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Digital Design Tools - Building Services

Matthew Menzies
Hi All.


I'm new to this local forum and thought I would start a thread. I work in building services as an electrical design engineer and am interested if we have any other building services engineers that are interested in digital design development? In particular I am interested in Revit/MagiCAD/ProDesign 3D tools and linking with others that use these tools and share an interest in pushing these tools to their limits.


I'll post some more later, just wanted to get a feel for the types on engineer we have in the forum.


Cheers

Matthew
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    Hey Matthew, great topic! I work in electro-mechanical design in the defence industry but with Industry 4.0 the digital twin concept is becoming more and more important and these tools are key to making that happen. We use PTC Creo for mech design but i personally play with autodesk inventor and AutoCAD for educational purposes as the license is free for student use. As a sparky i've also used ElectricalOM for building services electrical design as it can interface in to Revit- not functionality i used but good to know it was there so i could do my circuit specification and distribution definition before it's pushed up a level to building services. https://www.modecsoft.com/site/electricalom/
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    Hi Rob. Thanks for your reply. I have trialed Electrical OM and had a demo from their development team. I really liked the way that it integrated with Revit, particularly the ability to push information in both directions. We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating a MagiCAD dataset which includes a lot of technical data within the families, it's basically like a catalogue, EOM was perfect for pushing design parameters from the model into your cable calculation tool. We've been using ProDesign 3D (Amtech) for a couple of years now and although it is improving it doesn't give the same flexibility.
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    Does rely on the manufacturers providing the technical data to the tool vendors it seems. Quite a good selection in EOM (i use schneider so well covered) but wouldn't it be good if there was an industry database that they all tapped in to so it was consistent regardless of tool eh.

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