You get real time plan, sections, elevations and isometric views, to create all the construction documents you need and, as you would expect, they are all linked for editing and automatic updates.Įdificius is a truly multidisciplinary tool with steelwork and MEP, as well as landscape all in the same environment. This thing is really fast too, either in modelling or bringing through a 2D drawing and quickly turning it into intelligent components. There are plenty of intelligent cursorbased tools to ensure modelling and geometry is aligned and dimensioned correctly.
The software is straightforward and uses the Windows ribbon interface.įirst set up a project and then simply start drawing in plan or in 3D with intelligent walls, doors, windows, with all the multi-representational variations that you can accept or define yourself. In general the company has a lot of brands with ‘us’ in the title, but more on this later. Now, I will admit that, for the uninitiated, the naming conventions of ACCA do take some getting used to. This price point is obviously a key advantage for anyone looking to get into BIM or to change modeller. And all that for something that is on a par with Revit in terms of functionality.
A full seat is just €599 a year, only a tad more than a yearly subscription for AutoCAD LT. BIMīefore even discussing the capabilities of the company’s core BIM tool, the first thing to note is the cost. However, it’s clear that the company has been developing the right tools, and it has certainly thrived in a highly competitive market, especially against the international reach and dominance of firms like of Autodesk with Revit. Primarily the firm has concentrated on the Italian and Spanish markets which is is probably why ACCA is not so well known in Northern Europe, despite having English versions of its Windowsbased applications. There is also a ‘living’ museum for digital design tools of the past, which the company had used, including some very early 8086 computers, Apple Macs, a ZX Spectrum, some ‘luggable’ laptops and my favourite, which was a CalComp Summasketch II digitiser, which I used many, many moons ago with AutoCAD Release 10.Įdificius offers a “4D-GANTT” environment for integrated project time and sequencing management The headquarters houses all development, sales and marketing, together with training and an auditorium. Situated within the Picentini Mountains, the company’s huge solar and wind powered headquarter building (built in 2017) is a living testament to its own design software and looks out onto the idyllic mountain-encircled vista, across the valley.
While we have always hoped that there would be new start-ups and fresh approaches within the authoring tool market, it came as a shock to be introduced to a firm, based in Italy, that had, for a number of decades, been developing professional applications for the European market.īased in Bagnoli Irpino, Campania, ACCA is about an hour’s drive inland from Naples airport. platform’ can collate project information in a spatially referenced master model based on IFCWe all know the main play ers in BIM and digital construction – Autodesk, Nemetschek, Trimble andBentley Systems. platform’ can collate project information in a spatially referenced master model based on IFCĪCCA’s cloudbased CDE ‘usBIM.