Revit Family Creation for Furniture Manufacturers

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Project in Brief
Challenges & Needs
Solution & Approach
Business Impact
Project Samples

Project Overview

Client Profile

Furniture Manufacturer

Location

Canada

Industry

Furniture Manufacturing

Inputs

Scanned Images with Dimensions

Deliverables

550 Revit Families of Products

Business Needs

A leading furniture manufacturer situated in Canada, faced challenges of displaying their range of products on their website as per actual dimensions, with full detail, variations and sub variations of material, size, color, shape etc. In order to align their design and modeling practices with other construction stakeholders, they needed to make their products part of the “new” BIM standards.

Challenges

Developing a fully functioning product from scratch in Revit while minimizing the file size.
Maintaining accurate geometry of the product and including a standardized format (.rfa).
Maintaining product integrity as per Autodesk Seek Standard.

Our Solutions & Approach

Revit Families of furniture products with exact product information and details required for material and finishes.

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Our team reviewed all the details of the input files of the images with the dimensions sent by the client and created a fully functioning BIM product from scratch in Autodesk Revit.
This included minimizing the file size while maintaining accurate geometry of the product and including a standardized format (.rfa) in order to maintain product integrity as per Autodesk Seek Standard.
Using Autodesk Revit, our BIM experts created more than 550 Revit Families of products like Chairs, Sofa and Table, Couch etc. with product information and detail for material and finishes including variations and sub variations.
Revit Family Libraries were created to display the entire range of products on Website with full detail, material and specifications as per BIM standards.

Structural model as input

Structural model with formwork

Business Impact

Hitech CADD Services provided more than 550 Revit Families of furniture products with exact product information and details required for material and finishes. The furniture manufacturer now had a whole range of furniture products on the company’s website with variations and sub variations of shape, size, color, material etc.
Hitech CADD Services enabled the client to be able to provide the required LOD (Level of Detailing) in models while interacting or coordinating with other stakeholders related to the project.
The manufacturer was able to create a library of products with all relevant data etc. that could be used as and when needed.