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  In AEC world, there is several laws and rules to control the building design, structure design and MEP design. Headroom is one of the common rule that control the emergency routes or the car parking routes of the building. In this blogger, I would like to share and useful tools which can check the headroom of building refer to the model. Introduction of Solibri Solibri is an open bim software which accept the IFC format. Base on some man-made ruleset, it help to check the quality of the imported model. The common usage is use to check headroom, width of access, distance between pipes, clash of elements, etc. Workflow of checking headroom 1. Export IFC file from BIM software From the effort of openBIM company, most of the BIM software can export IFC file. Besides use Solibri,.  please ensure the coordination system and export. For example, Revit can export IFC 2.3 to IFC 4.0 base on share coordinates. Also, if different headroom checking is need for different room. Please gro...

Continues to the blogger of CBWD, I would like to share more detail about the slab and wall opening modelling and the usage of this model and detail workflow. This model can large help for construction cost, mep coordination and building progress. Workflow of creating slab and wall opening model 1. Create door opening, Louvre opening and Acess opening Create architectural opening base on preliminary architectural model automatically . 2. Create MEP Opening Create MEP opening base preliminary MEP model automatically. Magical is one of the rebut addin to create MEP opening base routing and wall 3. Update opening base on CBWD needs Update the opening manually base on the comments on CBWD. This stage may need large manually works. 4. Lock the frozen opening After the CBWD is approved and available for construction, lock the related opening. This stage is to confirm the opening model match site construction . Usage of Slab and wall opening model 1. Benefits for future MEP rearrangements Whi...