Name: BIM for CAD Users: Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction
Uploaded: 2026-09-23T06:46:05.074Z
Duration: 54 min 31 s
Description: BIM for CAD Users: Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction

Transcript for "BIM for CAD Users: Prefabricated Prefinished Volumetric Construction": Hi, everyone. We're just getting ready. Few more people joining. So, just give us a couple of minutes, and we'll start in start in a few more minutes once we just get a few more attendees so no one misses, the kickoff. Okay. Time to, make a start. We'll be recording this, and we'll also put this on our channel if anybody wants to watch it afterwards. So today's presentation webinar is gonna be on BRICSAD BIM, and we're gonna be focusing on how you can use these tools for the DFMA sector, which is designed for manufacturing and assembly, or others now call it MMC, model methods of construction. My name is Samuel McAllister. I work for Octave BricksCAD, and I'm a senior solutions consultant. So, looking at the design for manufacturing and assembly workflow, we're gonna be looking at one that is specific in the Singaporean APAC region, and this is prefabricated, prefinished volumetric construction. This is where, we'll be covering how to use a PPVC workflow and take you through how to capture information starting with sign information, serve information, CAD sources through to coordinating the data. So bringing in IFC data, working with CAD BIM based workflows to generate and coordinate modeling data, and then going a bit further through into developing and and detailing the model with some of the mechanical parts later to BricsCAD. If you've worked in the DFMA environment, you're probably familiar with this. If you're new to it, three key strengths of doing stuff off-site. When you're working in off-site fabrication, stuff can be done in parallel. You could do numerous pods. Things can be happening on the site for enabling. You can, shorten the length of time for your project timeline for the duration, and you can also have less on-site labor requirements, less trades working on top of each other. You can work in factory conditions. You can speed up that productivity. Also, we have quality. If you have ever worked on a construction site versus working at a factory, it's it's much safer in a factory, and, you don't have to deal with the the weather constraints. You can have consistent construction outcomes because you're working in this controlled environment where there can be, better equipment, more standardization repetition. And if you get it right, you can improve the logistics and coordination in terms of staging areas, assembling parts in the factory, and then shipping at the site for installation. Finally, the two key things is safety and sustainability. So, if you've got less laboring work happening on-site, then, there's gonna be less accidents potentially happen, so less high risk for construction tasks. And you typically save up to 30% in terms of construction waste, less less offcuts, less noise to the, community, and less disruption. So with that, we'll be getting into the agenda of CAPTCHA. So if you're using tools like BricsCAD Pro, you can bring in information like GIS site data. You can bring in live ASRIA aerial imagery. IFC data, can also come in for creating a tint surface, and I'm gonna show some tools where you can do fast labeling with the attributes from the GIS data. In the the BIM modeling component, we'll be getting more into the coordination of different data sources. So we have the BIM overview, and then we get into the to the setup. We have, the IFC importing, and we have the ability to transfer data or project standards between the models that we're producing. We'll get into some detailing and management of the model, adding XML. So this will be relating to the, XISC schema, and we'll look at, bill of materials for scheduling out parts. Finally, we'll touch on how you can develop this model because we're looking at, DFMA. We want to be able to look at how the materials are composed for precast and in situ, get into some ways that you could detail and join parts together. If you wanna move into other verticals, we have numerous add ons for BricsCAD. This one we'll be touching on is one for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing. And then finally, just showing you how you can make extra parts, to do with, crane logistics. So the hoisting components, we'll show you how to model some of that for hoisting pods into place. So capture, coordinate, and develop will be the three core themes of today's presentation. So to diagram this out, if you wanna see this in the the the big picture, when we're capturing our site, we're gonna have this GIS and site data coordinate together to create a site located in Singapore. We'll then be working with some ISC data for the core, the structure, and the grids, pushing ISC standards into those elements, then developing, p p PPVC module and showing how you can add extra detail to that module for, manufacturing and site logistics, and then how you can bring all those modules together in a xref assembly for, your final documentation. So first section is capture. We'll go through this reasonably quickly. We've got a whole another webinar on this, but it's just to make you aware of some of the things you can do with the, the BRICS CAD engine. So we'll cover how to bring in the GIS data, Esri aerial imagery, IFC data for services, services, and we'll work with that GIS data to generate, automatic labels via the attributes. So if you're not familiar with, GIS data, you can bring this into BricsCAD Pro easily, set up your coordinate systems, and then layer in Esri shape information underneath it. Here, starting in BricsCAD on the start screen, you can choose a template or you can even customize your own one. To work in this one, we're gonna use the civil survey environment. So there's BIM, there's drafting, two d drafting. When you choose that workspace environment, it will change the ribbon display and the interface. So we're gonna be going to the insert and choosing a coordinate system. If you don't have the coordinate system here, you can download extra coordinate systems and load them into your data roaming environment or BricsCAD. Here, we've just set it to the Singaporean ESPG three one four. We can then bring in our GIS data. GIS comes in, as your shape files, GML, KML. The files I got here for Singapore have, various shape files or say the KML files. I'm just gonna bring in, say, four for now. A lot of, governments or councils or municipalities will provide this data for free. We bring this in, based on the corner system, and we set it up so it's polyline. You can use any polygon that will fill stuff in with hatches and solids. So use poly polyline to start with. And here we have, GIS information brought in to BricsCAD, and it's all dropped into corresponding layers. So simple way to set up the data on-site for the right railways, roads, waterways, buildings, site footprints. Now we wanna be able to bring in some corresponding aerial imagery. So if you haven't checked this out, you can get a free API key from ArcGIS and load this into your online maps inside of BricsCAD Pro. So here here in your geolocation, you can choose the online maps. Out of the box, we have the open street map, which you can use. We used to have Bing that's been dropped now, for later versions, but you can choose the open street map, and it will align in real time an open street map under your GIS data. So when we zoom in to the bay here, you can see that the GIS line work is overlaid with that online map. Now if we want to choose an online map from Esri, we can get this API key free from ArcGIS to load in high definition imagery. So, if you wanna know how to do this, there's a short tutorial on how to do it on the ArcGIS platform. So let me just go there, follow the steps, and we'll give you the API key, save it to text file, and then load it into your BricsCAD Pro environment. Once it's done, it goes up and pulls down that aerial imagery, and then you have a high resolution map underlayed under your GIS data. So you can zoom anywhere in the model, zoom in, zoom out as far as you want, and that data will continue to stream into your modeling environment. And if you want if you want it to be static, you can choose, to capture that online map. Choose an area, and it will crop it to that area. Next, IFC. So you can bring in numerous IFCs into BricsCAD. We're gonna bring this into the pro environment and use the IFC to showcase some of the contextual buildings and the TIN surface. So all we've done here is we've imported in an IFC. We've just chosen the default settings, and we're in the civil survey environment. Now depending on the quality I see or depending on how the model will shape up, this one, we're mainly looking at it because of the surface. So it's brought in the TIN, and you can see there's a little bit of data in behind it, and there's some stats. With that TIN, we can then have a look at that information, or we can go to the actual authoring part of the model and then add points and simplify, update, do a lot more with it, even drape aerial imagery over that surface. The simple one they wanna show today is enabling contours. You can turn on your major and minor contours. You can even turn on elevation and slope analysis, customize it graphically if you want to see that in your site environment here. We're just simply working with IFC in the civil survey space. You can work with a TIN surface and then generate your contours from that TIN in the civil survey environment. Finally, for this bit, wanna show how you can leverage again the GIS data to label your site model, your context model. So we can turn off the aerial image. So here within the, geolocation, we'll just turn that off so we can clearly see our GIS data. And we wanna look at two parts. We wanna look at the the buildings and, the site areas. So here, under the settings, I've created, a couple of area labels. This is simply done by duplicating the default label. So if you go to this out of the box, you can click on the label style editor, give it a textile, put on a layer, go through the basics. The key part here is adding code blocks. So under components, you can go and edit and add various code blocks that will read data from the GIS attributes. So out of the box, you had the length and the area. You can reuse those or you can edit and add new ones. So I've got two that I've made here. One is for the building foot footprint, and one is for the site area. I can go and use that to, tag or annotate my site areas here. So I go back to the home tab and the civil survey environment, add an area label. So I'll make sure it's on that label style. So site area, you can type that in or compaste as I do just to to bring out the style you want. Choose that GIS, square, polygon, and it automatically adds that tag telling me how many square meters that site site is. Next, you wanna do it for buildings. This is where some of the smarts come in. So we've got the same process for doing buildings, but because it's intelligent attribute data, we can go and use the code block to extract out more information about that building. So when I select it here, it not only gives me the area, but also tells me the name of that building. And that's all come from the attributes embedded here within the GIS data. So you can see down here, you've got that data, and it can be read in BRICSAD civil survey. So that was just a a quick overview of site setup. If you do have any questions, save them for the end, and we'll do our best to take you through some of that. But we do have a couple other deeper dive webinars on how you can use that to set up your three d site environment for BIM and DFMA. In the corner space, there's gonna be a bit more here. We're gonna be getting into the overview of the BIM tools. We'll be talking about the setup, the database, the project database, how to import and leverage some of the IFC levels and data, how to transfer data between parts of the project, how to do some basic modeling, adding, an XML schema for adding attributes to parts of your model. And then finally, just an overview of the bill of materials, the scheduling tool to do your takeoff of those model elements. So if you're new to, to BricsCAD BIM, it works with a database of components, and they can be shared across your company, across your servers. We've got typical tools to do your standard modeling for your walls and your slabs and your roofs, etcetera. And we've got content in our library to drop into your BIM environment and shed you out or even, adjust with certain parameters to flex. We've also got different types of management tools where you can configure how you want your project structure to be grouped and sorted. Like a lot of BIM applications, you can work with the data in different ways and organize it as per your preference. So here, we're just starting with the BIM environment just using a BIM metric template. When you start, just save the drawing, save it into a designated folder. Everything that you need to run this project will be in that folder, including, the project database. When you save it, you're gonna be pointing it to the database that you want all the information to read from. So this one is a work in progress, but the idea here is you have your central database, and this might be on your network server for everybody to access across the company. And then when you go to start a project, it will read that information and load it into your project database like these wall compositions here. So, here, you can see project database, central database, and they're synced across. And now I can now leverage those customized standards inside of my BricksCAD environment to start working up my model. Typically, if you're coming from CAD and you wanna work in BIM, it it's never been easier inside of BRICS CAD to just bring it in, link in a CAD file, a two d DWG, and then set up the database to now start working over the top of that file. So here, I can go and just do the basics. We're about to go too deep on everything today because there's a lot to get through, but here we have panels which you can load in to the right of your model. On the left is more like your project management tools. We can work with simple things like walls and wall types. I've customized my ribbon a little bit to find all the tools in one place, so you can change your CUI if needed. And all I'm doing here is I'm just drawing some basic walls, store box. They clean up. They fill it. And then I'm dropping in one of the advanced windows. You can move this around up and down using the quad tool or type in the measurements you want, and then you've got parameters here that pop up for you to drive the size, the width and the height of those windows, the depth, etcetera. What's also interesting here is you can control each individual panel. So built into this, modeling component, which is a block, it has all these different intelligent features for you to to change. And given it's BIM, you can change the name of it to window type one, and you have the parameters to flex it as well. So that's the simple one zero one to get started using the basics of the BIM tools. If, you're working with IFC data, you can bring in a lot of IFC and other BIM authoring tools natively into BricsCAD. There's a couple of ways to work with this data. So in this example, we'll be bringing in an IFC, and we want to extract the levels. The IFC here, it has, by default, I've set it to Xref. The Xref, will come in later. We wanna bring it in so we can read all the data and extract out some of the data for, extracting levels. So this is the model that's come in, and there's no x rays or anything in here. But here we have from our ISC all the grid levels available. So I could reuse these again in my Brexscan environment. What's also done is it's gone and extracted these levels from the ISC into the spatial locations manager. So this is just like a levels tool, and I can select that and give it a building name. So if I wanna control where I've got those levels from, I'll call it an ISC core. The default building height is 3150, and we can choose the region, put an address, add all the information as needed. But this, again, is extracting intelligent information from an IFC. I don't need to reset the sample, duplicate inside of BricsCAD. I can bring that in, and it reads that information. Now if I link it in, I can then do a little bit more with it in terms of referencing another data and making sure it's controlled. So when I come to import that file again, I wanna bring it in as an xref. This will generate a separate underlay DWG model, which I can control. So perhaps I need to update that file in a different container folder. I can manipulate that and not affect, or not have to make changes in this main main model here. So that's now duplicated as a DWG. However, it still maintained all the layers. So I can still work with it in the same mannerisms that I would, with a with a, AutoCAD environment. Next, I want to maintain the xref workflow. Now you might wanna do this with blocks or groups, but I found xrefs, at least for this environment, to work a bit better because we want to better open them in different files and put in more detail and not overload the model. So by having a few xrefs here that have attachments, so my full unit has four pods attached to it that track across, I can then load that into my environment and place it as need be in my model. The authoring models, I'm working at the zero comma zero environment. I could set this up if I want to be a bit more complex in a, geo coordinated environment. But I'm just doing the basics here, and I can, move these around my model, attach them to levels, array them, group them as needed. Moving into other management tools. So you have your central database and your project database. However, for more, finite bits and pieces, you'll have your drawing explorer, which works like your, project standards or project project data transfer. So I can open up, say, one drawing and then three other drawings, and I can copy across different standards to replicate across those drawings. So in this, video workflow, I have something I made here. I was modeling the the grout joint. So when these pods go on-site, they're gonna be stitched together. So you might have a bit of rotting going through it, then you pour in concrete, cement, and stacking it up to stick it together. So I've just done a a basic model of this, which is a block. Now I can save the block as something else. I can change it. I can duplicate it. I can go into, the settings on how I want this to display. Here, I want to have this and some of the other, grouse that stitched the buildings together and all the other pods. So I've only got it in one pod. So something like this wouldn't be in the central database because it's a more of a one off. So I'm making it as a block, and I wanna copy it across. So all I need to do is go to one of the files that contain those blocks, select them, and it's just a simple copy and paste from the authoring model into the new model. So here, when we expand it and I go to paste it, we now have those grout modules inside the other drawings. So that's how we would transfer project standards across various models using the drawing explorer. Back to some solid modeling here, We do have, some simple tools to model three d components and then convert them into BIM elements. So this example here is, looking at bringing in some of the components from the BIM library and then showing you some of the parameters. So these are the, out of the box components. So if you go to the library I mean, you can bring in more of these, duplicate, create more, customize them. This is just some of the ones for the bathroom. So all I'm doing here is I'm just dragging and dropping it into the CAD environment. You have the parameters here to adjust the height of it. So because these are pods and everything has to stack in certain ways, the bottom slab is one fifty mil, so we're making sure the toilet is one fifty mil. Again, you could add more levels or spatial allocations here if you wanna get more detail about it. I just try and keep everything very simple, and, I can move that into place. Now with that in place, you can see here under the BIM parameters, it has a name, it has some flow terminal type information, which we can switch between. You can give it a number. You can change the the type. And because it's parametrically driven, it should, change for you in the modeling environment. Now if you've got, data and you need to add more information to that model. So, out of the box, you've got certain parameters, but you need to add information maybe from building smart or in this case, from the, Singapore classification library. You can go here to the BricsCAD BIM part of Coronet X, and you can download the SG configuration file to load into BricsCAD. So the team have put together, like, a simple guide on how to do this. It's just a couple pages, PDF just showing you how to load those properties and put it into your BricsCAD environment to be read by the BricsCAD elements, by the ISC elements. In this video, all you need to do is go to the BIM tab, hit properties. I've already had this loaded, so it's ISCSG, but you can just import that XML file. And here you have all the sets. So under these sets, it'll automatically be read in the bricks cap properties now. So this is an IFC from another modeling platform, but we've been able to push that XML schema into that concrete slab. So you can see that information is available. Same with the share walls, that schema is present now. So we have all that information instantly load into our model. We haven't had to do any heavy heavy lifting here. If you need to look at it a bit more depth, we do have, more information on how you can assign those schemas to certain parts in the model. Finally, moving into the bill of materials. So this is like when you do your schedules, and I'm just gonna show a basic one on how you can do a a schedule or a bill of material for a precast or in situ concrete wall. So here when I select some of my walls, you can see that under the data, under the massing data, we have, almost a a cubic meter of concrete going into it, point a four. Now I want to be able to schedule that out, and I'll be able to schedule out, and differentiate between what's gonna be built on-site, what's gonna be precast, and do my calculations for the 360 pods we have in the building. So here, this is just the the basics of doing a bill of materials, but, just to show you what you can do, you can add a formula. So I can navigate down to the wall based quantities, and then I can set it to cubic meters. I think at the moment, I've got it, reading not to the right, right cubic meterage, but you can go and make an adjustment here in the formulas. So you just go to the settings and use the target unit unit to be cubic meters, and now you can see each one of those elements are gonna be reading the cubic meterage from the model. Now there's a lot more I can do here, of course, to to change the naming conventions. If this is a real project and I had the time, I'd do it. But this is just to illustrate how easy it is to extract out quantities from the BIM data and then bring it out to an Excel spreadsheet for a QS to work with further. Now, moving into developing the model, there's a lot you can do. Because this is CAD, you can you can go all the way into the the last detail you want, the the last millimeter. So we can work with, fine tuning material compositions. We can get more into our detailing. We can work with partner tools for, mechanical and hydraulics, and we can even model up the hoisting components. Doesn't have to be perfect, but it still is a tool that you can model up enough to understand the logistics and where things are gonna go. And if it's CAD, you can send it to other engines for manufacturing. So in the, material compositions, what's important to know here is, you can build up a, a drywall, plaster wall with 70 mil stud, 50 mil each side, but then you can get into the identity, the appearance, and the properties. So if I wanna look at precast concrete, I might give it a unique code. I might put some costing in it here on the right hand side, keynote information, who the manufacturer is, where to get it from, and then add more stuff to do with thermal conductivity, density, etcetera. All of this can be added in the detailing of those, material compositions. So here, at the beginning, when you're designing, you might not know what the material's gonna be. You can just work with a basic wall. But then once you've decided what those materials are gonna be, you can assign new materials to those walls. So here, I'm working with, some precast concrete. We've got some railway materials as well for graphics. We've got some hatch patterns here. Simple stuff to set up that can come, from updates in your central database into your project database. All I need to do here is just click the parts I want to convert from basic wall into the concrete. There's also a select similar command here. You could set up some filters to do this a bit more quicker, but I'm just gonna select those wall parts. I don't need to hold down shift or control here. Just grab them, and I just drag that concrete wall to one of them, make sure it's selecting and highlighting, and then just do a regen to reload the graphics. And now we have our precast concrete modules set, and when we hover over it, it tells us that they've been changed. To go further with this, because this is a a solid modeling engine, which actually understands that you can convert things or classify them as BIM components, we can start modeling a lot more inside of the BricsCAD environment just using your familiar KEGG commands. So I'm just working with the basic two d snapping, and I've got a polyline. Ideally, when you're modeling, use a polyline, close it off, use a three d polyline, and you can sweep and extrude and model around it. So here, I've just extruded a polyline, one fifty mil. It's just a mass. But I can go and use the BIMify command to go through all those solids and convert them into intelligent BIM components. So now you can see it's added BIM parameters to that three d model because it's recognized it's a slab. The other way to do this is just to go and use the slab tool. You can go and select entities or draw the polyline or work with a rectangle shape. You can assign it to the level. You can set its justification, and it will create a one fifty mil slab. So you still get the same result. It just depends on what you're comfortable doing. You don't have to do everything. You can still work with your two d CAD data and convert it. Another great feature here is, being able just to work with the solids and cut through them easily. So here, we have this quad tool. This is like a little pop up which gives you access to extra features right at your mouse click. All I've done here with the wall is I've just drawn some three d polylines on the face, and I'm using a simple push pull tool to cut through those solids. So I'll select that face, extract it through, or bring it out, and it will create an opening for my ducting. If I want to indent it, so perhaps there's a junction on the wall, you wanna have a twenty, thirty, in this case, a 75 mil, notch. We can notch that back 75 mil, and that's gone into the wall. We don't need to go and do any other edits. It's just simple basic modeling geometry. And same again here with extruding the wall up. So maybe there's a slab connection on top of this wall that you wanna model, But we have some notches, some extensions, some openings for our HVAC and for our pipe work to run through. Simple stuff, powerful inside of a cab modeling engine. Other cool things you can do if you want, to get into that that one to one detail is you can use all these modeling features to add the detail to components like you would in a real world. So if I want to chamfer that slab edge, I can select the edges of it. It just connects them all up, and I can choose the size. So maybe it's 10 or 20 mil, and it will add that chamfer. So, again, simple things that you can do with a really powerful modeling engine based on CAD. In the, mechanical library so if you get to, if you get BRICKSCAN and get ultimate, you'll get BIM, you'll get the pro, and you'll get the mechanical library. And inside the mechanical library, you've got all these little tools for detailing. So So I'm just gonna touch on a couple of basics. I wanna bring in, say, some some holes to the slab, just some, slot countersinks. Again, this might not be applicable in the real world, but I just wanted to show how easy it is to do it. So when I bring it in, there's some parameters to drive the diameter, the length, other parts of it, and then I can, copy or array it, across some line work. And what what's great about CAN is you can keep on using this line work to help control or drive certain parts of the modeling workflow. So I can do arrays. In this case, I'm just doing a polar array. I can give it some spacing. I can give it a number. And you can see here, once I complete that command, we now have the countersunk holes in the slab. It also puts these little placeholders in here just to show that there are some voids. So though we're showing red, we can just turn on and off that layer to see where that, subtract component is. But now we have, holes in the slab, which we can adjust just using the array command. The, other part we can do here is we can get into, adding other features like, say say, bolts. And this could be done for rebar or if you want, more advanced tools, there are numerous add ins on the BricsCAD site. But to do this out of the box with BricsCAD, if I wanna add some some bolts, I can just use our little gizmo here and pull that bolt out a little bit so we got something to tie into. And, likewise, I can repeat that command of using the array, path, polar, or rectangular, select that, and then drive it across the edge of that slab for connecting up another component. So just simple little things like this can be done. You can see the amount of detail on those bolts, the threads, everything is there down to one to one all within the BricsCAD CAD environment. Now, moving into other add ons, and we've got a store for this, but, we just wanted to show this one. We we we're looking at doing a a webinar with the team on this one, the a x three thousand team. This is where you can do your HVAC and your electrical and hydraulics. A simple example here is where we can run It's gonna play for us. We can run, a schematic bit of line work and connect it up to the outlets. So we've got some stuff here in the plant like the, the hot water cylinder and some other bits and pieces. We wanna connect up the hot and cold feed to our wash hand basins, our toilets, and our urinals. Just like I've been doing before, you're just working with polylines. In this case, we've got the trade lines, and it doesn't need to be perfectly accurate because, you know, when the trader comes on-site, they're gonna be, working it out. But this is the schematic to show how you can do your hot and cold feeds to to the outlets. So we've got the first parts set up, and now we want to connect it. So here, we'll connect those cold feeds to the urinals in the basin and then hot feed, and likewise to the toilets and the other wash hand basins. And then when it's done, run the tool over it to add the actual three d geometry and all the junctions based on the tool's parameters. So that one is a x 3,000, and that will enable you to go further with your MEP components in our BIM engine. So, here, I just wanted to add a few more little features here. So you you can do, your pipe working, your HVAC work, HVAC work, and your, structural work inside of BricsCAD, but it doesn't have all the automation. But you could do the basics here. So if I want to, make something here for hoisting, like a a collar frame and some safety railing, I'm just gonna use the polygon, the polygon polyline modeling tools and use some of the profiles to sweep across those polylines. And here we have our steel beams, custom I beams from British standards. I'm just using the Alconnect to clean up the junctions. Accept, and now we have, some I beams with intelligent bin data behind it. I'll add some cross brace in the center, but bigger. And then I'll apply some pipe work to make my railing. So we can go out of the steel filter, choose the pipe work, and we can choose some of the pipes, some of the galvanized steel pipes to replicate, our handrail here. And once it's finished, it will provide a little cleanup junction. We, of course, can, add columns, metal columns to represent the supports for the handrails. Again, I haven't gone and made everything perfect here. I'm just moving stuff up in the zed space. Easy to do. And I can, copy or array these around the model. And now we have the basic starting point of, a handrail. And, again, bring in the bolts or bring in stuff from the standard parts library and mechanical, use the, array tool. So instead of using the path tool, I'm just showing how you can use the rectangular array, and you set one row of columns and numerous rows of rows. And then we're just copying them across or mirroring them across to form the connections. So, again, just a basic way to, create some hoisting information with your collar to hoist the pods into place. So with all that, I know we'd have gone over the just the basics today because we're we're not trying to go too deep. How do you bring it all in into the BIM environment? Well, we x ref it in. So I have the full pod unit, which has been x refed in. I'm not bringing in the lifting color frame. I just have that as an overlay. So if you're familiar with Xrefs, attachments follow, and attach. Overlays only sit within that one drawing. Here, I have my four pods representing one apartment unit, and I can bring it in to my DIM environment. And here I have my 360 pods sitting in my, housing unit with all that detail, and then I've also added some little, roof gardens here with some railings for the residents to enjoy. So that's, the final outcome. And, again, there's a lot more you can do with this. We just sort of scratched the surface today just to give you an overview, but you can work with the detail down to one to one and then use the Xref and the BIM central database to start producing content like this. So just to, to wrap up and recap, today, we covered how to capture data. So the the site data, the IC data, and the GIS data, Then bringing in the IC data to generate our levels, add the, XML schema. So if you're working in Singapore or working with, OpenBIM, you can push data into it and add it to the model components. And then touched on how you can develop your model at a bit more detail to support design, manufacturing, and assembly, and then stitching it altogether for delivery. So with that, I'll pause and, I'll open it up to the floor for q and a. And I'm just checking with Jin. K. So thanks, Jen, for doing the monitoring, and, I will go through the questions. Let me try and start from the the bottom first. Okay. So, first question, could you please show the format of data being load load into BricsCAD? Yeah. So we we load in, IFC or CAD based data. I could probably show a little bit of this live if you wanna see it. Let me see if I can change the sharing on my screen. So Let's see if that comes through. Let me do that one. No. Not that one. Not that one. So I'm working on numerous screens, and let's see if we can do this live or not. Ah, here we go. Okay. So, yeah. So the question was, can you please show the format of data being loaded into BricsCAD? So it is, a CAD based environment, and this is just just my my module here. When you want to load in data, you can import it, and this might be a bit tricky for me to do because of the way it works when presenting. Okay. So because it's going off to one side, you can bring in IFCs. And when you bring in that IFC data, you'll be able to read, the intelligence within it. So if I open up this one, for example, everything does convert into CAD, by the way. So it's still gonna be a CAD based workflow, and there are some parametric modeling components. But these ones, for example, which are IFCs, does have has been converted to CAD, but it does have the intelligence data. Okay. I'm gonna stop sharing this one. I'm gonna not do anything live because live demos don't like me, and, I'll just go back to sharing that window. So if anybody has any questions beyond this that I can't answer, we'll, we'll cover it in, an email. So yeah. So base basically, the the format is CAD. You can work with IFCs, numerous other file form file formats. And, you can convert them, export them in other file formats as well. So I'm just gonna move forward a little bit. So another question. Is it possible to model M and E services? Yes. Yes. Mechanical, you can do some HVAC, but I'd recommend using an add in for productivity. You could still work with three d polylines and then, sweep a profile, bring another CAD components and and stitch them together. That's possible. It it just depends on how far you wanna go with it. Electrical, maybe maybe cable trays, and and conduits. But, really, there's more there's more with the add ons to to do this and then connect it up and have something that is more, has more BIM smarts. Integration with other, integration possibilities with other, coordination with with others. So Sorry. Let me read this out just word for word. Integration possibilities such as coordination with other other file formats. So, yeah, you can you can work you can, if you're working with Revit, you're working with IFC, you're working with Bentley DGN, you can bring all that data in. In fact, when you bring in a Revit file, it works really well. So it will read an RVT and an RFA natively just like, you would with ISC data. So we do have this listed on our site, but, yeah, you you can convert a lot of the data and bring it to BricsCAD and reuse it. AI Assist. Got AI Assist collabs with custom national building standards. No. I'm gonna say no. There is no AI assist that works with the national building standard. You could possibly use Claude to develop one or you could pay a third party service provider. Yeah. I did work in a company that did do some of that. And to set it up, you've gotta train the AI. You've gotta test it, and it's not cheap. But if your company is big enough and you want to to do that, drop me an email, and I'll connect you with a company who might better help you out. But it's a a 6 figure sum to do that. Thanks, Lawrence, for, the compliments. And how to set the Geodesy and BricsCAD, the geokey the geokey and BricsCAD. Yeah. So if you need to do that, I will try and share my window again. Let me temp fate and see if I can swap, swap my window if that doesn't work. No? Okay. So my software, didn't like me because I'm running too many things today. Drop me an an email. Drop me an email, and I will, I'll get back to you on that one. But, yeah, at the moment, my modeling environment had too much going on. K. So, Jin's just, run some notes here. So we'll we'll just we have done some survey. And, yep, my email. Thank you, Jin, for putting that in. Okay. So I'll just, double check again if there's any last minute, questions. No? Okay. Alright. Well, thank you, so much for joining today. Jun, anything else you would like to add before we close out? Okay. Alright. Thanks very much, guys. Thanks for attending, and, please drop me an email if you've got any, deep dive questions. We'd be happy to help you on your, BricsCAD journey. Thanks.