Numfem Therm, make the right choice.
The first worldwide Revit plugin to automate
thermal bridge & building simulations without any file exchanges.
From Autodesk Revit…
No limit : Numfem Therm is fully compatible with any Revit modeling.
…to Numfem Therm
with just one click ; no need to use dxf/dwg export-import files.
Obtain room heat losses & thermal bridge coefficients Ψ ; no need to use excel spreadsheets !
Automated reports
Use Revit sheets to automatically produce analyzes & calculations reports.
All thermal simulations were made only using native Revit modelings. Numfem Therm handles all thermal Revit informations and it’s compatible with Revit worksharing, design options, phases .
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- Existing construction
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- Heat loss = 1873 W
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- New insulated construction
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- Heat loss = 233 W (8 times less)
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- Some thermal bridge
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- Ψ values calculations
FAQ
Numfem Therm is a thermal simulation software, that is directly synchronized with BIM data to simulate the thermal behavior, from a simple thermal bridge to a whole 2D view.
Numfem Therm is not a 2D/3D drawing software, because it’s linked to Revit and uses all its modeling capacities.
For all people involved in building energy simulation : architects, project owners, thermal engineers, constructors, manufacturers, energy consultants…
Numfem Therm is the only fully connected BIM software for thermal building simulation. It means that you don’t have to export, re-sketch / heal / mo dify geometry, assign materials, temperatures … Numfem Therm does it all automatically ! It saves a lot of time, and even permit almost automatic iterative analysis.
Moreover Numfem Therm use a very fast and powerfull finite element solver based on the latest mathematical improvements such as high order finite element, adaptive mesh refinement, multithreaded linear solver…
If you are already a Revit user, Numfem Therm plugin is child’s play !
First of all, the common traditional approach to achieve thermal simulations requieres to draw the thermal model, assign manually the materials and the boundaries conditions, create reports after calculations…
Sometimes several softwares are needed, that may be inconvenient and time consuming when it comes with design modifications. Additionally, you might have to deal with multiple file types with possible data loss between them.
We’ll never say that approach is not good, we just say that’s just not BIM.
Today, it clearly appears that BIM offers huge benefits in terms of : endless possibilities in modeling, structured data, collaboration, task automations… That’s why we are conviced that BIM can save a lot of time and increase quality.
For instance, i really don’t know how much time is needed to sketch and calculate such models (see below) using a traditional approach : maybe hours, what happens if the models change ?
Using Numfem Therm plugin, all was done in less than 60 seconds. You can modify your Revit design as you want, just synchronize simulations with one click !
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- New insulated construction
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- Heat loss = 233 W (8 times less)
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- Some thermal bridge
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- Ψ values calculations
Numfem Therm works from Revit 2020 to 2024 (not LT version) and under windows operating system with no minimal requirements others than Revit’s ones.
Numfem Therm is developed under, and officially targeting, Windows operating system.
It may work under Mac (Bootcamp, Parallels), but we do not have any certitude as far as normal operation / stability / performance are concerned.