What is VIMASYS? VIMASYS is a project visualization, model validation and a visual project management software. It integrates 3D CAD models produced in a variety of software in a single model and allows you to visualize project management process. VIMASYS transforms the boring job of quality management, task scheduling, cost management, and collaboration with other teams and companies into enjoyable and visual form. VIMASYS is specifically developed to minimize time and money losses due to coordination and collaboration problems that are common to large scale industrial facility projects.

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Multi-Disciplinary: In facility and plant design business, it is especially important to establish and maintain high level of coordination between major disciplines such as architectural, structural, mechanical, and electrical as these exist in the same physical volume and have a “strong tendency” to clash. VIMASYS, with its multi-disciplinary support, can combine 3D computer models of different disciplines and allows you to find and fix problems long before the structure is built at the site.

Modern Interface, Latest Technology: VIMASYS is developed using latest software technologies to exploit and utilize the potential of most recent hardware. It can and does:

• thanks to its 64-bit support, use as much memory as you can put in to your workstation so that you can display even the largest of facilities with all its disciplines down to the smallest details,
• take advantage of fastest graphics cards by its OpenGL 4.3 and shader-based graphics engine to provide you with ultra-fast real-time rendering,
• put all computational power of your multi-core CPU into work by its parallel algorithms,
• provide you an easy-to-use and intuitional graphical user interface with its “Ribbon” interface.

Take a Tour: You can take a virtual tour in a facility that is composed of dozens of buildings and structures modeled down to the tiniest details with VIMASYS. Thanks to intuitive navigation tools of VIMASYS, it is very easy to move in this 3D virtual environment, inspect structures and equipment, fly around, or view from any point.

Super-Fast Real Time Rendering: VIMASYS can animate a plant model that is composed of over a million 3D objects in real-time. In other words, when rotating, panning, and zooming in to or out of model the user does not feel any lagging or slowness. This makes it very comfortable to navigate in very large models.

Advanced Drawing Modes: Wireframe, contoured- or plain-solid, and transparent drawing modes with the option of isometric or perspective projection allows you to obtain any view from the model. You can have more than one view window at any time and save these with different settings.

Intelligent Zoom and Panning: You don’t need to roll mouse wheel endlessly to get from one end of model to the other. With intelligent zoom you zoom to distant objects quickly while zooming in to closer objects with smaller steps. Panning is also smart so that the point you are interested in does not run out of the screen.

Navigation Mode and Origin of Interest: VIMASYS offers two different modes for navigating in the mode. These are called “around object” and “around eye”. If “around object” navigation mode is active, the camera representing the point of view rotates around a point that is called “origin of interest”. Origin of Interest is determined automatically by VIMASYS according to position of mouse cursor and objects under it. In the latter navigation mode, the camera rotates about a virtual point that represents your point of view. Using these two interaction modes, it is very easy to move around the objects and set your point of view.

Model Review: In design projects where multiple disciplines exist, such as industrial plants, project and model reviewing becomes a very important part of design process. On the other hand, when computer models get larger it becomes more difficult to review the models. VIMASYS provides tools that overcome these difficulties.

Measurement and Object Inspection: When you are exploring or inspecting a model, you may wish to know dimensions of an object or distance between two columns. It is very easy to measure the distance between any two points by using interactive measurement tool of VIMASYS. In addition to measuring distances, you can obtain information about an object. “Object Query” tool shows information about an object such as which discipline an object belongs to, by whom it is modeled, material grade, etc.

Cross-Section Views: Sometimes it might be hard to see the details you want to see in large model with many objects. You can define one or more cross-sectional view planes in VIMASYS to remove unwanted objects from the view. You can then move these cross-section planes or reverse their directions. All you need to do to create a cross-sectional view is to click on a surface on the cross-section plane you want to define.

Object Filters: 

In a model that consists of dozens of buildings with tens or even hundreds of thousands of objects it can be hard to find and display the objects you are looking for. VIMASYS provides an extensive set of object filters for this purpose. Some of these filters are:

• Filter according to models that contains objects
• Filter according to object types. Examples are profiles, rebars, walls, etc.
• Filter according to material grades
• Filter according to discipline that objects belong to

Advanced Selection Commands: In addition to object filtering options, it is possible to select objects individually or as a group. Selected objects can be hid or displayed as only visible objects on the screen.