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. See more presentations from the FME User Conference 2014 at: www.safe.com/fmeuc

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
Floorplan
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
RoomsSpace
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. 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

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