1: Cobie can be produced from a single 3D Building Geometry model No it can’t because there isn’t a Geometry BIM system that can input and store all the data so how can it possibly export it! 2: You can only produce Cobie from BIM Geometry systems. No you can build Cobie data from schedules…
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The Building SMART Data Dictionary is built to be accessed with API’s (application programming Interface) and this can be achieved from any internet enabled programming environment. In the template library we implemented a call to retrieve the template description based on the templates IFCObject name. In this example I get the return data in XML…
This is an example of how I hack data from one structure to another and in this example it’s COBie Attributes which seems to cause people the most problems. Why do it this way? Well the reality is the IFC data model is a great data model and most people have their existing data in…
I have always worn a wrist watch and I’ve always liked drawing even through my working life has been dominated by things digital. When my Timex explorer watch compass needle got stuck on the 10 minute notch, everything became 10 past, it was “Time” for a new something. I was at a meeting some weeks…
The BIM show live 2015 in Manchester, UK during a question and answer session with James Pellatt from Great Portland Estate clapped at an answer to a question about the use of COBie on the Residential Project in the presentation. James Pellatt (Head of Projects at GPE) said “COBie was irrelevant”. With James Pellatt on…
A question was asked on Linked in about experience of creating COBie data and software used. Rather than post a reply, solely in Linked-In, I thought it would be good to make our experience public. Here is a sketch of our experience and developments linking models with external data. We developed a briefing application…
We have had file based complete single models, then we needed to share other peoples work with in our own models so we had references then we needed to analysis these references together so we got federated models. With me so far. All these scenarios are based on files exchanges. Now we have virtual models…
Thematic plans are a remarkably productive way of visualising data about rooms in a building. Producing those thematic plans requires drawings with spaces clearly defined so that the enclosed area can be easily coloured / hatched usually in a CAD system. The process for many projects has surveyors going out to each building recording a…
Dangling from a cradle 40 stories high, clip board tethered to a wrist, scaling up and down the side of a building, weather permitting, inspecting joints, seals and glazing. This job has to be done for the life of the tall building; lives and rent are at risk. Nearly all major cities around the world…
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