Connecting BIM and Design: A new digital design workflow

Synopsis:

The design process and BIM implementation are often disconnected and don’t develop in parallel, making BIM tedious and meaning that full adoption is delayed until stage 3. Break the silos and create a seamless workflow between BIM and design teams from the start of the project, and delay your design freeze.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn the advantages of an integrated Revit-Rhino workflow for design and delivery of projects, and shift the design authoring platform as the project progresses, obtaining the best of each software
2. Identify your goals and create a strategy and workflow to achieve those objectives, planning ahead for submission requirements and preparing the necessary content beforehand
3. Create an interoperability strategy between platforms with the implementation of new technologies like Rhino.Inside and identify how this affects your processes

Body:

Quality of design should never be hindered by software skills or restrictions – computers should always assist you instead of driving the way you work. Every software has its own limitations, and the output of a project might be influenced or affected by these capabilities.
BIM platforms and design software have opposite strengths. To obtain the best of each platform it is beneficial to have them working in combination throughout the whole design phase, complementing each other. This will also assist in bringing BIM culture closer to designers, breaking the entrenched silos between the disciplines. Embracing designers in BIM allows an earlier implementation in the project and delays design freeze, as every iteration is captured in the federated model.
This workflow proposes a fully integrated approach to the use of Rhino and Revit, describing the interoperability requirements of these platforms at the different stages of a project. Interoperability is a big challenge – we will review how having an agile methodology can allow you to incorporate emerging technologies and how this technology affects the design process.
The points we will focus on are divided in three different fields: strategy, management and coding.

Strategy
-Define your interoperability strategy depending on the goals to achieve with the BIM model. Without a plan, all interoperability is fully inefficient.
-Think beyond the obvious – differentiate between ‘good to have’ and ‘need to have’, with the aim of achieving a lean model.

Management
-Plan ahead your deliverables and prepare them beforehand.
-Adapt your modelling standards to achieve a smooth transition, the more clear and better data you have at source, the easier it will be to achieve great outcomes.
Interoperability
-Create your scripts, test, use, implement, analyse, improve and start the process again. It is only through using them that you will understand how to become more efficient.