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Design to Fabrication Workflows

Design to Fabrication Workflows

Customer challenge

Varney, Inc. is an industrial and commercial electrical contractor that has been delivering professional solutions including electrical installation and repair, HVAC, Plumbing, and Integrated System services to Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic region. Varney was endeavoring to do more projects which involved fabrication. They came to MicroCAD for help converting Revit data into fabrication level content.

Project goals

The Key Goals: 1. Provide Revit modeling services. 2. Educate on how to utilize the fabrication abilities in Revit. 3. Instruct on how to collaborate with existing fabrication solutions. 4. Train on how to manage and create fabrication content. 5. Explore Building Information Modeling (BIM) workflows for fabricators.

Solution

MicroCAD provided BIM modeling services to support Varney’s current projects as they were learning to use Revit to create fabrication level content. MicroCAD provided customized training for Varney's team of designers on how to implement models that were received from architect partners as well as how to embellish those models to a level of development that is suitable for fabrication.

Business outcome

With the solution of design to fabrication, it enables the designers at Varney to directly explore a wide range of non-conventional material processes. By exploring all options, they can be sure to have the optimal design. This design optimization greatly reduces the cost of Varney's manufacturing.

Conclusion

MicroCAD and Varney have worked closely together for many years and on this project the partnership helped Varney improve their process and reduce costs.

Project summary

    Duration & delivery

  • 180
  • 2020-10-20

    Autodesk solutions

  • Architecture
  • Engineering & Construction Collection
  • Revit

    Services provided

  • Product Training
  • Technical Support
  • Business Process Assessment & Documentation
  • Solution Optimization Services

    Customer industry

  • MEP Engineering
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