BIM Strategies for managing trim and woodwork.

[cberg]

I am interested in learning how folks organize architectural projects with lots of architectural woodwork and trim from a BIM perspective. 

 

I tend to build and class the walls, by construction phase—New, Existing, Demolition. The trim is then developed as a set of add-on features.  I class woodwork according to whether it wants to be on or off in plan/RCP.  (A_Trim Doors, Wall, Ceiling Trim, Base, etc).  Ideally, walls would act as a container to help manage all this architectural detail.  But for whatever reason, they do not.  (Walls need some serious modernization.) 

 

I’m curious to know how others would tackle a project like this.  The photo below describes the type of space I’m currently looking to document.

 

@Paolo Your Mouldings Plugin is a must for this type of work...   Thank you!

  

 

 

Edited July 11 by cberg

[GregG]

Hi cberg,

 

My few cents.

 

We use the @Paolo Mouldings Plugin https://fitplot.it/vwplugins/index.html

and

https://plugins.andreafacchinello.it/

 

On top of that whatever it takes, extrudes and all kinds of solids.

 

Creating Auto hybrids helps to keep the plans looking OK 

 

[GregG]

Forgot to mention...

It is important to keep good track of the profiles when not using custom trims.

Matching intended profiles with current trim catalogs takes some patient upfront work.

 

And....

All that detail makes the file size go way up.  Something to keep in mind. 

Edited July 11 by GregG

[cberg]

@GregG  Very elegant models.  I have a lot to learn design-wise.  I am curious how you organize the model....

 

Regarding your file....  Do you do all solids modeling or do you use walls + whatever it takes?    I like walls for a bunch of reasons, and I like them as parametric objects.  However....  they don't play well with solid modeling.  A few observations...

 

Walls + Solids, for example, cannot be joined into an autohybrid; and autohybrids are hard to edit once made. 

If you add solids to the wall, then it becomes a nightmare to edit or move the wall. 

Wall features don't turn corners.

Mouldings objects are already hybridized, so they dont join up with other solid objects. 

 

Do you put all the trim on classes or layers?

C

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited July 11 by cberg

[GregG]

I keep the order of parts just like it would be built.

 

walls stay as walls, they have a temperament of their own....

 

trims would be on their own classes, base trim, widows trim, doors trim, ceiling, etc.

cabinetry on it's appropriate classes 

and so on.

 

When the interior work is elaborate the trims and finishes are on their own layer

 

Int elevation section viewport pic enclosed shows a simple example back from 2020

Cabinets here were done with VW. 

 

Other users may have better ways of doing this as well as better examples

 

[cberg]

That makes a lot of sense.  Everything is built off the walls (as you would from a construction perspective).  I like the idea of developing a interiors/finishes layer to help manage the 3d Information.