Presented by Steve Grise, Vertex See more FME World Tour 2014 presentations at www.safe.com/recap2014

1. CONNECT. TRANSFORM. AUTOMATE.
Enabling a Campus-wide, seamless
Geodatabase from CAD Drawings
Steve Grise
Vertex3 Inc.

2. Intro
 CAD to GIS Sync for buildings is evolving
 Industry moving quickly based on drivers
 Space/Asset reporting
 Operations
 Logistics
 Public Safety, Security
 Health and Safety
 Tools and processes shown here largely based on
recent work at the University of Washington –
Seattle

3. Config
Sync Engine
CAD
Vault
Floorpla
n
Outline
Basemap
Python Processing
Spatial
Tabular
QA
Staging Production
Views
deltas
Archive
Archive

4. Sync Logic
Folder For each drawing
Run playlists
Call
FME as subprocess
If no errors
Call
Sync to Prod
Staging
Production
Gizinta
arcpy
Config
pycfmLoaderFME.py fpLoadPlaylist.xml,fpDerivePlaylist.xml
cfmDataConfig.xml True False
Example

5. Floorplan Loader

6. Floorplan Datasets
Spaces
Floorplan Lines
Floor Areas
(Building Outline Tilt)

7. Floorplan Derive

8. Derived Datasets
Outline Point
Floor Hull
Published Lines
Tilted Rooms
Space
Points

9. Gizinta for FME
 Custom Transformers
 XML Config
 Dataset mapping
 Attribute Transformations
 QA settings
 Performs attribute and geometry QA
 Logs to tables
 Dynamic Writers
Make the simple stuff easier!

10. Tools

11. A Solution for Floorplan Challenges
 Seamless GIS database from 00s and 000s of drawings
 Paper coordinates - World Spatial Reference
 Manage Identity and Attributes
 Geometry
 Rooms within rooms
 SDE/databases very picky, CAD more flexible
 Additional GIS Data creation
 Auto-create more datasets
 Often dependent on previous processing steps
 Change-only updates – bulk loading = poor performance
 Source and target data needs evolve
 Processing has to be modular
 QA and long transactions
 2D Floorplans to 3D seamless GIS – apps are data-hungry

12. Contact Info
 steve@vertex3.com
 www.vertex3.com
 www.gizinta.com
 226 444 0323