GET YOUR DRAWINGS
VisualFrame imports your RAM Structural System™ model in AutoCAD® and creates framing plans, elevations, and a 3D model automatically. Depending on whether you look at a drawing in plan view, elevation view, or isometric view, the VisualFrame structural member objects display themselves as single line, double line, or 3D graphics.
Numerous options let you match your drafting standards.
Once the model is imported, you can add sheets, schedules, partial plans. The schedules include concrete beam reinforcement schedules, concrete column reinforcement schedules, and steel column schedules.
A navigator pane similar to the AutoCAD sheet set manager lists all the drawings in your project, letting you switch from one drawing to another with a single mouse-click and compose your sheets.
EDIT YOUR DRAWINGS
When you look at your drawings in plan view, they look just like traditional single line drawings, and all AutoCAD editing commands – including MOVE, COPY, OFFSET, TRIM, and EXTEND – work. In addition, VisualFrame includes many specialized commands, such as matching beam designs, comparing and matching rebars, and rearranging design labels.
The VisualFrame 3D model is an assembly of the framing plans and a 3D skeleton drawing containing all walls, columns and lateral members. When you move a beam on a typical floor plan, the 3D model reflects the change at all the levels represented by the typical floor plan.
SYNCHRONIZE YOUR DRAWINGS
Unlike the DXF output of analysis programs, VisualFrame updates your drawings. You can import the latest changes from the analysis model, and all the editing you otherwise did to your drawings is maintained.
Better, at any point you can compare any of your drawings and your RAM model. A dialog shows you the differences between the two, and lets you decide how to resolve them on a case-by-case basis. You may leave any item as is, or import the new geometry, or import the new design, or import both, or export the new geometry, or export the new design, or export both back to RAM Structural System.
SHARE YOUR DRAWINGS
Once your model is ready, you can share it as a BIM with architects and others in the design team. The architect can view your VisualFrame drawings provided he downloads the freely redistributable object enabler, or you can give him level snapshots generated by VisualFrame in which all the structural members are AutoCAD 3dSolid objects.
You can produce a CIS/2 file which detailing programs such as Design Data SDS/2 and Tekla XSsteel can import. Because the CIS/2 file is generated from your drawings, it includes all the steel and it is fully architecturally coordinated.
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