Structural work
An opening that shifts twenty centimetres, or an anchor that is no longer in the right place: on site itself that is hard to spot on a setting-out drawing. Field-Viewer places the foundation model next to the prefab element that will go on top of it later, so levels, anchors and openings are correct before the concrete truck arrives.
An opening for the drainage pipe sits twenty centimetres further along on the rebar drawing than on the prefab drawing for the wall that will go on top of it later. Anyone who only discovers that after the concrete truck has already been and gone breaks out a chunk of fresh concrete a day later.
Overlay the foundation model and the timber frame model in Field-Viewer, and those twenty centimetres jump out straight away, before the formwork is even up. You adjust the opening at the drawing table, not with a breaker on site.
Three things determine whether the prefab element will connect properly later, and you see all three in the same model.
The level of the foundation slab determines whether the bottom rail of the wall starts at the right height later. Read the level straight off the model instead of relying on a figure that has been retyped three times.
The position of every anchor bolt in the starter bars has to match the bottom rail of the prefab element that goes on top. If an anchor is wrong, you see it on the model before the concrete has set.
A sleeve for drainage or rainwater that is drawn in too late costs a core drilling in reinforced concrete afterwards. The model shows the opening already at the rebar stage, not only once the installation goes in.
A setting-out drawing on a damp A3 sheet quickly becomes unreadable on a busy site, especially with a few signatures and revision clouds on it. Field-Viewer does not replace that sheet with a screen showing the same drawing, but with the full model, in which you can measure a wall thickness or a centre distance yourself.
If you are not sure whether a basement wall has been set out according to plan, you simply check it in the model instead of guessing from an old setting-out drawing. On a concrete structure, where a wrong dimension cannot be milled away afterwards, that difference matters.
A rebar drawing sometimes still changes after the first pour, for instance because an opening gets moved. On site the old version can then still be lying around the site office for days.
Field-Viewer pulls in the published version as soon as it is ready, even on a tablet without its own BIM licence. You pour the concrete to today's drawing, not last week's.
No, Field-Viewer does not replace experience, only the paper drawing. You rotate, zoom and measure in the model the way you would on a drawing, without training in a BIM package.
Yes. You open an IFC export of a rebar or shell model the same way, whether it comes from Revit, Tekla or another package.
As soon as the drawing office publishes the new version, it is ready on every screen on site. Nobody pours concrete based on a drawing that has since been superseded.
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