Renga BIM system (formerly Renga Architecture, Renga Structure and Renga MEP)

Main article: BIM (Building Information Modeling) Information modeling of buildings and structures

2023: Release of seamless integration module with "1S:TOIR KORP" version 3.0

On November 29, 2023, Andrei Afonin, Head of Solutions for Industrial Enterprises at 1C, presented the seamless integration module 1S:TOIR KORP version 3.0 with the Renga system, designed for architectural and construction 3D design of buildings, structures, load-bearing structures and internal engineering networks. The module was included in the Russian integrated software package "1C:BIM 6D." Read more here.

2021: Development of an open road map

In 2021, Renga is being developed according to an open roadmap. As of November 2021, seven system updates have been released, as a result of which users received automated design of sheets in drawings.

Formulas have appeared in the properties of Renga objects, with the help of which, for example, you can obtain the Specification of rolled metal products in accordance with GOST 21.502-2016.

A lot of work has been done to refine exports/imports to IFC. The user can now pass the required geometric representation to any CAD or viewer.

You have copied drawings, schedules, and assemblies, both within the project and from project to project.

2020: Merging Renga Architecture, Renga Structure and Renga MEP into a single Renga BIM system

On July 28, 2020, Renga Software announced the merger of three Renga Architecture, Renga Structure and Renga MEP programs into a single comprehensive Renga BIM system.

Up to this point, three Renga Architecture, Renga Structure and Renga MEP products developed in parallel as three stand-alone, self-contained products and were provided to users in the form of different installers and licenses aimed at architects, designers and internal network engineers. However, as each system developed, users began to show interest in tools for other specialties. For example, architects said that they would like to arrange not only standard sanitary equipment in the project, but also washing machines, towel dryers, mixers, etc. But this functionality was only available to engineers in the Renga MEP program.

To combine three products into one, there were internal reasons: the Renga development technology involves a single code base, and only after the release was completed, Renga was forcibly assembled in three different configurations - a product for an architect, a product for a designer and a product for an engineer, each of which underwent mandatory internal testing. This task took a lot of time, which could be spent, for example, on creating new functionality.

In an effort to simplify the testing process, taking into account the wishes of users to have more tools for work, as well as to avoid questions and doubts among customers when choosing the desired configuration, and in fact, simplify their choice of software and its licensing, Renga Software management decided to provide all the developed functionality in one software product.

A single Renga product - one workplace - one license. According to the developers, more functionality provided in one license will help designers better cope with the tasks of the project.

2019: Release of three versions of Renga Architecture, Renga Structure and Renga MEP

In 2019, the developers released three versions of Renga Architecture, Renga Structure and Renga MEP. Users of all three systems are able to batch export drawings to PDF and DWG.

The Renga specifications have a general graph, with the help of which designers can obtain specifications according to form 7 of GOST R 21.1101-2013, which can combine different properties from different objects. These can be arbitrary combinations of properties: the area of ​ ​ the floors and the length of the skirting boards, the length/width/area of ​ ​ the window and doorways, or all this together.

The Asconometric View tool has appeared in Renga drawings. The designers were able to operate with all axonometric views, which are described in the interstate standard GOST 2.317-2011 "Unified System of Design Documentation (ESKD). Axonometric projections. "

The ability of designers to create a 3D model has expanded. You can design objects anywhere in 3D space, and you can copy objects in any plane, not just within the work surface. For example, you can copy a wall with window openings up the elevation in one action.

Renga MEP added airway and electrical systems.

At the end of 2019, Renga introduced Collaboration, with the help of which a team of designers can work on a project at the same time.

2018: Column and Beam Profile Editor at Renga Architecture

One of the main novelties of the new release is the Column and Beam Profile Editor. Thanks to the profile editor, designers will be able to create a round or square pipe, a TT beam, a shape, etc. (Figure 1).

Fig. 1 Square pipe section created in the Profile Editor and applied to the new column style

Architects have the opportunity to create facade cornices, capitals, canneled columns in the program, etc. (Figure 2).

Fig. 2 Facade Cornice Profiles

In previous releases of the system, users were limited in creating arbitrary shapes of column and beam profiles. Now you can create any sections and, in addition, make them parametric, which allows you to obtain its different types from one profile shape.

Another innovation in Renga Architecture and Renga Structure is the Build tool. An assembly is a 3D model of an object that consists of multiple parts. The tool helps you create any composite 3D object and add it to the 3D model of the building. Changes or adjustments made to the assembly feature are automatically displayed in the information model. This tool is versatile and will be useful for both architects and designers. This tool is useful to the architect, for example, when working with elevator shafts, as well as when solving other problems (Figure 3).

Fig. 3 "Elevator Shaft Using the Assemble Tool

The new items also affected the "Window" tool. The Renga team has greatly expanded the user's ability to work with window filling. In Renga Architecture, you can now specify a window design material, control frame geometry, and control horizontal and vertical mullions. In addition, it is possible to add opening doors to a window structure and create windows with a side lower or side upper suspension, a sliding horizontal or vertical door.

And so that users do not have to manually add designed windows to the window opening list, we have improved the Bill of Materials tool. Now the tool allows you to combine the same elements and group the data according to the requirements of GOST and SPDS. And the Filter function will help you filter all necessary or unnecessary values. Having created a filter template once, an architect or designer can use it not only in schedules, but also to work with a 3D model. The updated functionality allows you to obtain group specifications according to Forms 7, 8 of GOST 21.501-2011 (Specification for filling window and doorways, specification of jumper elements, specifications of structural elements, etc.)

In this release of the system, the algorithm for mating walls made of multilayer materials has been improved. Now, in Renga Architecture and Renga Structure, the base layer will always cut other wall layers and reach the base layer of the mated design, and when mating the same materials, the boundaries between the layers will not be displayed.

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2017

Renga MEP

Renga MEP is a BIM system for the design of internal building engineering systems (water supply, sewerage, heating, ventilation, power supply).

Key features of Renga Architecture

System for designing the architectural part of buildings/structures. Key features:

• 3D design.
• Context-oriented interface.
• A mini CAD or style editor for each object is a universal tool for creating any feature configuration.
• Navigating the project.
• Drawing layout.
• Data exchange.

3D Design

The user is provided with unlimited three-dimensional space for creativity, the ability to freely "handle" levels and floors, the most popular types of elements and tools for modifying them. Within each team - a variety of views, types, styles that allow you to solve very serious problems in the design of buildings of a complex architectural form.

The 2D design mode (plan view of some level) is also available, and it will not limit the user in functionality. Moreover, even working in this mode, the user continues to create a 3D model of the project.

Interface solution

In the process of developing a new system, one of the tasks was to create a new original context-oriented interface.

Behind these concepts are the rules of interaction between the system and the user, the appearance of the work area, the logic of team behavior, the comfortable work of a specialist for 8-12 hours of design. To solve the problem, specialized research was carried out, weighted technical decisions were made on the color scheme, placement of the model in space, convenient navigation, a sufficient number of functional commands and their grouping, and much more.

Description of Renga Structure

System for designing the structural part of buildings/structures. Key features:

• 3D design.
• Automatic reinforcement of cast-in-situ reinforced concrete structures.
• Reinforcement of openings and holes.
• Reinforcement with single rods.
• A mini CAD or style editor for each object is a universal tool for creating any feature configuration.
• Tags all construction objects in a 3D model.
• Communication with design complexes.
• Drawing layout.
• Single platform for design engineer and architect.
• Data exchange.
• Information Modeling (BIM).

Structural Design System for Buildings/Structures

• A tool for design engineers and designers to create an information model of a building or structure and obtain drawings of QoL/QI/KM/NP grades
• The system is designed for architectural and construction design using BIM technology. Designing an information model of a building or structure, the design engineer or designer will easily fill it with the necessary data on the reinforcement of monolithic reinforced concrete elements or the location of metal structures. This will allow not only to reduce the time for designing structures and obtaining the necessary drawings of KZh/KZH/KM/NP grades, but also to exchange data with other project participants. The high performance of the system will allow you to work with large projects without a visible decrease in the quality of work with the 3D model.

3D Design

• The user is given unlimited three-dimensional space, the ability to freely "handle" levels and floors. Within each team - a variety of views, types, styles that allow you to solve very serious problems in the design of buildings of a complex architectural form.
• The 2D design mode (plan view of some level) is also available, and it will not limit the user in functionality. Moreover, even working in this mode, the user continues to create a 3D model of the project.

Automatic reinforcement of cast-in-situ reinforced concrete structures

• With the help of rules and styles of reinforcement, the user easily receives reinforcement of all cast-in-situ reinforced concrete structures in accordance with SP and GOST
• The system has set up the rules for reinforcement of cast-in-situ reinforced concrete structures in accordance with the norms and standards of the design of the Russian Federation. Each type of structures (foundations, walls, columns, beams, floors) corresponds to its own rule of location of reinforcement elements. It is enough to choose a reinforced structure, and the system itself will propose a rule for laying out reinforcement.
• For various structural reinforcement options, the Reinforcement Styles tool is implemented within the rule. You can customize the reinforcement style and assign it to a particular design. You can create an unlimited number of reinforcement styles.
• Reinforcement styles are parameterized so that you can assign the same style to different dimensions within the same rule.
• Renga Structure allows you to automate rebar clipping at openings in walls or floor slabs.

2016: Release of five versions of Renga Architecture. The first release of Renga Structure

Five versions of Renga Architecture were released in 2016. As a result, after this year, users of the system have the ability to create columns and beams of standard profiles, control the location of the column and beam relative to the axis.

In Renga drawings, you can specify view display styles and get projections of objects. It became possible to control the color of materials, that is, right in Renga to get a preliminary visual representation of the building, to prepare an elevation color scheme on drawings.

Users have the ability to create, edit, delete properties and assign values to them. At the end of 2016, the first release of Renga Structure was released.

2015: Description of Renga Architecture

Renga Architecture is a three-dimensional architectural and construction design system.

The product is focused on design organizations of various sizes: from small and medium-sized companies, workshops, bureaus and design departments of industrial enterprises to design institutes.

Renga Architecture allows designers and architects to work in unlimited three-dimensional space and quickly create 3D projects for industrial and civil buildings using familiar elements - wall, column, beam, window and others. But, according to the developers' idea, the system should not make the user hostage to "unfilled" directories, the lack of the necessary configuration of a particular element, and thereby limit the freedom of creativity. Renga Architecture gives you the opportunity to retreat from the variations provided by the developer thanks to prototype style editors that will help design buildings of the most complex forms and solve non-standard architectural problems.

In Renga, the architect creates not only a three-dimensional, but also an information model of the building, where various symbols are placed: sections, elevations, levels. And a full-fledged 2D graphic editor is implemented in the "Drawing" mode. It allows you to literally "by hand" supplement drawings with the necessary graphic primitives - lines, arcs, hatches, fills, elevations, linear dimensions... The views placed in the drawing are associated with the 3D model, and any change to the model instantly changes the geometry in the drawing. Another feature of the product is the original context-oriented interface, which embodied the results of specialized research. Color scheme, placement of the model in space, navigation, grouping of commands take into account the logic of interaction between the system and the user and ensure comfortable work of the specialist during 8-12 hours of design. Renga Architecture uses Horizon-Based Ambient Occlusion technology from NVIDIA, the world leader in programmable GPU technology, for graphical visualization of models. HBAO + technology gives realistic visualization by correctly calculating the shading - the light picture of the scene looks flawless. In addition, developers are testing and debugging Renga Architecture on NVIDIA graphics cards to recommend the most efficient hardware to users.

The novelty is distinguished by the "omnivore" of formats, which helps to make the architect's plan equally understandable for both designers and engineers, and most importantly, to use three-dimensional and two-dimensional project data at all stages of collective work on it. To maximize the integration of Renga Architecture into the existing information environment, the.ifc,.dxf,.obj,.csv,.3ds,.stl formats are available in the system.

2014: Cottage design at Renga Architecture

Cottage design at Renga Architecture, 2014