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25 ALLPLAN Reviews
1) Its flexibility: from very quick architectural design to construction modelling, from buildings to detailed joinery, from new buildings to historical ones.
2) The way information is organised: the "building structure" is one of the smartest feature to manage BIM
3) Interface with spreadsheet: we've developed a system to estimate the cost of the building, progress of work, etc, linking the model with third party pricing book (e.g. RICS).
4) Its scalability: allows to be very efficient as one-man-band or working as a team
I start using Allplan after graduating and I never stopped. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Modules like "stair" which have been pretty much unchanged in the last 20 years...
Unfortunately is not well-know as other software. However, having previous experience as teacher at the University, I always managed training in-house.
Few things I would like to see in the next releases:
1) Developing further modules for timber and steel construction (boosting the use of macro and smart parts)
2) Introducing a basic module to calculate U value and Glaser Diagram (that is a very straightforward improvement) would be beneficial.
3) Introducing a module to do the daylight calculation (something like Velux Daylight Visualiser..)
4) introducing a basic module for MEP as standard feature for architecture Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like a lot the interface ALLPLAN uses. I find it a lot easy to grasp, even if you are a beginner user. It is pretty user-friendly, without needing to do extensive research about how to do things (for basic tasks at least). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like using ALLPLAN by itself. But I cannot not admit that it is being brutally replace by other BIM software. It is getting more and more difficult to find producers that develop ALLPLAN libraries and also even searching the net for a solution to some problem is becoming quite impossible given the fact that more and more people are using said other BIM software instead of ALLPLAN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I like the structure of the program, and the freedom to open different drawings (editable and non-editable) at the same time. The drawings can be used as reference or as primary file. The platform is able to co-working at the same time thanks to the structure. And the structure of ALLPLAN is clear, easy to use and very easy to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Not being able to work from separate computers (from physically different places) on the same project at the same time smoothly. With large files and with lot of data ALLPLAN can be slower at the editing. There are failures what don`t have any reason and can cause dataloss. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The perfect organisation of all the files related to the project. It really helps to be efficient especially with big projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
If you change the computer, it could be tricky to recover all the projects properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Allplan has all the features to create prefebricated elements. And most of all we can create detailed drawings for every single elements in buildings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
If we edit anything 3d related in the project we are facing overlaping problem and this does not look good in presentation so we have to correct the overlaping again and again. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
BIM capabilities, easy and efficient measurement and export of quantities, efficient actual drafting tools and workflow, capabilities to organize and tackle big projects, capabilities of collaboration between all involved in the construction process Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
for actual architectural conceptual or first design not an ideal tool in comparison with, for instance, sketchup, although great for error-proofing of designs in a second step. Creation of macros, although a very powerful tool, suffers from an awkward interface. Data connection with/to some very popular local/national cost/offer management systems is lacking or poor/awkward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Since also reinforcements can be modelled in 3D it is much more easy to have an overview of the reinforcement positions in densely reinforced zones such as joints and overlapping zones. Since severall design codes are included it simplifies the process of reinforcement detailing. Another plus is that several cross sections, materials and element types are already implicitely defined in the software, whereas for more complex structural systems with non-regular cross section types it is possible to defined manually the elements. Generation of drawings is fast and easy. If the structure is properly modelled the list of quantities can easily be exported by choosing different filters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The pricing for someone who is at the beginning of his/her career is not so friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
flexibility concerning the changes implementation, fast drawings generation, accurancy, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
sometimes collapses without the reason and it's not possible to restore the project, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
With Allplan Engineering, models can be created quickly and quite accurately. Reinforced concrete drawings can be generated straight from 3D model including bill of materials.
Different formats of BIM files can be imported/exported. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Detailed automatic drawings sometimes need to be supplemented manually. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
What I like about all plan is that everything is very intuitive, the settings and the options are where you expect them to be. Once you know what you’re doing, every task becomes 20 times easier and faster Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sometimes, the properties of the reinforcements change without asking the user and you’d have to verify each element one by one before printing them out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
