Welcome to Pirros! The pages in this Getting Started section aim to introduce you to the terms and objects you'll see in Pirros. This Platform Overview page introduces the core concepts involved in working with Pirros. The following pages dive deeper into each concept. After we explain everything, we'll discuss the ways you integrate your system(s) with ours.
Pirros keeps your details organized, easy-to-find, and ready to design with as soon as you need them.
How it all works
The image below illustrates what a well-rounded integration with Pirros looks like:
Typical Details are the vetted details from your firms standard detail library.
All Details includes project details for cases when you are looking for special conditions.
Projects are all of the past and current project details fully customized with project parameters by yourself and your team to help refine your search.
Stashes are groups of details that users create to download, export, and share into Revit models and/or document sets.
Typical Details
On Pirros, the Typical Details page is where you find the details from your standard library. You should use the Typical Details page only for your vetted details.
Vetted / Standard Details
Only Administrators can add to and update the Typical Detail Library
Meant for details found in almost every project
Pulling typical details from here can eliminate the slight variations found in standard details from project to project.
The Typicals Details page should contain the highest quality detail for common construction conditions. This should be your go-to page for putting together a new project set in the early stages of design.
All Details
On Pirros, the All Details page includes your typical details and the project details for cases when you are looking for special conditions. You should use the All Details page when you need to reference past projects to learn from unique conditions.
Entire Detail Library
Consists of details from all your firm's past projects
Contains unique construction conditions that are encountered less frequently
Represents a database of past project details available for reference and markup
The All Details page contains all of your firm's details and allows team members to add to this library as they complete new projects. This allows anyone to quickly discover how different conditions have been detailed on past projects.
Projects
Apart from including your typical details, we encourage you to include past project details on your Pirros database. By uploading past project details, your firm will be able to access, reuse, and learn from past project successes, as well as mistakes.
As you include projects on your database, administrators can decide whether or not to make a project "reference only", which allows your team members to view details, but disables them from downloading these details into their Revit models. Administrators may decide to do this for certain projects that have unique construction conditions, but are not details that worked well enough to include in future projects. Young architects find this feature extremely helpful since it provides them with even more material to study and learn from.
Stashes
With Stashes, you can group details together to send out for printing to PDF or download to your Revit model.
Grouping Feature: As you search for details throughout our library, you can use stashes to group together details you want to include in your project.
Sharing Feature: You can send your stash of details out to one of your peers for review, markup, or collaboration before including it into your document set.
Download to Revit Feature: After placing all of your desired details for a project into a stash, you can stage for download the entire stash and import all of the details into your Revit with the Pirros Plugin.
Export to PDF Feature: You can export the entire stash to PDF and open the details in Bluebeam to markup and create a cartoon set.