Topic number two. Seeing a little bit of the software in action. I wanted to give everyone in the class a sense for really sitting behind a desk and what this looks like from an individual user perspective, what it means from a workflow overall, and ultimately, what you might see and feel on the screen. In this case, I'm taking the example of one of the inputs that we mentioned before which was just a simple PDF underlay, brought into a system overall and then utilizing, in this case, the software is something called Designline, to trace out and use the intelligence that you created about how the parts come together to simply trace over a system and a design and place those items in the model. So in this case, you'll see, zooming in and really isolating an individual component of the system, giving a size break, telling the software specifically which type of system we need to use. And then, from there, it's as simple as tracing over the system, making the appropriate elevation changes where necessary, connecting parts. But as you can see from the screen it's as simple as tracing over, and really revising, recreating the design overall within the 5D estimating software. Making the necessary size changes, etc. In a minute you're going to see this software ultimately fill in 3D, which is making all the necessary connections in parts. That go with the system that was just traced out. That's not something that the estimator has to individually do and define for each connection. That's part of the work we've already done in setting up the software in the first place. In this example right here, it's filled in. With 3D you can see hangers in there. We'll get a little bit closer view later on. Overall, the necessary pieces and parts to make a complete and whole run for this element of the system. You can see it asymmetric view. It's translated the necessary elevation changes into the required fittings to make those changes It's automatically put in the hangers that are appropriate and has insulated the system if it requires insulation. All of this is what you would be putting in the background to configure this system. What you'll see next then, is part of the power of the software and we have a parallel line running in In the similar size, one's supply, one's return. Instead of tracing that whole system out again, the estimator can just simply offset that system, that piece of piping, change, obviously, from supply to return, fill the design line with 3D, and there you have the sistering component overall with far less work than it took to trace it out in the first place. You can see about how fast the individual estimator is going. The level of efficiency that estimating within modeling software periods. I mentioned before, a second potential input model is to take a, what is authored all ready in Reddit, and just bring it directly into the modeling software. In this case you'll see a video just simply creating a Revit export from Revit itself bring that into the Autodesk Fabrication Suite. And. Letting Autodesk Fabrication Suite make the connection between the families carried in and the necessary services and individual pieces of parts. Within the auto desk fabrication suite over all. It creates efficiencies if you're designing in house and you use Revit the hand off between the engineering and estimating department can be made smooth, or if there are individual organizations obviously working on a construction project. The hand off can be carefully crafted for the type of project delivery to make that a smooth transition and actually bring the intelligence created during the engineering phase straight into an estimate and define cost basis from that point. On the screen right now, you can just see the definition. The translation, the quick translation made between the systems that are included as Revit families in the overall model, into the services that are existing within the Autodesk Fabrication Suite. And it's obviously filled in with all of the necessary pieces and parts. Again, having all of the cost and labor that's been set up in the system. The power of this methodology, whether you traced over a PDF design mine or you brought in a Revit model is that changes can be made on the fly. This is especially powerful in the case of IPV projects where we're really thinking integrated project delivery about multiple options and opportunities for project. Being able to switch system types. And quickly get a view on the impact across this labor. Gives the overall project team that level of information to make decisions with. In this case you're going to see an estimator taking off, or taking a system, that supply system that we saw before and changing it from a mechanical perspective from a soldered copper joint to a press fit joint. So, what would be a labor intensive process in the field of soldering a joint from a system perspective to a less labor intensive System in Press Fit which does in fact cost more from a materials perspective though. So the software is just a matter of changing, right-click and changing the actual service and switching out the difference systems and ultimately to refill the entire design line and actually show, let me just pause and go back there for a second, the cost differential overall from adding from one system to another. So as stated before, it really in this case is the difference between soldering a joint and press-fitting a joint overall. There's multiple different trades for which this type of efficiency can be evaluated overall. In this particular case, we can see that switching out from the soldered type joint to the press fit joint has made a corresponding difference in the, a slight raise in the overall amount of material cost, but then a decrease in the install cost, bringing the overall extended cost down a little bit. This is just a small run but it gives you a demonstration of how exactly the software is creating the efficiency. In the past it had you taking the system off with a digitizer, had you taking it off by hand and just tallied the results in a spreadsheet. Making a wholesale system change, essentially meant going back into the software you originally used, kicking off the system again in the new type and service that you wanted. With 5D estimating it's a simple click to change and shift on the fly, as it were. Once you've created the input, obviously the software's connecting those things, making the necessary adjustments from an overall material and cost estimating perspective. And from there, it's a matter of bringing that output either into the system to summarize, and I'm showing a quick screenshot similar to the one we saw previously with the size in the system type changes. And you can obviously use what's embedded within most estimating software to achieve at a gross level. An overall estimating view. In fact a lot of times our estimators will sit and check in real time where the costs are heading. But ultimately the output is taken to some further system, both in terms of ease of use for other potential players within your organization. Whether it's management, project managers, to really interface with the overall 5D estimating software. It makes sense of the data in whatever terms it is. If it's from an overall square foot perspective, if you GCE or contractor or architect or engineer or if it's much more detail then you're looking at the labor overall. From a trade perspective. And in our case, and I'll just show you by way of example. We do like to bring the overall estimate out into an Excel spreadsheet. We adjust the materials within the software itself. As I mentioned before with the automatic connection to a pricing service. Discount within the software for the local supplier relationships. But specifically keep the estimate of the labor within the software at one o. And we do that for a specific reason, so that we could take the estimate out of the 5D estimating software, bringing it into Excel where other individuals can collaborate over the view on the project. Whether or not there's some difficulties with a certain area it's a high reach area or it's a complex area where there will be mutil-trades stacked over one another where the view on productivity and the estimate needs to be adjusted per the specific condition. So we'll take it into an Excel spreadsheet in order to really let a lot of people collaborate and make sense of it. But it's done in a two-screen scenario where the individuals are visually looking up on the model on one hand, and then looking at the spreadsheet and making necessary corrections on the other. In this particular case, you're just seeing a summary on the spreadsheet. And you can do things like built-in visual control, this spreadsheet's telling us, hey, there's something different about this estimate. Maybe you've filtered some data. Maybe there's some overall element. There's something that, in the model, didn't get estimated correctly and the spreadsheet is just telling you, hey, double check here. You can do things like that from a work flow perspective, and then you can dial in specifically and get exact with overall estimating. So, a team can come together, and in this case, grab that data. And parcel it. Query and then break it down into the different areas of the project perhaps. Where that, what type of portion of the system? Mains above ground, branches above ground. Size breaks, etc. And then be looking at detailed data about that system for that specific instance. And in our case, the relevant information is the amount of pipe, amount of fittings in the system, amounts of hangers overall. And the individuals can from there just take a look, and make specific adjustments for that area of the building and adjust their entire estimate as they go down through, and really make sense of what they have on the screen. The other benefit too though is that when you bring it into something like an Excel spreadsheet, you can then make a whole and complete estimate. For the things that simply won't be modeled. You see here simple examples like trailer hookup, planning, copying, coordination services, equipment rental, the types of things that we're not going to model in 3D. Overall, but are very significant to the overall estimate. So, putting it out into some ability to interface the arts part of estimating with the science of estimating from the model.
