Solibri Model Checker

Solibri, Inc. develops and markets Quality Assurance solutions for AECO field that analyzes Building Information Models for integrity and physical safety. It is also called t he first commercial Design Spell Checking product . The software makes the entire design process more productive by improving the quality of Building Information Modeling (BIM). With a single mouse click, the system X-rays the building model & identify potential flaws and weaknesses , highlights the clashing components, conflicts or design-code violations, provides a vital tool for the AEC interoperability design workflow.

This task is enormously more complex than a word spell- checker--for a start, the model itself has to incorporate a certain level of intelligence and building semantics, so that the model checker can interpret it, analyze it, and then point out any errors in it. Checking against best practices will give more confidence in the data product models contain. Several constraints can be combined into user defined constraint sets, like Checking for quantity takeoff purposes. The tool also creates a Virtual Reality (VR) view of the building allowing e.g. walk through capabilities. The VR view provides a communication platform for findings. It is extensively used a growing number of building owner and users, construction companies, architects and engineering firms.

Solibri Model Checker™ is a valuable tool for

A lot of tools can do interference detection, but a lot of them are just comparing geometry to geometry. Solibri is based on rules, so once rules are established, you have also established constraints. Then, when you're checking models, you're actually checking for compliance with rules. When an issue is identified it tells you what rule has been violated and what the constraints were, so it's very intelligent and much more of an analytical than CAD tool. The rules that could be checked include ADA compliance, ANSI/BOMA standards, egress analysis, energy analysis, space usage, space validation, and even design validation and design quality assurance. With Solibri Model Checker, you write the rules and then check your model to see how it complies with those rules. It represents the move to more logic-based tools, so when you're building your models to be, let's say, green or LEED compatible, you do your model and this will tell you whether or not you actually achieved those results. It's a model checker and what it checks for is totally user definable. There are rules that exist as templates already, by which you can just edit the variables to establish your own parameters and there are new rules that can be written — usually by third parties — for analyzing behaviors such as security, circulation, operational rules, etc. The way in which rules are input enables the user to do quite a bit of what-if testing. If, for example, you're allowing a tolerance of four inches and it's set for six, you just change it to four inches, then you run your check and it tells you how you did. I think this is part of a shift toward really having the "I" in BIM become very important, when you're dealing with information instead of just the geometry of the model.

Solibri Model Checker imports IFC R1.5.1, IFC R2.0 (IAI certified) product model files and it can communicate directly with Object Oriented CAD systems e.g. ArchiCAD.

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