Kris Riemslagh, co-founder of hsbCAD presented at Autodesk's first DevCon in 2016. We work with companies who are investing in automating their prefabrication of construction, picking up where the architect stops.
HSBCad delivers software solutions to the prefab industry to enable them to be free to construct any design, with any technology, and with any production system. Now and in the future, improving their competitive edge.
In construction the biggest money loss happens on site. Hsbcad offers software applications to make this prefabrication happen, both applications that work on the desktop and cloud solutions. This presentation will cover these solutions and more, including:
- More about HSBCad
- Complexity, detail and automation solution on Revit CFE
hsbTimber on Revit
- Jump into the cloud: hsbShare
-From cloud to AR with Hololens case study
2. Content
• who we are and what we do
• complexity, detail and automation
• solution on Revit CFE
• hsbTimber on Revit
• jump into the cloud: hsbShare
• from cloud to AR with Hololens
18. • projects share designs rules
• company specific solutions
o wall-wall corner
o wall-floor cleanup
o T-hanger
o shop drawing
o special set of machines
o BOM link and reporting
o production automation
• every project has some special needs
• occasional special project
customer POV <> hsbcad POV
complexity, detail and automation
33. • Full screen 3D project
browser
• Model hierarchy search
• Meta data ‘items’ tree with
full search, edit and create
• Responsive items to model
and model to item relations
34. Meta DataIFC 3D
3rd party
applications
repository
secured cloud
none 3D Info
Logical links:
pdf
xls
doc
jpg
…
/ inflate the bubble
My name is Kris Riemslagh
Co-founder of a company called hsbCAD
In construction the biggest money loss happens on site. Our customers achieve to build a house in 1 or 2 days. Of course, one can only do this with the walls, floors and roofs being delivered fully assembled.
Hsbcad delivers applications to make this prefabrication happen.
We have already application that work on the desktop, but we are dedicated to bring these to the cloud. That is our competitive edge.
Hsbcad has 30 years of experience.
We have 30 highly motivated people on the payroll, and are active worldwide: in Europe, Japan, Canada, US
Basically we go wherever companies invest to automate their prefabrication of construction.
(Our focus is on cnc machines for wood processing. )
It is our mission to bring these prefabrication companies to the cloud.
We start where the architect stops.
We deliver a software solutions to the prefab industry to enable them to be free to construct any design, with any technology, and with any production system. Now and in the future. Thereby enabling them to position themselves in their unique market position.
What is offsite construction,
what is delivered on site
what information is needed,
explain the beam in the middle of the opening
Companies have specialized in production of precut CLT panels.
Often different project share designs rules
Company specific solutions
wall-wall corner
wall-floor cleanup
T-hanger
Shop drawing
special set of machines
BOM link and reporting
production automation
Every project has some special needs
Occasional special project
Our key value proposition. High level of customization.
Customer will not change his production process. Our software needs to adapt. Both on design and production level. Today an in the future. To support the present and future projects of the customer.
params of families do not adapt to environment
position is not dependent on env
elements cannot add data to other elements
Only solution is to do this by the application reacting through IUpdater and OnIdling.
hsbcad on Revit does that by allowing the families to express their dependencies: CFE
CFE Coded Family Extensions
a (small) piece of code / c# script that is attached to the family definition
Change own props to adjust own graphics
Change other element props eg length of beams
Change position and orientation eg reposition for T connection tools
React to environment eg beam orientation change
Inside hsbCAD world also add tools to hsbCAD beams to express machining operations
CFE Coded Family Extensions
a (small) piece of code / c# script that is attached to the family definition
Change own props to adjust own graphics
Change other element props eg length of beams
Change position and orientation eg reposition for T connection tools
React to environment eg beam orientation change
Inside hsbCAD world also add tools to hsbCAD beams to express machining operations
hsbTimber on Revit
hsbTimber on Revit with direct link to cnc machines
Basically same question Autodesk is trying to solve
Luckily hsbCAD has been so much more than selling software: we provide solutions to the needs of our customers
Make our customers believe in us being able to pave the road for them
We have to be on the edge ourselves.
Cloud Accelerator program
- Summer 2015
- Cloud is the future!!
LMV Technology (start point hsbShare)
AutoCAD I/O (process DWG)Reverse engineer solid to CNC-files (hsbCAD I/O)
Challenge:
How can a software company shift their business from selling desktop apps to deliver cloud services.
-> not only selling: provide solutions to solve customers needs
-> needs change
-> take customers on journey into future
-> convince customers that you are the right partner => be innovative
Leverage the tools Forge is providing https://developer.autodesk.com/api/
Traditionally printed on large paper
Is actually the 3d model with lots of detail…
The 3d model can be valorized by making it available downstream:
* Optimizing the construction process => require customization
* reporting issues in context
* be the base geometry for all documents
- excel, bom, shopdraw, bom, tech doc
* be the model that is handed over to owner
Traditionally printed on large paper
Is actually the 3d model with lots of detail…
The 3d model can be valorized by making it available downstream:
* Optimizing the construction process => require customization
* reporting issues in context
* be the base geometry for all documents
- excel, bom, shopdraw, bom, tech doc
* be the model that is handed over to owner
It’s the corner stone of the information model, because it is so accurate.
It is in fact the only model that is accurate.
How to make it a smooth process:
-> from within the desktop app provide upload and manage flexibility.
Web based management
Project preview
Access control
Save
Currently we are relying on dropbox functionality for storing meta data. We will expand on this and offer alternatives
App’s.
Offline version running as mobile app
Support
Autodesk LMV (large model viewer) et Autodesk translation service enhanced support
‘logging’
Support of the version control system and logging system on meta data repository
3D
3D model versioning support
Metadata is
explorer like,
fully customizable structure
Normally templated for manual enriching
Automatically generated through apps communication directly with dropbox filestructure
To facilitate collaboration between the parties.
Future?
Aim to do framing in the Cloud
Generation of CNC files over the Cloud
One week after my colleague Craig Colomb in the US received his set of Hololenses, one of them was send to our office in Gent.
Wow, this device rocks! Once you have it on your nose, augmented reality feels so natural.
I could not resist diving into the API. So here are our first models brought in from hsbcad, just presented on the table in the office!
Starting from one of the samples, using Unity3d framework, C# scripting we brought in meshes, rendered, then, assigned transparent material to them…
One week after my colleague Craig Colomb in the US received his set of Hololenses, one of them was send to our office in Gent.
Wow, this device rocks! Once you have it on your nose, augmented reality feels so natural.
I could not resist diving into the API. So here are our first models brought in from hsbcad, just presented on the table in the office!
Starting from one of the samples, using Unity3d framework, C# scripting we brought in meshes, rendered, then, assigned transparent material to them…