Automation of Design and Drafting for Manufacturing of Panels for Wood Frames of Buildings
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Dr. Saad Al-Jibouri, Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering in the University of Twente, the Netherlands
Dr. Simaan AbouRizk, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Dr. Saeed Behzadipour, Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta
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Industrialization creates new requirements for design. Designers need to consider not only building performance, but also production plan needs. This requires a well-structured Building Information Model (BIM) to support the manufacturing needs for design and drafting. BIM, in combination with CAD tools such as AutoCAD and ArchiCAD, can be used for this purpose. These, however, are not sufficient to support the level of detail needed for the manufacturing process. The proposed research establishes a methodology for the automation of design and drafting for the building manufacturing of residential facilities based on the platform construction framing method. The proposed methodology has been incorporated into a computer model called MCMPro, which was developed using Visual Essential for Applications (VBA) as an add-on to a CAD model. MCMPro incorporates BIM technology based on CAD parametric modelling and manufacturing requirements in a 3D-model, in order to generate sets of shop and fabrication drawings.