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4.5 Powering infrastructure with fme
- 2. A Brief History of the Infrastructure Software Ecosystem
- 3. In the beginning there was AutoCAD
- 4. Buildings Roads Bridges Pipelines With CAD* you could draw *AutoCAD, Microstation, etc.
- 5. ● Mapping ● Context ● Smaller Scale ● Attributes Then somebody said, “Let’s Look at the Big Picture.” GIS
- 6. And there were silos
- 7. CAD - GIS Daleen Saah, Arup Migrating Water Lines Validating CAD Sharing Data third Automation So FME was born And infrastructure data flowed... Consortech for Montreal Airport Sweco for Vattenfall Nuclear BIM Devon Energy Automating Alignments
- 8. Bentley Roads Civil 3D Bentley Maps Revit But the smart people at Autodesk, Bentley, Hexagon...didn’t stop there...
- 9. BIM360 AutoDesk Vault ProjectWise ..and along came Document Management Systems
- 10. FME Evolves Whatever we want to call this new ecosystem of infrastructure software, FME evolves to enable interoperability for our users!
- 11. • Adobe PDF/3D PDF • Apple Venue Format • Autodesk A360 • Autodesk AutoCAD • Autodesk Civil 3D • Autodesk FBX • Autodesk Revit • Bentley Microstation • Bentley i-models • Esri Geodatabase • HERE Venue Format • IFC • Microsoft Excel • Minecraft* • Trimble SketchUp Format Support ...keep growing! How does FME help Infrastructure managers in this new world?
- 12. Attributes ● Schema mapping ● Resolving relationships ● Updates ● Simplification ● Validation Geometry ● Georeferencing ● 2D to 3D ● Instances ● Appearances ● Simplification Transformation How does FME help Infrastructure managers in this new world?
- 13. ● ProjectWiseConnector ● DropboxConnector ● A360Connector ● And on we go ... What about Document Management Systems? Connector Transformers
- 14. Planes,Trains,andAutomobiles Use of FME by Asset Owners Today Planes - Milan Airport Automatically generating fire escape maps thanks to viewport functionality in FME AutoCAD Writer. Trains - CN Rail Precision rail line mapping thanks to LiDAR Reader and AutoCAD Map Writer in FME. Automobiles - State of Bavaria Winter Maintenance Management System Bavaria thanks to FME Server scheduling for automation. *see the webinar for 3 different examples
- 15. Case Study: Validation of “As-Constructed” CAD drawings to a GIS-based Asset Management System Situation: ● Client manages water and sewer infrastructure ● Contractors construct additions and amendments to the systems ● They then submit CAD drawings of the “As-Con” infrastructure to the client ● These then require adding to their Asset Management System Problems: ● Every drawing was manually validated, corrected and attributed by the small GIS team - Very time-consuming and prone to error ● Submitted data dramatically varied in style, format and content - Hard to know if the submission is complete, let alone if it is valid
- 16. CAD Issues Under- & Over-shoots Incorrect noding & pipes not terminated by valves
- 17. Solution: Automate the process – Bring on FME!
- 18. Outcome ● Contractors now use template documents to report enforcing reporting standards ● GIS team now complete a web-form to submit docs to the system ● On submission FME Server grabs the CAD file and attribution spreadsheet and ○ Validates MGA Zone ○ Validates and fixes minor geometry errors ○ Joins attributes for each feature and validates them ● If all features pass – write to edit session - ● Else GIS team and contractor are automatically emailed a map and report of all errors to be fixed GIS team win – at least a week per submission In future contractors will be able to submit As-Con documents themselves via the web-form and only successful submissions need to be dealt with by the GIS team.
- 19. FME for Infrastructure Helping manage and deliver infrastructure asset information
- 20. RESOURCES Recorded Webinars ● Planes, Trains and Automobiles – Handling Infrastructure Assets with FME ● BIM and GIS Integration: A ‘How-To’
- 21. Q&A
Editor's Notes
- [see dropbox for recordings <Dropbox>\FMEWT18 Presentations\Infrastructure with FME\InfrastructurePresentation.mp4] We are going to talk about how FME is used in infrastructure by asset owners and managers By infrastructure planes trains automobile, but we broaden that too include electrical utility networks, pipelines some of the fundamental built systems we rely on We see FME getting used more and more to help manage these systems and we want to share with you some of what’s possible
- To get to where we are now with FME we’ll take a look at how design and mapping software used in infrastructure has evolved
- OK maybe not really but AutoCAD Version 1.0 was released in 1982 and MicroStation 1.0 1985 so we can say AutoCAD got the ball rolling
- Designers and engineers starting using CAD to draw all kinds in infrastructure related things and many companies who become our customers started by mapping their networks and assets using CAD tools
- GIS is more than a way of looking at things at a different scale, it also introduced concepts like database attribute management, coordinate systems, spatial analysis etc
- Tell a silo story here: Ken’s story: When I started my career I worked in GeoTechnical Engineering. I was there to bring GIS into hazard mapping for rail and pipeline customers. We had an AutoCAD person who did things like, drafting bridges and pipeline river crossings - detailed stuff. I did GIS. We got along and even shared work with each other. But it was very hard to move data between our two worlds
- With FME lots of infrastructure companies started to take advantage of interoperability between CAD and GIS. But then of course they found they could do other things like: validation of CAD files, sharing data internally and automating task. These are just a few examples of infrastructure companies who started using FME to manage their assets. Arup example from FME World Tour, migrating water network data into GIS Consortech for Montreal Airport generating validation reports in excel (Austrian Railways makes very complex validation reports in PDF) Sweco from blog and User Conference 2014 - making a common web portal by combining BIM, GIS and tabular information with FMe Devon Energy automating the production of alignment sheets for mid stream pipeline by Jerrod Stutzman Also https://www.safe.com/presentation/automating-customer-notification-of-water-system-impacts/
- Of course as we know software companies don’t sit still. The software ecosystem for infrastructure matured and specialized rapidly! Here are just some of the specialized software tools coming out to support infrastructure management. Many of these new tools could be called BIM tools but what they all have in common is they do specialized tasks for infrastructure contractors and asset owners.
- And the infrastructure industry goes digital and as projects get more complex most asset owners and contractors use a range of document management tools to handle the thousands and even hundreds of thousands documents in a big infrastructure project We could also talk about asset management software management systems as well on another slide
- We try hard to keep up the format support as formats evolve and new formats arise
- So far we try in particular to enable interoperability between BIM/CAD/Engineering systems and GIS Much of this involves schema mapping or simplification
- Increasingly customers want to define workflows in FME to handle or process the numerous documents (drawings, excel files, what-have-you) which are part of a project For example a contractor may want to package up all of the documents for a specific project milestone and deliver them with FME We have a sharepoint reader but not yet a Conenctor which would move files around, although others have done this
- Here are few recent examples of how infrastructure asset owners are using FME to take the most advantage of data derived from the modern asset software ecosystem, there are many many more
- A small case study as an example of our recent work. Our client receives CAD drawings and other documents describing new “As-Constructed” additions or amendments to their existing water and sewer pipe infrastructure. Ideally they want to manage their assets through their well established GIS-based asset management system Problems: Previously each drawing had to be manually validated, tidied and attributed be the GIS team to enter the new data into the system – time-consuming and prone to human error. Every contractor had their own way of submitting data and was hard to know at the time whether it was even complete, let alone error-free.
- What was required was AUTOMATE the system! Bring on FME!
- This demo highlights some of the work we’ve done with the AutoCAD Civil 3d Not that after making this demo we saw Alison Fischer from Klohn Crippen Berger show how they do a more complex version of this workflow ie Civil 3D to Geodatabase for dam information for BC Hydro
- This demo highlights some of the work we’ve done with the AutoCAD Civil 3d Not that after making this demo we saw Alison Fischer from Klohn Crippen Berger show how they do a more complex version of this workflow ie Civil 3D to Geodatabase for dam information for BC Hydro
- If I was to sum up what FME does in the world of Infrastructure I would say we help people working throughout the asset lifecycle manage and deliver asset information