ALLPLAN 2025

ALLPLAN 2025 (10/14/2024)
Productivity supercharged

Innovative and collaborative design to build workflows

ALLPLAN 2025 delivers innovative design to build workflows and real-time collaboration for architects, structural and civil engineers, fabricators and construction professionals to increase productivity and execute high-quality projects. Substantial time savings are achieved through AI-based visualization and accelerated and automated design capabilities for modeling building and infrastructure projects. Teams are empowered and performance increased through connected structural analysis processes, outstanding interoperability, advanced detailing capabilities for different materials and construction methods, and powerful cloud technology.

Benefit from:

  • AI-based visualization and automated design.
  • Connected structural engineering workflows.
  • Superior coordination of fabrication and construction.
  • Powerful cloud-based interdisciplinary collaboration.

Major new features in ALLPLAN 2025

You can find a detailed description of the new features and improvements in ALLPLAN 2025 HERE.

Architecture & General Workflows

New features & workflows

Building Modeling

  • New Window/door objects: ALLPLAN 2025 provides new, high-performant, powerful door/winnow objects, replacing existing Door/window smart part objects functionality. It streamlines the creation, modification and multi-editing of door/window objects, reduces data footprint, and offers more details and better quality. New functionalities also allows new design options for revolve Doors, double casement windows or doors to make planning more efficient and versatile. These objects can be also used in Facades to streamline tasks of designing building envelopes.
  • Multilayer Slabs: ALLPLAN 2025 offers multilayer support for slabs, enhancing detailing and execution planning to design sustainable buildings. The new multilayer handling saves time and simplifies workflows, reducing complex and time-consuming workarounds, offering unified creation & modification workflows via property palette.
  • New Ceiling system tool: The new parametric grid ceiling tool speeds up design and managing tasks associated to Celling systems. Parametric modeling of horizontal grids and fixtures support efficient coordination and planning process.

Information Modeling & Management

  • New Smart Catalog Editor: ALLPLAN 2025 offers new Smart Catalog tool, Integrated, international solution to manage material and information database, so to speed-up your project Quantity Take-Off and the accuracy of models within a BIM approach. Streamlined workflow ensure efficient model information enrichment in which Quantity Take-Offs which can be also processed effectively by local QTO solutions.
  • Information Palette: ALLPLAN introduces new, flexible, expandable, table based tool for comparing, checking, and modifying objects information. This accelerates information management, increases planning reliability and data quality.
  • Reference manager: New Reference manager provides effective overview and management of used referenced documents in particular ALLPLAN project, including smooth identification of different types of referenced and their location, significantly speeds up coordination tasks.

Interoperability & Collaboration Workflows

  • Connection to ausschreiben.de (by Orca): ALLPLAN now integrates with ausschreiben.de, the leading platform for product data-based tender information in Germany to further support open BIM workflows. Selected objects got URL link as attribute, providing access to the relevant product information and parameters.
  • Geo-referencing - map conversion support /US/: ALLPLAN now supports 2D coordinate transformation for US projects as a tech. preview. This improves collaboration between architects/engineers and ensures high-quality and reliable data for project information management.

General

  • Advanced Navigation and modeling in 3D environment: The navigation logic has been improved, allowing for easier rotation, zooming, and orientation in both 3D and 2D modeling spaces. This update aims to enhance the navigation experience and productivity for architects and engineers.
  • AI-based Visualizations with Veras: Create amazing visualizations of buildings in high speed using the ai-powered image-to-image generation engine of Veras. Gain architectural inspiration, surprise clients with breath taking visualizations of design variants. The tool creates value all along the planning phase without any training.
  • AI-based Visualizations with the AI Visualizer: Create amazing visualizations of buildings in high speed using the ai-powered image-to-image generation engine of the AI-Visualizer. With the text-to-image function you generate architectural designs and patterns with some text description (prompting). The tool creates value all along the planning phase, some prompt training is recommended.

Improved features & Workflows

Building Modeling

  • Advanced connections for Arch. components: ALLPLAN 2025 improves handling of connections between different wall type geometries, such as linear, circle, spline, and entity-based components. This speeds up building modeling and model adaption tasks, enhances the handling of connections between straight or curved components, allowing effective connection adoption between linear and circle walls, beams, and strip foundations, including support for multilayer components.
  • Improved Stair Modeler: ALLPLAN 2025 offer streamlined and unified Stair design workflow. Improving Stair modeller, creation and modification process is more effective, allows better flexibility based on adjustable run line position and additional direct object modification possibilities. In addition, stair railings can now be generated with a single click. We've incorporated various international standards and user feedback, resulting in enhanced flexibility in defining the walking line, stair numbering, and labeling. Quantity take-off`s and Reports can be now even more detailed due to improved structure of the Stair components, along with the ability to assign new attributes for Stair subcomponents.

Information Modeling & Management

  • Rule based Attributes based on IDS standard: ALLPLAN supports new standard IDS (Information Delivery Specification) by buildingSmart (tech. preview) to evaluate defined rules and requirements for the model attributes, speeds up and automate delivery of the right information to the digitalized models.

Interoperability & Collaboration Workflows

  • Content Connector - Integration to 3DFindIt: Content Connector tool extended with new integration, 3DFindIt platform from Cadenas, providing access to a comprehensive range of contend from tens of relevant AEC manufacturers. Search and import required content objects directly into your projects and streamline your design process.
  • Advanced Referencing of IFC files: Expands referencing capabilities for IFC to cover different use-cases, such as, selecting levels during inserting ifc, attribute overview ensures that coordination tasks are processed more efficiently.
  • IFC import enhancements: Enhanced IFC import possibilities, such as Selecting levels for import or 3D preview of IFC file improves and speeds up import workflows, helps user to focus on necessary information.

General

  • Views & Sections texture handling: Improved handling of textures in Sections and Views for consistent and high quality outputs. Outputs retain it's visual appearance as set in the animation viewport for elements. Section result texture's quality can be controlled for optimal plotting results via scale of the drawing file they are placed in.

Engineering and Prefabrication Focus

New

  • Place Bars along Surface: Automatically place reinforcement along any surface, including 2D slabs and walls, as well as 3D freeform geometry. This feature provides a significant productivity boost for reinforcement detailing and allows for faster and easier modifications.
  • Simple Portal Frames (Technical Preview): Introducing an easy-to-use tool to generate portal frames quickly by entering relevant parameters for grids, columns and beams. This feature simplifies and speeds-up modeling structural framing elements.
  • Freeform Formwork: Design fully customized formwork elements with one tool for both simple and freeform geometry. Data now be exported for digital production.
  • IFC 4.3 - Alignment - export: ALLPLAN exports IFC alignment, providing bridge BIM models and supporting the TPF-5 project in the USA. This export capability helps penetrate the US market and increases product awareness.

Improvements

  • Direct Object Modification for Reinforcement: ALLPLAN enhances the Direct Object Modification capabilities for reinforcement. This allows users to now select and modify bar shapes, schemas, circular and spiral reinforcement, rotated placements and area reinforen directly using dimensions, labels ans handles, increasing productivity and reducing the learning curve.
  • Automated Reinforcement Design and Workflow: Redesigned palette with unification of parameters and logic shared across automated reinforcement functions. Improved visibility and highlighting of currently edited reinforcement, automatic detection of surrounding objects (e.g., slabs) for reinforcement, optimized wall-to-slab connection reinforcement, and additional options for opening reinforcement. These enhancements reduce complexity, provide better control, and save time for reinforcement detailing tasks.
  • Property Sets support for Reinforcement: Reinforcement now has a support of Property Sets to ensure BIM compliant attribute management and efficient BIM requirement adoption.
  • Structural Framing: Structural framing objects can now be represented as axes to ease alignment with other objects. Besides, the grid functionality has been made more fleible.
  • Steel Connections: The modeling of connections within ALLPLAN has been enhanced to improve user experience and for conforming to Eurocode 3. This also provides better integration with SDS2 for connection design, detailing and fabrication.
  • Views and Sections: Views and sections have been improved based on user feedback, especially for precast customers anf former user of reinforcement views.
  • Fixtures: Improved administration and handling of fixtures, including better modification capabilities with handles and new placement possibilities.
  • Mark Numbering: Works now also for assembly groups and mesh welding systems.
  • Data Validation: ALLPLAN improves data validation for precast concrete elements, including precise volume and weight calculations as well as checking for correclty positioned lifting devices. This improves quality, reduces rework, and enhances safety during production and construction.

Construction Focus

New

  • More Formwork Systems: In addition to the in ALLPLAN 2024-1 released Meva Mammut XT and Peri Trio systems, ALLPLAN 2025 is offering the popular Peri Maximo wall formwork system.
  • Formwork Management: Implemented a GUI that allows users to select and un-select available panels for formwork. The placements have been adjusted to take limited availability into account. This feature increases adoption and feature parity with BIM²form on Revit.

Improvements

  • Groundwork Improvements: Updated the Excavation Pit Modeler to enable soil layers and individual reporting of smaller excavations. Adjusted the entry method for Bored Pile Wall and Soldier Pile Wall to work along standard ALLPLAN methods for linear components. These improvements provide value for architectural offices, general planners, and general contractors.

Civil Focus

Road Modeling

  • Swiss standard axis validation (VSS): With this version, it is possible to validate the alignment in the horizontal and vertical direction, with consideration of the user-defined design speeds. In addition, the road superelevation is checked according to the Swiss standard.
  • DTM to 3D solid: With this new function, 3D solids can be created quickly and easily from a terrain surface. The 3D solids created can then be used for excavation modeling, both for the ALLPLAN and for the CDS excavation tool.
  • 3D solid between two DTMs: With the possibility of creating 3D solids between two terrain surfaces, cut and fill volumes can be created not only numerically but also as graphical objects. This enables volumetric comparisons of variable surfaces (e.g. dump sites) and a comprehensible determination of applied quantities and excavated volumes.
  • Road intersection improvements: The improvements to the parametric road intersection relate to the calculation and graphical representation of the substructure, the visual representation of intersections as isolines and the output of 3D intersection objects in IFC 4.3 format.

Parametric Modeling and Bridge Analysis

  • Enhancement and improvements of the Navigation tree.
  • Analysis of precast girders: ALLPLAN Civil now includes comprehensive analysis capabilities for precast girder bridges. This feature encompasses the entire lifecycle of each bridge component, starting from the fabrication of the precast girder. The local history of each girder is integrated into the main model, ensuring accuracy and continuity. Additionally, it offers parametric reinforcement definitions for detailed reinforcement planning and execution.
  • Casting bed: A casting bed supplies the necessary information to model the local time history involved in the fabrication of a precast girder. Additionally, the casting bed defines the heat cycles used for curing the concrete during the fabrication process.
  • Construction templates: Construction templates are predefined setups that can be applied to any number of precast girders, defining specific production scenarios. These scenarios encompass various phases, including casting, curing, storing, transporting, and lifting of the girders. Utilizing these templates significantly reduces the time required to simulate the local time history of multiple girders. Each construction template can independently simulate its unique scenario.
  • Sub model view: The local time history of each precast girder can be viewed individually, providing users with direct access to all results from each step of the girder's production, up to its installation on the main structure.
  • Automatic parametric reinforcement: Introducing an advanced feature for creating parametric reinforcement bars that automatically adjust to changes in concrete structures. This functionality enables the automatic generation of reinforcement bars from simplified definitions. These definitions are versatile, serving both modeling and analysis purposes, ensuring a streamlined and efficient process for structural design and assessment.
  • New template for a smart reinforcement cage has been created: It is associated with a pretensioned precast girder with a predefined parametric I-shaped cross-section. This helps the user to have a smooth workflow between.
  • Slider groups: Implementing slider groups for free parametric modeling enables users to effortlessly adjust multiple sliders simultaneously. This enhancement streamlines the workflow, saves time, and provides greater control over modifications.
  • Easy generation of templates using custom tree: The custom tree functionality has been enhanced to support exports, enabling the easy creation of templates for use in other projects. Additionally, users can now incorporate cross sections and variation tables into the tree.
  • Extension of the outputs: Export material data to the Reporting tool database so that the user can create the material properties table by himself; Submodel result data to Reporting tool database - this will allow the user to see the results from the casting yard; Export construction schedule data to MS Project.

New features in the design and sectional assessments

The existing methods have been extended to include features required for the design and sectional assessments of pretensioned girders:

  • The acceleration of concrete hardening by means of heating. The functions for the concrete aging are adjusted based on measured values of concrete strength resulting in a determination of an equivalent age of concrete.
  • New option to calculate all dependent material values based on user-defined concrete strength and formulas given in the respective code.
  • Pretensioned strand materials with relevant properties have been introduced.
  • Acceleration of steel relaxation due to elevated temperature during concrete curing is taken into account.
  • Algorithms for sectional design and assessments are extended to include conditions applicable to the pretensioned 1D members according to EN codes (Standard EN, Austrian, French, German, Polish, Spanish, and UK annexes) and AASHTO LRFD.
  • The sectional design and assessments are adapted for the conditions in the transmission (EN)/ transfer (AASHTO) and anchorage (EN) / development (AASHTO) lengths with respect to strands pull out. Above that, the tensile force capacity is reduced for cracked anchorage areas.

Existing algorithms have been further enhanced with the following features:

  • The calculation of the stress redistribution induced by creep, shrinkage, and relaxation on the sectional level is extended to include the stiffness of non-prestressed reinforcement.
  • The identification of shear-resisting areas in the cross-section is improved. Previously, shear-resisting regions were detected based on the distribution of the shear stresses. The stress peaks calculated by the finite element method at the locations of singularities are now smoothed, making the identification of shear-resisting areas more accurate.
  • The Check of decompression according to EN code has been improved. The section utilization value indicates the multiple of the prestressing force at which the utilization in terms of the decompression condition would be 100%. The improvement consists in a higher informative value of the result. This suggests to the user the required increase/decrease of prestressing force to reach the required distance of the tendon from the neutral axis. The evaluation through the ratio of calculated to the limit values of the distances is still used in the case that the iteration for the multiple of the prestressing force does not converge. Note: if the stress state being evaluated includes a non-linear temperature component, a somewhat different prestressing force may be required than indicated by the utilization value due to the stress state formed by folded strain planes.
  • The evaluation of condition 7.3.1 (105) of the German annex to EN 1992-2 for no tension at the cross-section edge adjacent to the critical tendon has been improved. Newly the utilization value is taken from the standard decompression evaluation but is refined (adjusted) based on whether or not the condition of the stress at the cross-section edge is met. Then it indicates the multiple of the prestressing force at which the utilization in terms of the stress at the cross-section edge would be 100%.
  • Improved display of resistance in flexure. Newly the components of the moments of resistance in the y and z directions of the cross-section coordinate system can be displayed. Therefore, their presentations in the drawing thus correspond in sign with the governing bending moment.
  • The design of the necessary reinforcement area in cases of multiple reinforcement layers was improved by favoring the layer with a higher distance to the neutral axis.
  • Improvement of the EN design for crack width. The convergence of the algorithm was improved by the adaptation of the targeted stress after the design process had been finished and by launching new iteration cycle.

Cloud Workflows

New

  • Cloud Office Resources - v2.0: The new version of Cloud Office Resources will centralize resources created in ALLPLAN Share on the cloud, allowing users to easily access and share their project resources through a web-based UI.
  • ALLPLAN Connect: The updated Connect will provide a centralized web platform for ALLPLAN users to access various non-desktop apps, services, and functions, streamlining the user journey and reducing friction in accessing different resources. It will replace the current platform with a modern user interface, providing easier access to forums, e-learning, licensing, downloads, and other resources.
  • ALLPLAN Share - Performance Improvements: Performance improvements in ALLPLAN Share include reducing the number of API calls made between Share and the cloud, automating the project conversion process, and improving project backup to enhance overall stability and increase usage.
  • License Modernization ALLPLAN: ALLPLAN will replace the CodeMeter technology with 10Duke, provide a modern License Management Dashboard via Connect 2.0, and introduce a named licensing model alongside the existing floating license model for ALLPLAN AEC. These improvements aim to simplify the licensing process and enhance the customer experience.

Third Party Developer Focus

New

  • PythonPart SDK: With this release a PythonPart SDK with all the necessary tools for PythonPart development, such as debug and profiling tools, templates, and an easy access to examples will be available through pythonparts.allplan.com. Developers can now start developing PythonPart without having to configure the programming environment themselves.
  • PythonPart installation: This release introduces a new installation mechanism for PythonPart add-ons, making it easier for end users to install and manage PythonPart scripts. The installer allows for drag-and-drop or double-click installation, and supports installing missing Python packages and creating entries in the Actionbar.

Improvement

  • Improve PythonPart framework to enable more custom functions: This release focuses on enhancing PythonPart capabilities for common architecture and engineering workflows. Developers will have more control over PythonPart objects and the framework will be easier for beginners. The goal is to help customers understand the benefits of PythonPart through marketing and events.
  • Display name of PythonPart: Can now be adapted by the developer of the PythonPart.

ALLPLAN Civil

We updated the ALLPLAN Civil plug-in. Details