Dimensioning Metallic Structures through Interoperability between BIM system and Parametric Modeling.
Parametric programing. NURBS. Dimensioning. Structures. BIM.
The process of designing and building curvilinear architectures is still challenging. The use of multiple applications with distinctive design paradigms is unlikely to disappear. The interoperability used here was not just the conventional one. It was also ‘live,’ in ‘realtime’, with two of the applications involved opened and running simultaneously. A design workflow based on the use of form forming applications connected via parametric programming to building information modeling, BIM, was proposed. The main objective was to facilitate designing and building curvilinear architectures and their supporting structures simultaneously using two different design paradigms. The aim of this dissertation was dimensioning metallic structures through interoperability between BIM system and parametric modeling using visual programming. The results consist in a series of algorithms for dimensioning said structures.