IDEA Architecture for Smart BIM Architectural Design

Here is a summary of IDEA’s main features:

- Totally new GUI interface (enhanced property panel, new dialogs/modelers for the BIM objects new options for visual styles, new status bar and toolbars)

- Enhanced BIM editor in the properties panel (filter to select specific entities)

- Smart Building manager ( xref manager, building storey manager etc)

- Generalized use of smart grips to handle any object (of any degree of complexity) in a very handy way

- Specific functions related to construction objects, such as corner windows, walls of any shape (freely defined by the user), wall parts attached to stairs and/or roofs etc.

- Totally restructured rendering algorithm for even higher speed and quality

- New 3D furniture libraries (with a true and real insight)

- New IFC 2x3 input / output functions, ensuring absolute compatibility with other BIM programs (Revit® Archicad® etc) and really fast import.

- Use of Orthophotomaps, including the most precise and comprehensible visual information.

- 4D/5D BIM by linking the building objects with the construction phases and the project planning, as well as with construction costs and the project budget.