You may have heard in the news about Façade Design for Fabrication, an offering recently announced by Dassault Systèmes.

Early release clients are thrilled with the impact it’s had on their services, so we thought we’d provide an overview to the AEC Café community.

What is the Façade Design for Fabrication offering?

Façade Design for Fabrication is what we call a “solution experience”—a set of applications built on our 3DEXPERIENCE platform. The following video provides an in-depth tour of the program’s revolutionary capabilities:

The solution is comprised of industry-specific processes. Together they enable AEC professionals to produce high-performance buildings more efficiently and effectively.

Here’s how:

Process Efficiencies

For architects and planners, the Integrated Planning module helps you quickly iterate through concepts and validate requirements in real time. You will notice a significant drop in process redundancies, dead-ends, and rework.

Early data-driven decisions can be made based on constructability of the design, before changes become cost-prohibitive.

Then, the Façade Detailing module helps you extend your model through to fabrication, and break it down into assemblies that clearly convey the design intent.

Shop drawings and BOMs (Bill Of Materials) are created automatically from the façade designs, saving time and reducing the potential for error.

Single Source of Truth

“Same page” authoring tools provide a master version of the design for the entire project team. Each object is detailed into a fabrication-ready model, and shop models are created from a single 3D version of the truth.

Modeling from concept through fabrication happens within a single environment.

Plus, the single source of truth is on the cloud, immediately available to all parties.

Collaboration

Without strong collaboration and coordination, a project can result in tremendous waste and cost overruns. Façade Design for Fabrication fosters collaboration among design, construction, fabrication, and building owners, counteracting the silos created by the industry’s point solutions.

Bringing the client into the collaborative innovation space allows teams to gain immediate feedback and ensure projects are on target.

With fast and timely feedback, teams make better decisions earlier in the design process and throughout the building lifecycle.

The following are screenshots from a Façade Design for Fabrication demo:

3DEXPERIENCE™ project dashboard includes project status, material lists, site map, social communities

Share concepts with stakeholders and get feedback online

Evaluate building project costs with Façade Design for Fabrication

An assembly template creates an instance of the assembly within Façade Design for Fabrication

Completed design in the 3DEXPERIENCE™ Platform

For more information on Façade Design for Fabrication:

Façade Design for Fabrication: Connect your design data from concept through fabrication for collaborative, industrialized construction

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