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bocad Software Release 2023.4:
User Interface, Data Exchange,
Macros, IFC

September 2023

New bocad Update: Visual, User-Friendly, Connected

Bochum, 13 September 2023. The new update of bocad 2023 brings enhancements in user comfort, visualisation, collaboration, productivity, performance, and detailing. SCHULLER&Company has released the latest version of bocad version.

 

With the third major release in 2023, the construction software bocad addresses customer requests and resolves details to optimize performance, productivity, collaboration, and user comfort. New features, visual enhancements, optimized displays, simplified data imports and exports characterize this release. The most significant innovations include:


Icons: Enhanced Colour Contrasts and New Symbols

A significant change in the toolbar is the visual representation of icons. The icons have been made more distinct through color and contours, making them easier to identify with improved contrast. Users can now quickly grasp and select icons, facilitating construction and increasing productivity. bocad features over 12,500 icons across all trades, including steel, roofing, wood, glass, towers, and offshore, reflecting the depth of tools available. 


Collaborating through DATA Exchange and Change Marking

After importing a file into a project, it is now possible to continue editing the drawings. This allows multiple users to create drawings independently, ensuring that these drawings can be seamlessly continued by others at a later time. Lists or logs of changes are created with each positioning run to provide transparency.

 

Visual Representation: Automatic Color Assignment for Profiles and Materials

The visual differentiation of different profiles and materials enhances safety during construction, thereby increasing productivity. Automatic color assignment for profiles and materials provides orientation.

Macros for the Creating Ladder Rungs

The creation of ladders with U-profiles is supported by macros to increase performance.

Change Plate Thickness with a Sinlge Click

Changing plate thickness in a design can now be done with just one click, thanks to the new option for modifying the thickness of various sheets, enabling rapid plan adjustments.

 

IFC Export New Validation Function

During export, additional information in the log window now highlights faulty elements, allowing users to address them immediately.

 

bocad with Enhanced 2D Capability

The graphics performance of bocad has been extended by the option "copy". With the multicopy command, an element can now be copied in several places, saving time. Parts dimensioning is now also possible without an additional reference point, which increasing user comfort.

 

About bocad

bocad is a design and layout software for structural engineering. The software supports designers and engineers in creating digital models, integrating them into BIM projects, generating automatic nomenclatures, producing manufacturing and assembly drawings, and digital order files. bocad covers steel, wood, façade construction, offshore facilities, and mast construction. bocad's strength lies in the detailed elaboration from planning to the last screw in projects ranging from warehouses to the Guggenheim Museum. The software accurately models the connection of individual components, controls the planning, and provides item and purchase lists, ensuring timely production, delivery, and on-site assembly. bocad is used by well-known national and international companies. Prominent projects include the Ferrari Arena in Abu Dhabi, the Liège train station building in Belgium, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, The Oculus shopping center in New York, and Roots in Hamburg's HafenCity, Germany's largest wooden residential building following the Cradle-to-Cradle principle.

 

About SCHULLER&Company

CEO Helmut Schuller of SCHULLER&Company has extensive experience with bocad software, as he was responsible for bocad sales as Managing Director of AVEVA GmbH in Germany from 2012 to 2018. In May 2022, he acquired the construction division of AVEVA with his new company SCHULLER&Company and integrated the software into the portfolio for Digital Twins.

SCHULLER&Company GmbH supports companies from various industries on their path to digitization with a focus on data and document management and their visualization. SCHULLER&Company offers a portfolio for Digital Twins in the construction and industrial plant engineering sectors. The company, based in Eschborn near Frankfurt, was founded by Helmut Schuller in 2018. The team consists of highly experienced engineers with extensive expertise from engineering and software companies. With a deep understanding of processes and technology, they significantly improve customers' business processes, project execution methods, data utilization, and data migrations.

 

Website

bocad.com

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Contact

SCHULLER&Company GmbH, Mergenthalerallee 15 – 21 |  65760 Eschborn |

https://www.bocad.com/contact

 

Press contact

Imme Wöhrmann

SCHULLER&Company GmbH, Mergenthalerallee 15 – 21 |  65760 Eschborn |

P +49 170 27 29251imme.woehrmann@schullerco.com

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