New release advances design for manufacture and assembly in offsite timber construction
hsbcad has launched hsbDesign 27 for Revit, the latest release of the Revit-native software for offsite timber construction which can export fabrication data to a range of CNC machines including Hundegger, Weinmann, and Randek.
The new version includes several new features, such as integration with Autodesk Dynamo, reduced file size, multilingual support, enhanced project information output, and the ability to create custom item container labels.
Integration with Autodesk Dynamo, the visual programming add-in for Revit, is designed to help automate repetitive manual tasks and reduce potential errors.
Features include importing framing styles, overriding details, assigning elements to item containers, generation of item containers, and exporting.
hsbDesign 27 for Revit ‘significantly reduces’ the file size of projects without sacrificing detail, with numerous connections and edge detail families. There is now only one connection and one edge detail family, which can be easily customised or overridden.
The detail editor in hsbDesign 27 now features multilingual support for English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish, catering to a global user base.
Project information is now automatically incorporated into various exports using the default parameters, to help ensure ‘consistent and detailed’ documentation across outputs.
An enhanced formatting engine makes it possible for users to customise the labels displayed on item containers, to help ensure that essential information is immediately visible. For example, it can be customised to show the framing style alongside the item container number.
Elsewhere, users can now enhance architectural ceiling designs with a new framing style editor, manually recalculate blocking without regenerating the item container, and execute extensions on framed or manually adjusted item containers within the model.
