)
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| Bill of Materials |
- Complete framing bill of materials
- Wall framing elevations and joist layout showing exact cut lengths to avoid cut errors and waste of materials
- Plans show exact beam cut lengths eliminating field errors
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