Cadwork Engineer is a transportation corridor building information modeling software developed beginning in 2004 by Cadwork informatik AG in Switzerland. Engineer is notable in that when combined with cadwork Lexocad, it is one of the few pieces of 'BIM' infrastructure software.
Technical characteristics
An early adopter is Marti Group, which implemented cadwork Engineer in the BIM configuration on a civil engineering project in the Baselland Canton.2
Engineer files are named with the extension .2dr.
Engineer includes modules:
- Roads
- Motorways
- Railways
- Junctions
- Roundabouts
- Point clouds
- Steel reinforcement
- Bridges
- Topography and maps
- Geographic information systems
- Theodolite interface
Engineer provides automatic calculations:
- Clothoid curves
- Three-radius curves for railway
- Horizontal and vertical jointures
- Truck trajectories
- Earth triangulation
- Retaining wall
- Earth Embankments
- Complex profiles with borders, banquettes, and dividers
- Topographic edits
Interfaces:
- Lexoview is guaranteed with Open Inventor format.
- AutoCAD is guaranteed with DWG format.
See also
- Virtual design and construction
- Industry Foundation Classes (IFC)
- Civil engineering
- Construction engineering
External links
- Official website
- cadwork ingenieur YouTube tutorials.
References
Ben Kron "Open BIM Forum: Going Deep," baublatt, 02/19/2019. https://www.baublatt.ch/praxis/open-bim-forum-in-die-tiefe-gehen https://www.baublatt.ch/praxis/open-bim-forum-in-die-tiefe-gehen ↩
Marti Group, Civil engineering BIM, youtube, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KrD6PT34QQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KrD6PT34QQ ↩