It is fully parametric, allowing a bridge to be quickly designed by creating key alignments and cross-sections, and enabling modifications to be easily made by tweaking the parameters (Figure 2). In contrast, Allplan Bridge is a “built from scratch” BIM application that was launched in 2018 specifically for bridge design. Allplan Civil Engineering is a dedicated application built on top of Allplan that is specifically targeted towards civil projects, enabling concrete structures with complex geometries to be fully modeled, reinforced, and detailed. In my “ BIM for Infrastructure Software” article published last May which discussed the solutions that were available for model-based infrastructure design, ALLPLAN’s solutions featured prominently, including Allplan Civil Engineering and Allplan Bridge.
Examples of Allplan implementation in Europe: Pompidou Art Center in Metz, France (top image) Stuttgart 21 train station in Stuttgart, Germany (lower image).įor its Infrastructure Day event, ALLPLAN focused primarily on its infrastructure design solutions, both for the product updates and the customer implementations. It is now one of the leading BIM solutions that are available to AEC firms designing buildings and infrastructure worldwide.įigure 1.
Along the way, it has evolved into a BIM solution, has expanded from buildings to infrastructure, and has extended its usage beyond Europe to several countries around the world. (The name of the company is uppercase to distinguish it from the name of the product.) Given its long history in the AEC technology industry and its origins in Germany, Allplan was the dominant CAD solution used by AEC firms in Europe, and it continues to remain so (Figure 1). For several years after Nemetschek was founded in 1963, Allplan was its flagship product, and it was only after Nemetschek expanded to acquire several additional AEC technology companies such as Graphisoft that Allplan was spun off into a separate company called ALLPLAN.
The implementation examples were presented by the AEC firms executing these projects, and they provided the opportunity not just to learn more about ALLPLAN’s solutions but also to learn more about the projects themselves, especially in countries that are not typically on the public radar such as Croatia and Romania.ĪLLPLAN itself is one of the AEC technology companies of the publicly traded Nemetschek group which is headquartered in Germany. Last month, the leading AEC technology vendor, ALLPLAN, had its annual Infrastructure Day event, in which the company showcased the latest developments in its solutions and highlighted how they were being used in infrastructure projects around the world.
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