Building Information Modelling

AEC firms around the globe are transitioning from 2D CAD Platforms like ACAD and Micro Station to 3D intelligent modelling in BIM. BIM technology provides a link between, design, construction and management along with improved productivity for easy retrieval of embedded data information. BIM support services provides you with an efficient way to transition from 2D platforms to intelligent modelling in order to reduce project cost, increase profitability and save time.

Following are some of the BIM support services:

• Building Information Model: BIM model for Architecture, Interiors and Engineering Projects. These files could be at any phase of the work such as schematic design, design development, construction documents or as built conditions. The file formats could be in the form of hand sketches, photographs, PDF’s, JPG’s, DWG, DWF’s, etc.

• 3D Visualization: 3d Models for renderings and animations. These models can also be used to study building geometry/massing and construction sequencing.

• Embedding/linking and extracting of various Information

• Conflict Detection: Identify conflicts amongst various design disciplines for delivering fully coordinated BIM model.

• Detail Library: Drafting details in BIM as a part of the project or as a separate library with customized line weights, hatch patterns, etc.

The design support services include schematic design, design development, construction documentation, structure, MEP/Architectural Information Coordination, conflict identification, CAD systems development, code compliance checks, record drawings, s-built drawings, shop drawings, CAD conversion/rasterisation.

The design support services provide the following advantages to the AEC firms worldwide:

• Allows you to focus on core business rather than production

• Reduce project costs and improve project margins by 50-60%

• Time Zone advantage

• Improvement in the delivery schedule by 40-50%

• Enable you to streamline operations during peak & lean periods

• No infrastructure investments

Providing services in CAD documentation, 3d modelling, Building Information Modelling & Engineering to AEC firms worldwide for various industry segments like:

• Commercial

• Residential

• Hospitality

• Retail

• Corporate

• Healthcare

• Institutional

• Recreational

Plasma screen televisions are only a few inches thick. This provides installation options that were not possible to do before. In addition to table-top stand mounting, you can hang your plasma television on a wall or from the ceiling, allowing you to enjoy home theater impact from a TV that doesn’t dominate floor space.

Conventional televisions by comparison take up far more space and are much more limited in placement flexibility. Current Plasma television models start at 3.25″ deep, and range in size from 37″, 42″, 50″, and now over 60″.

A plasma screen TV is sometimes called an “emissive” display because the panel is actually self-lighting. This TV display consists of two transparent glass panels with a thin layer of pixels sandwiched in between. Each pixel is composed of three gas-filled cells or sub-pixels, one each for red, green and blue.

A grid of tiny electrodes then applies an electric current to the individual cells, causing a gas (a mix of neon and xenon) in each cell to ionize. This ionized gas, or plasma, emits high-frequency UV rays, which stimulate the cells phosphors, and causes them to glow the desired color.

Here are some of the top brands that use plasma screen TV technology on their TV’s:

• Hitachi

The Plasma Screen TV is ideal for business applications including system displays for public facilities, traffic information services and related monitoring and control purposes. Hitachi displays are also being used in an increasing number of industrial sectors such as CAD/CAM, distribution, financial services, medicine and manufacturing, especially for presentations and as a multimedia-based educational display technology.

• NEC

These offer outstanding plasma screen TV image quality, wide source compatibility, complete input options and built-in audio, making the NEC HDTV Plasma flat screen TV a very effective multimedia presentation tool.

• Panasonic

The Plasma Screen TV offers unmatched visual superiority with the maximum level of brightness and 16.77 million colors. The plasma screen TV display makes sure your viewing is the best possible.

• Philips

Their plasma TV allows exclusive installation potential and a level of expediency never before seen in big screen televisions. Plasma display can be hung from the wall like a painting, or mounted on a stand for easy movement and optimal placement.

• Pioneer

Pioneer Plasma screen television utilizes new technologies, such as true medium imaging.

• Sony

Original plasma Screen TV displays include a lightweight, flat screen design increasing your adaptability and flexibility. This also includes a built-in scan converter, reproducing your images with digital accuracy.

Advantages of Plasma Screen Television:

1. Plasma screen TVs can be mounted on walls, hanging from ceilings etc.

2. Plasma TV screens can accept PC input, making them very versatile.

3. Plasma Screen Televisions have twice the pixels of a normal TV. That means ultra-sharpness when playing computer games or watching high-quality DVD video on your Plasma TV.

4. Plasma TV is viewing angle beats all other TV sets.

5. They have twice the resolution of normal Television.

6. Plasma TV screens are light and are usually 2-3 inch deep. This allows fitting of plasma TV screens to walls, ceilings and from suspended mounts from ceilings.

A person owning a Plasma TV would never go back to conventional TV sets. Not only do they perform very well and are very versatile, they also look really great. Not only is it a piece of an entertainment equipment, it’s also a decorative piece in your home.

Concept of computer generated images and their application

Computer generated images (known as CGI) have become very popular over the past two decades, and their importance and use will increase even further in the future because of their wide applicability in various fields. In the area of movies and films in general CGI has become an essential tool for filmmakers to bring their visions to the screen, be it by creating computer generated characters, props, sets, or just simplifying the process of image and sound editing. Film production (“Filmproduktion”) has been made faster and more efficient in the postproduction phase, offering an unprecedented level of freedom and quality.

The success of 3D computer animation and CGI in general started in the early 90s, when software bundles and processing power got more affordable even for smaller companies, and since then it turned into an accepted art form by itself. Over the years the technology evolved further and further, lowering the barrier between art and technology, and even allowing these two extremes to blend seamlessly.

Creation of 3D graphics

The creation of CGI and computer animation requires the use of specialized software products. Several bundles have established on the market, and it is mainly a question of personal preference which one to pick. After all the biggest factor in creating convincing digital worlds is the artist himself, whereas the software is merely the tool to transfer his creativity onto the screen.

As graphics software became more user-friendly and intuitive, the process of creating CGI started to resemble its real-world counterparts, like painting, sculpting, photography and filmmaking. The area of computer animation for example requires the same steps of “real world” filmmaking, with the addition of modeling sets, props and characters first. Bringing a mass of “digital clay” into shape to form a convincing character (or any other object or location to be shown, for that matter) is the initial step. Then cameras, lights and other entities are arranged in the virtual space, and animated if necessary. Computer animation might be called the digital successor to the classic Harryhausen-type stop-motion animation, although many other ways of animating virtual objects and characters (like physical simulation or motion-capturing techniques) have evolved over the years. The last step is called “rendering” and describes the process of collecting all information of the scene and light setup to process and output the final image through the lens of a virtual camera, either in the form of still frames, or a series of frames which create the illusion of movement.

Television, film production and commercials

Computer animation and three-dimensional visualization (“Visualisierung”) is widely used in television, commercials and film production. The “small screen” has proven to be the perfect field for experimenting with newly developed technology and concepts, and many artists working in the area of television and commercials have made their way to the movie business. With software bundles getting cheaper and more accessible, independent artists and filmmakers seized the opportunity to create their own films and short films, a development, which gave the visual quality of films an enormous boost in the mid 90s. In the area of film production computer animation slowly started replacing hand-made models and puppets, and even the genre of animated films has gotten a digital counterpart.

The area of commercials has grown into other branches like industrial documentations (“Industriefilm”) and corporate video (“Imagefilm”), and besides entertainment computer animation is also used in the fields of education, interactive media (“3D Online”) and military application.

Scientific visualization

Computer animation produced to present meteorological data, medical imaging, industriefilm, architecture and technology.

Product design and engineering

Designers and engineers use special CAD (computer aided design) software for designing, developing and manufacturing consumer and industrial products. Product visualization extensively uses modern graphics technology and with the help of computers, designs can be rotated, cut and manipulated even before getting manufactured. This greatly helps engineers visualize the product that they are designing.

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