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Food Service Equipment meets the BIM World

Food Service Equipment meets the BIM World

Customer challenge

The key challenges were adoption of Revit as a valid design software solution and creation of custom families and schedules that would autofill schedules. Clark Food Service Equipment was currently doing everything in AutoCAD and had to make all of their schedules with Mtext. Food service equipment is not readily available in the Autodesk library so all families had to be custom made, along with parameters and shared parameters to meet a successful deployment of Revit.

Project goals

The main goals of this project were: 1. Prove and provide to the service team that Revit, in their unique situation, was plausible and will save time after the family and template creation process 2. Automatically integrate custom families and personalised schedules 3. Automate the previously manual process of returning to schedules for changes to their projects 4. Achieved company standards through the use of templates

Solution

Training was provided in the classroom and at the customer's location. Revit Architecture Fundamentals, BIM Management and Family Creation and Revit Worksharing were all covered. We spent a specific day to go over Revit families at the customer location. We helped them build each family from scratch to match the customer's AutoCAD symbology and meet industry guidelines. Shared parameters needed to be created so that basic and detailed information would populate in multiple schedules.

Business outcome

The ability to create and utilize intelligent families allowed the Clark team to streamline their kitchen designs. As more of their staff became familiar in the day-to-day use of Revit, the time needed to create kitchen layouts/schedules and getting their final deliverables "out the door" decreased substantially. Producing Revit deliverables helped them bid additional jobs and the time savings allowed them to increase their workload and subsequently help drive higher sales.

Conclusion

What was unique was the Revit in the food service equipment industry: taking the time to understand their business and providing them with a solution to help them grow into the future was very important; bringing the team up to speed on how to use Revit and eventually being able to help them generate difficult Revit families that will ultimately shape their design business moving forward was fulfilling; having the customer's trust in the solution and willingness to learn made this a success.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 8
  • 2020-02-04

    Autodesk solutions

  • Revit

    Services provided

  • Technical Support
  • Product Training
  • Business Process Assessment & Documentation

    Customer industry

  • Architecture, Engineering & Construction
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