Designing the future with less limitations

 

Creativity first

Novapoint’s philosophy is to let the user concentrate on the engineering and architectural result so that the projects become as optimized as possible without wasting too much time and focus on the tools and working methods. As an example in Novapoint we have integrated local standards and integrated 3D presentation that allow the user to automatically calculate and visualize the project as a part of the design process. No special skills of training are necessary for simple and fast design and presentations.

Combined with the Novapoint Multiview concept the designer is given the possibility to optimize his project with help of up to 6 types of similar views inside the Novapoint user interface environment. Plan, Profiles, Sections, Parametric/Numeric input/output, 3D/Virtual reality and Quantities/tables. From this 6 main types of similar information views there is possible toi use almost unlimited numbers of alternatives and customer wished views. This helps the user to see the result of the design work and take faster decisions directly.

As an example a part of a road could be dynamically adjusted with drag and drop in the plan view, and at the same time be adjusted by parameters in the numeric view, and the result of this is served in almost real time in the longitudinal and cross section view, or adjusted graphically here too. All results of design views could be continuously updated in the Virtual Reality view. The user can even maneuver directly in real time 3D along the road, carry out sight analyses or optimize the cut and fill. This is possible due to the common and advanced Quadri data model that managing the relations between the different data and calculations in an efficient way. The result is that the finished road, rail or terrain project has been optimized with better control and maximum creativity. The history of the tasks is as well taken care of and the user can easily roll-back to earlier version of design if not happy with the last work.

 

Flexibility without compromise
Novapoint functions and user interface is as well, if users choose, possible to use as a integrated solution with the leading CAD system platform from Autodesk (AutoCAD/Autodesk MAP). In the next version of Novapoint we as well work with tighter integration with other CAD platforms as Micorstation from Bentley. Even today Novapoint has the ability to communicate and share data with a number of systems and standards trough a powerful I/O functions with huge amount of input/output standards. This means the user extends Novapoint expert functions with hundreds of design and editing functions inside the CAD engine especially for drawing production and presentations even if a lot of automatic drawing and presentations of documents is handled automatic as built in and parametric setup inside Novapoint itself. The possibility to work integrated with open CAD standard platforms also insures compatibility with all type of I/O formats and 3rd party SW and HW.
Novapoint design functions and result documentation is atomized thanks to the Integration of Local Engineering Standards. The speed and interoperability is been taken care of through project data management independent of the CAD environment.