Significant time savings in many areas

Through a variety of adjustments, a fundamental acceleration of various work processes was achieved, which significantly improves the handling of large, complex and detailed projects with many associations:

• opening a project and editing drawing files
• modeling of free-form geometry
• the processing speed of complex components
• working with rooms and finishes
• reinforcement objects
• views and sections
• update legends
• reports

Improved teamwork with Allplan Share

With demanding projects, waiting times could already occur with only one user. In combination with teamwork, the requirements are again significantly increased since the changes of many users have to be processed almost simultaneously.

In order to reduce communication via the Internet to an absolute minimum when using Allplan Share, up- and downloads and queries that are not absolutely necessary have now been consistently avoided through change tracking and intelligent caching of files and information. Further acceleration could be achieved by using multi-threading and switching to mass operations. All in all, working with Allplan Share has once again been significantly accelerated, enabling you to work productively even with less than optimal Internet connections.

Optimizations for the nodes

In Allplan 2021, existing nodes for Visual Scripting were optimized and new nodes were added. Allplan objects can be selected interactively for editing. The filter functions have been extended and there are new options for assigning, modifying and removing attributes. Instead of using the library, nodes can now be inserted directly by double-clicking on the canvas. This speeds up the creation of scripts considerably. The shape, dimensions, position and material of structural objects can now be controlled using Visual Scripting.

Improvement when working with finishes

In Allplan 2021, floor and ceiling finishes are not displayed schematically anymore but with real dimensions, including in animation and in hidden view. Object snaps and dimensioning are possible for all layers defined in the finishes. This significantly improves working with finishes.

Various innovations in the field of reinforcement

Allplan 2021 provides functions for subsequent splitting and reconnecting of rebars, for example, for inserting or moving openings or for considering concrete pours. In addition, the functionality for placing reinforcement along one and more paths has been optimized: Negative concrete covers, negative projections, and offsetting to edges with several path elements are now also possible.

As a result, the arrangement of reinforcement in challenging situations can be controlled even more precisely. For area reinforcement and polygonal layouts, you can add additional fold lines at a later date and efficiently reuse complete reinforcement layouts via the clipboard or via the library. And when rearranging reinforcement mark numbers, you can now work with tolerances. This combines similar bending shapes and improves the clarity of steel lists and construction site logistics.

Optimization of walls, roofs and structural framing

In structural framing you can now modify multiple properties for several columns and beams in a single step and apply favorites to several objects simultaneously. You can now define a wall style for walls with the same composition. This helps to structure information better, simplifies change processes and improves data exchange. In addition, the editing options for roof surfaces were further expanded. Roof surfaces can now be added and removed again.

Attribute improvements

Attributes can now have the status "undefined". This enables you to see immediately which attributes are already assigned and reduces the risk of incorrect information. Allplan attributes now also support formulas so that values from other attributes can be combined or calculated. This reduces the input effort and inconsistent information is avoided.

Office standard for BIM-compliant operation

Allplan 2021 offers the new BIM EASY office standard, which supports BIM-compliant operation. It contains ready-to-use wizards for architects, engineers, planners and detailers with predefined format properties, attributes and building structures that can also be customized.

Interaction of Allplan and Allplan Bimplus

To optimize the interaction between Allplan and Allplan Bimplus, you can now start the BIM Explorer directly from Allplan without any intermediate steps. This makes it possible, for example, to view your own model together with models from other disciplines (e.g. MEP) and place them in the overall context. In addition, downloading reinforcement from Allplan Bimplus for further detailing in Allplan is now supported.