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Autodesk Tandem is designed to help AEC firms and owners start building digital twins into projects, right now. Through a continuous program of innovation and enhancements, discover how Tandem will pave the way for the industry to create and deploy true digital twins.
Product Update – IFC Import Feature
Autodesk Tandem now offers the ability to import Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) files when uploading models. The format establishes international standards to import and export building objects and their properties. IFC improves communication, productivity, delivery time, and quality throughout the life cycle of a building. It reduces the loss of information during transmission from one application to another, with established standards for common objects in the building industry. Expanding Tandems’ supported model formats is critical in enabling users that leverage other authoring systems beyond Revit and in markets that require open BIM exchange.
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Autodesk Tandem FAQs
A digital twin captures the bidirectional flow of information enabling the physical asset and digital data to work hand-in-hand and in tandem, resulting in a real-time up-to-date digital model that has a true understanding of the operational characteristics of the physical asset.
The Autodesk Tandem initial product release will be available worldwide in English only. We plan to incrementally release updates in other languages in the months following the product’s commercial release.
Autodesk Tandem will support the handover of a descriptive digital twin that describes all of the assets, spaces, and systems an owner needs to manage.
Autodesk Tandem currently supports Revit 2017 and later, as well as IFC files when uploading models. We are utilizing the Forge Data Pipeline to ingest design data and over time will support other Autodesk formats. Specific formats and timing will be driven by customer input.
Yes, this IoT-type integration is under consideration for the longer term.
A tagged asset is any valuable object that is part of the handover package. Within Autodesk Tandem these objects are uniquely classified with an asset or space type and tagged with additional data. Autodesk Tandem’s Digital Handover workflow enables customers using BIM to deliver a digital replica of the facility with a well-defined information model to accelerate operational readiness. Within that information model, each asset is classified and tagged with additional data according to the owner’s requirements which includes links to the necessary documentation for that asset.