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How can i create 3D IMDF?

  • 7 October 2019
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Hello,

I am Tolga, and I try to create 3D IMDF file for indoor mapping. In my project, i have a 3D revit model, and i want to use this model for facility management. For facility management, it can be better if it has indoor mapping. For this purpose, i started researching IMDF, but there is no document about creating 3D IMDF. My question is how can i create a 3D IMDF file using revit? Is that possible? If any document exist in this topic, can you share this with me?

Thanks for all,

Tolga YÜCEL


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I'm not too familiar with this format, but as far as I know there is no 3D support as such. By which I mean the geometry that is written is all 2D. However, you can create a feature called Level, which denotes the position relative to other levels in the building.

So, for example, you could create levels 1,2,3 and then tag a kiosk as being level 2, a fixture being level 3, and so on.

What you need, I believe, is a feature type in FME called Level. That creates the level feature. Then you tag other features with an attribute level_id, which specifies the level it belongs to.

You can find more information in our tutorials on IMDF here: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/73930/creating-and-validating-imdf-format-datasets.html

I hope this is useful to you.

I'm not too familiar with this format, but as far as I know there is no 3D support as such. By which I mean the geometry that is written is all 2D. However, you can create a feature called Level, which denotes the position relative to other levels in the building.

So, for example, you could create levels 1,2,3 and then tag a kiosk as being level 2, a fixture being level 3, and so on.

What you need, I believe, is a feature type in FME called Level. That creates the level feature. Then you tag other features with an attribute level_id, which specifies the level it belongs to.

You can find more information in our tutorials on IMDF here: https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/73930/creating-and-validating-imdf-format-datasets.html

I hope this is useful to you.

Thanks for your answer Mark,

It will be helpful for me, i will try to create levels. Maybe it can be useful.

Regards.

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