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Affinity Overview

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Trelligence Affinity™ is software for modeling architectural programs and for creating schematic designs in conjunction with building projects. An integral part of the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process, Affinity automates the pre-design stage of the building life cycle and delivers on the promise of interoperability for planning architectural projects.

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Adding Value to the AECO Team

Created for owner/developers, architects, engineers and other AEC professionals, Affinity delivers unique value by continuously analyzing the schematic design options against the building program and requirements. This empowers the project team to make informed decisions early in the design process, reducing the time required for rework during the time-consuming detailed design phase. Affinity helps identify issues related to owner requirements and building codes before the project goes into construction where errors are even more expensive in materials and time. Clients also use Affinity for early-stage estimating and for assisting with go/no-go assessments. With Affinity as an accurate decision-analysis tool, the entire project team benefits.

Separating Planning from Detailed Design

For many building projects, the pre-design work is lead by team members with a different skill set than the design and CAD/BIM specialists. Moreover, today’s design tools do not offer the ability to capture detailed program requirements such as space adjacencies and abstract constraints. Affinity is an ideal tool for the client-facing architect or engineer who is not an expert in CAD and BIM modeling software. And the work done in Affinity can be integrated into the design tools without losing the information recorded in the program.

 Affinity Desktop and Affinity Plug-In Tools

As a new software product in the AEC and BIM space, Affinity is available as a Windows desktop application and as a plug-in to popular BIM design software.

Affinity Desktop – is the stand-alone software that requires no additional applications and is available today.

Affinity for Archicad – is a bidirectional and integrated plug-in to Archicad 9 and 10 from Graphisoft and is available today as a free introductory component of Affinity Desktop.

Affinity for Revit – is a bidirectional and integrated plug-in to Revit from Autodesk and will be available in Q4, 2006.

Affinity for Mac – is the stand-alone Mac version of Affinity that will be available before the end of 2006.

Affinity files can also be exported as DWG files and imported into the CAD software or estimation tool of your choice. This allows the design team to smoothly move from schematic to detailed design without recreating the initial plan.

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