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Switch off every discipline except the one you care about

“Five separate models merged into one twin, each still switchable on its own.”

5 models

Merged, still addressable

One click

To stand a system on its own

Snowdon Towers

Every discipline but plumbing switched off

What it does

Isolates one building system inside a federated model.

Disciplines

Architectural, facades, HVAC, electrical, plumbing

Best for

Coordination review without a BIM seat

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A building is not one model

It is five, produced by five teams, and the interesting questions live in the gaps between them. Whether a duct and a sprinkler main want the same ceiling void is not answerable from any single file.

Merging them into one twin keeps each one individually addressable, so isolating a system is a toggle rather than a re-export.

What each layer keeps

  • Live room status:
    Stripped, in progress, blocked or signed off — room by room, live.

  • Trades on the job:
    Who is in the room today, and who is still waiting.

  • Budget vs forecast:
    Committed against forecast, per room and per area.

The problem

Coordination review normally means a specialist, a licence, and a meeting. The person who needs the answer is usually not the person who can produce it.

Anyone with a link can stand a system on its own and see where it actually runs.

Built for Facilities and capital-projects leads

Nothing is destroyed

Toggling a discipline off hides it, and toggling it back restores the full model. Adding or removing a layer is versioned, so the base model keeps its tags and its history.

That matters when a consultant reissues one discipline. You swap that layer and everything else stays exactly as it was.

  • One live model:
    Every trade works the same twin, in any browser, with no install.

  • Ask in the model:
    The copilot flies to the room you asked about.

  • Nothing gets lost:
    Notes and tickets stay pinned to the element itself.

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