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Automation of Design and Drafting for Manufacturing of Panels for Wood Frames of Buildings

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. / Construction Engineering and Management

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:AEU.10048/1443
Date11 1900
CreatorsAlwisy, Aladdin
ContributorsDr. Mohamed Al-Hussein, Associate Professor Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Simaan AbouRizk, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Alireza Bayat, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Saeed Behzadipour, Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Dr. Saad Al-Jibouri, Associate Professor Department of Civil Engineering in the University of Twente, the Netherlands
Source SetsLibrary and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Languageen_US
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis
Format7128638 bytes, application/pdf
RelationAlwisy, A. and Al-Hussein, M. 2010. Automation in design and drafting for modular construction manufacturing utilizing 2D CAD and parametric modeling. In Computing in Civil and Building Engineering, Proceedings of the International Conference, Nottingham, UK, Nottingham University Press, Paper 167

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