Building Information Model Integration for Real-Time 2D Floor Plans
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current building information models (BIM) do not efficiently integrate three-dimensional views with two-dimensional representations, requiring users to switch between interfaces for analyzing and correlating building structural information, leading to inefficiencies and errors in the design and construction process.
Innovation Solution
A system and method for integrating BIM data into a software plugin that enables simultaneous conversion of 3D models into 2D renderings, incorporating data from various file formats and reducing the need for manual data import and export, thereby improving data processing efficiency and reducing user errors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users switch between three-dimensional view interface and two-dimensional view interface to analyze building information, then comprehensive analysis capability is improved, but operation efficiency deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the three-dimensional view interface and two-dimensional view interface into a single integrated display environment. The system allows simultaneous presentation of both 3D and 2D views within the same software application window, enabling users to analyze building information from multiple perspectives without switching between separate interfaces, thus improving operation efficiency while maintaining comprehensive analysis capability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a spatial arrangement dimension by positioning 3D and 2D viewports side by side or in overlapping regions within the same interface. This dimensional reorganization allows users to perceive both three-dimensional structural information and two-dimensional detailed information simultaneously, resolving the contradiction between comprehensive analysis and operational efficiency
2Loss of information
If users switch between different view interfaces to correlate building information, then information completeness is improved, but time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines multiple view types (3D and 2D) into a single integrated interface that presents building information from different perspectives simultaneously. This eliminates the need to switch between separate software applications or interfaces, reducing time consumption while ensuring information completeness through unified data access
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-loads and pre-processes building information data structures that support both 3D and 2D rendering capabilities. By preparing the data in advance in a unified format, the system eliminates the need for users to perform manual data conversion or switching operations, thereby reducing time consumption while maintaining information completeness
3Adaptability or versatility
If building information models are enhanced with auxiliary information display, then functional capability is improved, but model complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the building information model into distinct data layers: geometric data for 3D rendering and auxiliary information data for 2D display. This segmentation allows the system to handle complex functional requirements by processing different data types separately and then integrating them in the display interface, thereby improving functional capability without proportionally increasing model complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system introduces an intermediary data processing layer that converts and translates between 3D BIM data formats and 2D auxiliary information formats. This intermediary layer abstracts the complexity of data conversion from the user and the 3D model itself, allowing the model to maintain its structural simplicity while enabling enhanced functional capabilities through the intermediary's data transformation operations
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AI summary
Methods and systems for rendering two dimensional representations are described. These include receiving a digital file including data of a structure comprising floors and objects, extracting, from the digital file, a first aspect associated with an object included in the at least one floor and a second aspect associated with the object, mapping the first aspect extracted from the digital file to a drawing layer, generating a first plurality of drawing files from data representing the floors of the structure, generating from the first plurality of drawing files, a second plurality of drawing files corresponding to data representing visual-graphic characteristics of the objects and the plurality of floors and a third drawing file representing perimeter characteristics of each floor, generating a geometric feature file using the third drawing file, and rendering a two-dimensional representation of the structure using the second plurality of drawing files and geometric feature file.