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Be flexible and realize the true potential of your 2D and 3D design process in Revit® by eliminating unwanted repetitions.
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hsbDesign
platform
hsbDesign is our innovative BASE platform of which all feature rich design tool sets are built upon.
hsbDesign eliminates the unwanted repetitions associated with 2D and 3D design allowing you to realise its true potential. Using our hsbConsole interface, you will be able to group together common parts, so they can share the same configuration, and navigate your model with ease. With this BASE platform you’ll experience new levels of clarity, detail and engagement with your design.
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Design
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Design
Our platform for detailing offsite building projects, supporting a broad range of toolsets, each fine-tuned towards a specific offsite building technique.
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Timber
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Timber
Toolset for timber components consisting of interlocked or connected timber constructions, usable for a total building or for sub-parts. Compliant with the requirements of high-end detailing and premium craftsmanship.
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StickFrame
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StickFrame
Toolset for wood components connected together to form open or closed stick framed walls, to complete the design as needed for manufacturing.
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CLT
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CLT
Toolset for CLT wall, roof or floor panels (lamella layers of “cross laminated timber” that form high density panels), to complete the design as needed for manufacturing.
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FloorElement
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FloorElement
Toolset for wood or metal components connected together to form floor elements, to complete the design as needed for manufacturing.
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RoofElement
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RoofElement
Toolset for wood or metal components connected together to form roof elements, to complete the design as needed for manufacturing.
hsbDesign is our innovative BASE platform of which all feature-rich design tool sets are built upon. It eliminates the unwanted repetitions associated with modeling 3D design allowing you to realise its true potential. Using our hsbConsole interface, you will be able to group together common parts, so they can share the same configuration, and navigate your model with ease. With this platform, you’ll experience new levels of clarity, detail, and engagement with your design.
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Design
Platform
  • Interpret and visualize 3D models with extended hsbcad data.
  • Create conceptual designs and extend this to 3D parametric modelling.
  • Detail designs with annotated text, dimensions, leaders, and schedule tables.
  • Coordinate multidisciplinary design using linked models.
  • Analyse and simulate systems and structures and reiterate to establish the best visual result.
  • MEP and structural modelling and detailing.
  • Photorealistic 3D visualisation.
  • View only shop drawings in a customisable manufacturing format.
  • Plug-in feature rich hsbDesign complementary tool sets for your specific building technique.
hsbTimber is a tool set that requires the hsbDesign Platform. It is a toolset of timber components interlocked, connected together, consisting of parts and/or complete buildings requiring a dedicated commitment to high-end detailing and craftsmanship. Modern garden pool houses, carports, contemporary roofers and traditional half-timbered constructions can be planned and designed with timber connections. All detailing edits from simple tenon and dovetails within connections, traditional decorative ornamental bracing, modern classic birds mouth roof profile are easily adjusted, dimensioned,and made ready for hand crafting or CNC
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Timber
Platform
  • Detail with all standard beams: Rafters, Plates, Hip/Valley rafters, Ridge, Post, Brace, etc.
  • Every beam has associated intelligent information which can easily be used for bill of materials, produce automatic shop drawings and send to CNC interfaces.
  • Add intelligent connectors, such as tenons, dovetails, half-lap and scarf joints to any part of the construction and export to a required format.
  • You can expand your library with your own catalogue of custom profiled beams, materials, connections and tools.
  • Detect collisions already in your construction at design stage.
  • Intelligent position numbering: harbours numbers even if the construction has changed, and also avoids overlapping of numbers.
  • Roof calculation is based on construction information within plans or can even be the locations of the roof tiles.
  • Use dynamic commands such as: split, join, stretch, cut beams, and much more.
  • Basic texture can also be added to the visualised result.
  • Material lists per beam and sheet with rounding and length optimisations.
  • Automatically create dimensioned component shop drawings to your own customisable manufacturing format.
  • Expand to the hsb toolsets, StickFrame, Sip, CLT, Glulam and more, to allow for hybrid design.
hsbStickFrame is a tool set that requires the hsbDesign Platform. It is a tool set of timber components connected together to form high density open and closed framed walls, matched with tools to complete the design and production in timber construction. Flexibility to define posts, plates, studs, headers and more, together with layers of predefined sheeting aligned to stud distribution, can connect walls to floors and gable walls to roofs. Definition of openings in walls can be filled with windows and doors automatically detailed to the manufacturing criteria. The finalised outputs include detailed BIM production documents - compatible automated dimensioned layouts and material lists, including site assembly.
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StickFrame
Platform
  • New - Persist Technology - Preserve manual changes while framing the wall, and customize your design without fear of losing important work.
  • New - Butt connections with new UI - The latest addition to our framing style editor is the Butt connection that enables face-to-face connections. Moreover, it comes with a refreshed UI for a productive experience.
  • New - Work with Validations - Configure your custom rulesets that automatically check your design and prompt for errors. One-time setup, a lifetime of designing without worries.
  • New - hsbFlex tools - Automate your design process even further with new tools such as the pocket, vent, or point load.
  • Directly convert Revit® walls to framed walls – saving time between approval and production design.
  • Create a user-defined library of frame styles to your ownbuilding method:
  • Arrange beams and sheets using hsb graphical defined detail editor which predetermine the wall make up.
  • Define how corners and T-junctions are connected, mitred, and how wall ends terminate.
  • Define the build-up for openings such as headers, kingposts, cripples, …
  • Apply the internal and external sheet facades to a wall, specifying how they distribute across a wall, adjust at junctions and wall ends.
  • Create framed walls from the wall library – detailed with beams, sheeting (dimensions, orientation and distribution within the actual frame), junction arrangement, etc.
  • Dynamic opening (doors, windows, composite openings…) – positioning and dimensioning are completely customisable with specific details.
  • Add blocking controlling them dynamically
  • Center point of gravity and weight work together to define automatic lifting hole locations
  • Use general revit dynamic commands such as: split-, join-, stretch- walls and unique beams within a wall.
  • Construct sloped walls easily via intelligent angular planes – setting preferences for how the wall is related to the plane.
  • Copy and mirror construction framed designs in seconds 
  • Automatically create dimensioned component shop drawings to manufacturing format
  • Real-time automated dimensioned  panel layouts, showing live interactive views of the walls with bill of material for factory to manufacture.
  • Fabrication ready to LOD 400, supporting BIM level2 with full support to import and export up to IFC 4.0
  • Expand to the hsb tool sets, Timber, Sip, CLT, Glulam and more, to allow for hybrid design

hsbCLT tool set enhances the hsbDesign Platform with tools to detail cross laminated timber (CLT) projects . It is a tool set of lamella layers connected together to form high density wall, floor and roof panels, matched with tools to complete the design and production in CLT construction. Flexibility to define detailed panel styles, varying surface qualities, coupled together in a library with predefined grain directions aligned to spans of panels, can connect walls to floors to roofs. Definition of openings in walls can be filled with windows and doors automatically detailed to the manufacturing criteria. Standard connections like lap joints and joint board are easily adaptable supported by industry leader and customisable configurations of electrical installations and HVAC. The finalised outputs include detailed BIM production documents - compatible automated dimensioned layouts, material lists, and site assembly documents.
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CLT
Platform
  • Wall, floor and roof families offers you the opportunity to define specifications for CLT compositions and openings, or to utilise pre-determined libraries from our established CLT producers like KLH, StoraEnso, Mayr-Melnhof, Hasslacher
  • Detailed definition of CLT style by lamella – H and V type
  • Create routing and cutouts for electrical or plumbing logistics
  • Define wall, floor and roof connections, such as  and lap joints, and joint board
  • Create toolings like notchings, steel profile cutouts,  and grain direction for lamellas
  • Copy and mirror construction panelised designs in seconds
  • Real-time automated dimensioned  panel layouts showing live interactive views with bill of material for factory to manufacture.
  • Expand to the hsb tool sets, StickFrame, Sip, CLT, Glulam and more, to allow for hybrid design
Designed to work seamlessly with the hsbDesign Platform, our new hsbFloorElement toolset enables you to convert Revit® floors to framed floors, getting you from approval to production design quicker. You’ll have the flexibility to define the perimeter, chimney, and stairwell edge details, together with layers of predefined sheeting aligned to joist distribution - all combined to form an automated framed floor element. With hsbFloorElement, you’ll be able to assign parametric edge definitions for boundaries, openings, and edges in floors, each customized to your building method and automatically framed based on your manufacturing criteria. Finalized outputs include detailed BIM production documents with compatible, automated, dimensioned layouts and materials lists, useful during site assembly.
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FloorElement
Platform
  • Persist technology - Preserve the manual changes you’ve made while framing, and customizing your design with no risk of losing important work.
  • Enhanced user interface (UI) - Create floor-to-floor or wall-to-floor connections with an improved UI designed to boost productivity.
  • Built-in validation options - Customizable rulesets can be configured to check your design and flag errors automatically. With a one-time setup, you get a lifetime of designing without worries.
  • hsbFlex tools - Automate your design process even further with new tools such as the shafts, blocking, and lifting holes.
  • Directly convert Revit® floors to framed floors – saving time between approval and production design.
  • Create a user-defined library of frame styles for your building method.
  • Arrange beams and sheets using Framing Style Editor (FSE) (which predetermines the floor makeup).
  • Design, orient, split and arrange element outlines.
  • Assign specific user connection details to each outline (to produce framed floors).
  • Apply topside and underside sheet facades to a floor, specifying how:
  1. They distribute across a floor
  2. They adjust at openings and floor spans
  • Create framed floors from the floor library, detailed with:
  1. Beams (e.g., rectangular, I-beams, steel)
  2. Sheeting (dimensions, orientation, and distribution within the actual frame)
  3. Junction arrangement, etc.
  • Add blocking to control them dynamically.
  • The center point of gravity and weight work together to define automatic lifting hole locations.
  • Use general Revit® dynamic commands including split, join, stretch, and unique beams within a wall.
  • Copy and mirror construction framed designs in seconds
  • Automatically convert dimensioned component shop drawings to manufacturing format.
  • Real-time automated dimensioned panel layouts, showing live interactive views of the walls, complete with a “bill of materials” for the factory to manufacture.
  • Fabrication ready to LOD 400, supporting BIM level2 with full support to import and export up to IFC 4.0.
  • Seamless integration with other hsb toolsets, including hsbTimber, hsbCLT, hsbStickFrame, and more - enabling hybrid designs.
Designed to work seamlessly with the hsbDesign Platform, our new hsbRoofElement toolset enables you to convert Revit® roofs to framed roofs, getting you from approval to production design quicker. You’ll have the flexibility to define the ridges, eaves, valleys, hip, and mid plates, together with layers of predefined sheeting aligned to joist distribution, with diverse angle planes - all combined to form an automated framed roof element. With hsbRoofElement, you’ll be able to assign parametric edge definitions for boundaries, openings, and edges in roofs, each customized to your building method and automatically framed based on your manufacturing criteria. Finalized outputs include detailed BIM production documents with compatible, automated, dimensioned layouts and materials lists, valid during site assembly.
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RoofElement
Platform
  • Persist technology - Preserve the manual changes you’ve made while framing, and customizing your design with no risk of losing important work.
  • Enhanced user interface (UI) - Create roof-to-roof or wall-to-roof connections with an improved UI designed to boost productivity.
  • Built-in validation options - Customizable rulesets can be configured to automatically check your design and flag errors. With a one-time setup, you get a lifetime of designing without worries.
  • hsbFlex tools - Automate your design process with new tools such as the shafts, blocking, and lifting holes.
  • Directly convert Revit® roofs to framed roofs – saving time between approval and production design.
  • Create a user-defined library of frame styles for your building method.
  • Arrange beams and sheets using Framing Style Editor (FSE) (which predetermines the roof makeup).
  • Design, orient, split and arrange roof element outlines.
  • Assign specific user connection details at ridge, valley, hip, side, etc., to each outline (to produce framed roofs).
  • Apply topside and underside sheet facades to a roof, specifying how:
  1. They distribute across a roof
  2. They adjust at openings and roof spans
  • Create framed roof from the roof library, detailed with the following:
  1. Beams (e.g., rectangular, I-beams, steel)
  2. Sheeting (dimensions, orientation, and distribution within the actual frame)
  3. Junction arrangement, etc.
  • Define roof battens and lath positions.
  • Add blocking to control them dynamically.
  • The center point of gravity and weight define automatic lifting hole locations.
  • Use general Revit® dynamic commands, including split, join, stretch, and unique beams within a wall.
  • Copy and mirror construction framed designs in seconds.
  • Automatically convert dimensioned component shop drawings to manufacturing format.
  • Real-time automated dimensioned panel layouts showing live interactive views of the walls, complete with a “bill of materials” for the factory to manufacture.
  • Fabrication ready to LOD 400, supporting BIM level2 with full support to import and export up to IFC 4.0.
  • Seamless integration with other hsb toolsets, including hsbTimber, hsbCLT, hsbStickFrame, hsbFloorElement, and more - enabling hybrid designs.

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“Der Einsatz von hsbcad stellt außerdem für uns sicher, das wir auch künftig BIM-basierte Projekte erfolgreich umsetzen können.”
DR. Ing. JM Ducret
CEO - JPF-Ducret
hsbDesign
hsbDesign
Bridging Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD Architecture
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Keith Cotter
Sales Manager
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