Abstract

CAD/BIM/GIS Floorplan Integration at the University of Washington
Track: Facilities
Authors: Aaron Cheuvront

The University of Washington recently complete a project to redesign is floorplan GIS infrastructure. The goals of the project were to streamline the process of GIS translation of CAD file while at the same time improving the overall usefulness of the system. Working with Vertex3, the UW has developed a fully automated GIS translation process. This process integrates multiple technology platforms to provide building floor plans in 2D and 3D in CAD, Revit, and GIS formats. While CAD and Revit are the main editing interfaces, GIS is the primary data aggregation interface allowing us to create GIS application for all University systems with spatially related data.
Additional Topics
-Implementing BISDM
-ArcGIS for AutoCAD is critical
-Georeferenced floorplans
-Time enabled floorplan data for ArcGIS 10.
-Automation is key
-20M GSF of floor plans
-Whole system runs with only 3 people (including CAD updates)
-Use of Data Driven Pages for floor plans