Cadwork Engineer

Last updated
Engineer
Developer(s) Cadwork informatik AG
Stable release
30 / 2023
Operating system Windows
Type BIM
License Proprietary
Website www.cadwork.ch

Cadwork engineer is a transportation corridor building information modeling software developed beginning in 2004 by Cadwork informatik AG in Switzerland. Engineer is notable in that when combined with cadwork Lexocad, it is one of the few 'BIM' infrastructure softwares. [1]

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Technical characteristics

An early adopter is Marti Group, which implemented cadwork Engineer in the BIM configuration on a civil engineering project in the Baselland Canton. [2]

Engineer files are named with the extension .2dr.

Engineer includes modules:

Engineer provides automatic calculations:

Interfaces:

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References

  1. Ben Kron "Open BIM Forum: Going Deep," baublatt, 02/19/2019. https://www.baublatt.ch/praxis/open-bim-forum-in-die-tiefe-gehen
  2. Marti Group, Civil engineering BIM, youtube, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KrD6PT34QQ