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About DBF

DBF is the most user-friendly tool to design buildings, mine contextual information, and collaborate online. It helps building designers realize better projects, faster, with the power of flexible and detailed generative design, directly in the browser.

Flexible and detailed generative design

Whether you are working on a large or a small scale project DBF’s flexible and detailed generative design features design generator allows you to iterate quickly through multiple design solutions to meet your project goals. Options can be saved, compared, and tweaked, using DBF’s push-pull edit mode.

Location-based urban insights

DBF Urban Insights helps you mining location-based data from a variety of online sources: social media, maps, weather stations, and much more. The system processes and visualizes the collected data, and computes an overall neighbourhood score. The platform also suggests baseline criteria for a new development, such as the ideal size, tenancy, and typology. The metrics developed were informed by a variety of academic studies.

Real-time environmental analysis

DBF environmental analysis helps you run location-specific analysis, generate reports, and compare metrics at the click of a button. With this information, users can iterate and modify their project massing study to respond best to the local environment.

Archicad Link via DBF Hub

DBF Hub is a desktop application to sync designs developed in DBF’s web-based platform, instantly to Archicad as native elements.

See how DBF-Hub can help users fast-tracking BIM development in Archicad by 90%.

You can find out more about DBF by visiting their website
Interoperability Video that highlights the Graphisoft <> DBF connection: