SPIRIT Overview

Spirit offers one of the most comprehensive toolsets available to architects, planners and designers through a cross spectrum of industries. It does this by virtue of it's unique hybrid approach. What does this mean? If one looks at the background and history in the development of Spirit, one will see that the primary initial focus was on effective 2d construction drawing. You may have considered this a drawback to developing a modern BIM cad package, but we used this to our advantage as the following example will demonstrate. One of the unique features that Spirit has had from inception is what we call line overshoots. It may be regarded as a mundane feature, but it sure attracted many architects early on with it's ability to produce documentation that was "architectural" in nature and not "mechanical". We retained this feature and many of the other powerful features in the way we construct our "smart" parametric building objects (walls, windows, doors etc.).

This way you get the best of both worlds. You get the absolute freedom to decide on the look and feel of your drawings at varying levels of detail, with the benefit of parametrics and objects - to meet the BIM  requirements.

With FrescoII, the integrated high-end rendering solution, Spirit offers one of the industries best rendering engines (Lightworks) to generate compelling visuals and panoramas, to bring your BIM models to life and to assist you in securing more business.

The integration of the bi-directional Pronto*Reporting utility in Spirit completes the picture by providing you with accurate and immediate quantity estimates from the BIM model.

For a comprehensive overview of the feature sets in Spirit please refer to the Features section.