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A.O. Smith Offers 3D Revit Models Online For Specifying Engineers
May 19, 2009
A. O. Smith Water Products Co. is the first in the
water heater industry to offer specifying engineers and architects complete
access to 3D building information modeling (BIM) of its commercial water heater
and boiler products with Autodesk® Revit® software. By
visiting the company’s website (www.hotwater.com) specifiying
engineers can simply click on Literature/Revit Models to download the 3D Revit
models to be inserted into their building model or drawings.
Each
Revit product family file allows the selection of the individual model and its
associated database of critical installation information. Now, specifying
engineers can easily integrate an A.O. Smith product into their building
designs. Downloads are available at (www.hotwater.com/lit/revit/html).
Future
plans include making the A.O. Smith files available from the Autodesk “Seek
Site” where product models can be directly accessed from within the Revit
program.
“Due to
numerous requests from specifying engineers, we knew it was the right time to
offer this service,” said Howard Holliman, product manager for A. O. Smith
Water Products Co.
Revit
models are currently available for the Cyclone® Xi (BTH), VF Boiler (VW/VB),
Master-Fit® (BTR) and the Gold Series (DRE) product families. Engineers simply
open the file on the website, and then choose the model they want to specify.
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