Planning Slots and Openings
Learn how to plan slots and openings, coordinate with all project participants and find an optimal result for your slot and opening planning.
Slots and openings: Your definition and coordination
Slots or openings are recesses or holes in walls and ceilings to lead pipes or ducts through them. In order to guarantee the static integrity of a building and to manage efficient routing, coordination between the building disciplines and the technical trades is essential when planning slots and openings. LINEAR Solutions offers you interfaces for communication and coordination of opening proposals.
The idea of the LINEAR Solution
With the functions of the discipline Opening Planning, collisions between building structure elements and building services equipment can be checked in a single step and opening proposals can be placed to resolve the collisions. The void proposals are initially provisions for voids. They are exported using the open standards BCF and/or IFC and can be communicated to the responsible persons. Building managers can use the LINEAR Void Manager to import the proposals and classify them with Accept or Reject. The classified proposals are saved and sent back to the technical trades.
- rejected (red)
- pending (yellow)
- accepted (green)
If necessary, alternative proposals are made for rejected proposals, exported as BCF files and communicated again to the responsible person. With this strategy, a solution for all collisions can be found using an iterative workflow. Accepted voids are implemented as provisions for voids in the model and marked accordingly in color. Rejected void proposals remain in the model for future traceability and planning, but can be hidden in view control.
The function can be used in floor plans, section views, building views, and 3D views. For floor plans, the LINEAR project template contains a view template for void planning. It can be selected when creating a new floor plan view. For 3D views, the Wireframe or Shaded visual style with semi-transparent representation of the architecture can be useful.
Terminology
For a better understanding, the documentation speaks of void proposals instead of provisions as used in the program interface. Slots and recesses in casting and core drilling are generally implied. If slots are explicitly meant, they are also referred to as slots.