Trelligence Affinity for Revit Pre-Design | Programming | Schematic Phases

How can I automate the collecting/managing of a design project’s conceptual/programming data while connecting it with my Revit project?

Which is easier and less costly to obtain?

• Asking a client to “sign off” on a design that’s been “lightly modeled” according to their design scope or waiting until its been fully modeled in Revit?

Trelligence Affinity, the 3rd Party software for Revit Project’s Pre-Design, Programming, Conceptual and Schematic Phases was featured at the Madison Revit Users Group yesterday.

Trelligence Affinity | Programming-PreDesign-Conceptual Software for Revit Demonstration Videos

Trelligence President, Larry Ciscon PhD, demonstrated Trelligence’s value for capturing, visualizing, analyzing and bi-directionally syncing a design project’s programming data (scope) with Revit models.

Business value points from my Madison Revit User Group notes:

• Trelligence is designed to “inform the designer, without forcing the design programming onto the designer”.
• Start your project in Trelligence Affinity or in Revit – Changes syncs using Revit’s API
• Import spreadsheet data sources & connect/sync to Revit project properties
• Template driven for specific project-type & prototype programming; schools, hospital, medical clinics, restaurants, etc.
• Templates store your standard client questionnaires, pre-defined room layouts, space types, equipment requirements, room areas & volumes
• Provides visual color coding (text, 2D or 3D) to compare programming to design: spreadsheet views, bubble diagrams, graphing, mass modeling, single-line or color filled walls between spaces
• Quantifies spaces-volumes between multiple buildings, floors, wings, departments, alternates, design options and phases
• Sets relationships, dependencies & priorities between spaces-rooms | informs designer when these conflict with original programming.
• Revit-BIM Interoperability: Importing, connecting & syncing 2D/3D plans between Revit & Trelligence
• Export to IFC and gbXML formats

Trelligence has been available for Revit 2008, 2009 and now 2010.

• View the Online Trelligence AffinityDemonstration Videos

Trelligence Affinity provides significant value for the best phase of a Revit project; before its fully modeled.

Additional Revit Conceptual / Pre-Design Phase Tools

• WinEstimator Revit-BIM Workshop | Marquette University-College of Engineering
• January-February 2010 Free University Seminars | WinEst Revit-BIM Construction-Estimating Technologies