Many facilities managers want to use GIS applications with CAD floorplan drawings. This session focuses on a solution Vertex3 has been developing to automate data synchronization between CAD and GIS systems for several university campuses.
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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
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
11. Floorplan Challenges
Seamless GIS database from 00s and 000s of drawings
Spatial Reference
Identity and Attributes
Geometry
Rooms within rooms
SDE/databases very picky
Additional GIS Data creation
Auto-create more datasets
Often dependent on previous processing steps
Change-only updates
Source and target data needs evolve
Processing has to be modular
QA and long transactions
2D Floorplans to 3D seamless GIS