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Model and drawing resources are being reviewed before publication. Contact the technical team for the current approved files.
For specifiers
A ground reinforcement panel is a simple object — a 330 × 330 mm, 40 mm-deep interlocking cell — but for a model to be useful it has to carry the same information a written specification does: the panel geometry, the layer it sits in, the build-up around it, and the data properties a schedule can read. That is why the BIM and CAD files for X-Grid are being reviewed rather than simply exported.
Releasing a model that shows the panel but not the sub-base, or a family with properties that contradict the published guidance, does more harm than releasing nothing. The review checks exactly that: geometry against the technical guide, layer definitions against the standard build-ups, and data properties against the figures this site publishes. When the set is approved it will be published here with the same evidence discipline as the downloaded documents.
In the meantime
Until the reviewed set is published, the technical team can provide the current drawing and specification information directly — including panel dimensions, the standard build-up for your application, and the performance data in the form your submission needs. For most projects that means a dimensioned panel drawing, a typical build-up section and the compression figure with its test condition, all traceable to the published documents.
If your workflow needs a specific format — Revit family, IFC, DWG — say so when you get in touch and we will tell you honestly whether we hold it or when it is expected. Where a proprietary format is not yet available, the underlying dimensions and data are, and they are the part that matters to the design.
Formats
A useful BIM object for a cellular paver is not just the moulded shape. It has to sit correctly in a build-up, so the model needs to know which layer it belongs to and what surrounds it; it has to schedule accurately, so the quantity properties must agree with the real panel count of nine per square metre rather than an idealised figure; and it has to carry the data a specification reads, so the compression result and its test condition travel with the object instead of being retyped from a brochure.
Those requirements are why the review takes time. A panel drawn to the wrong depth, or a family whose properties quote a filled test against an unfilled one, will quietly introduce an error into every model that uses it — and the error is hardest to find precisely because the geometry looks right. The reviewed set will be published with the assumptions stated, so a specifier can see what the object represents and what must be designed separately.
Until then, the honest position is that the data exists and the approved model does not. For any live project, ask for the drawing and data you need and we will supply them with their conditions attached, which is more useful in the short term than a file that has not been checked.
Working together
Two specifiers can ask for “BIM files” and need completely different things: one wants a Revit family that schedules in a cost plan, another wants an IFC object for a federated model, a third wants a DWG detail to drop into a section drawing. Saying which of those you need — and what the output is used for — is more useful than naming a format, because it tells us what the object has to carry to be worth using. The technical team will match the data to the job rather than send a generic package.
