What is a consolidated CIM and why is it used?
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 10:25 am
Every month, more and more Russian companies from the construction sector are undergoing digital transformation and implementing domestic software products in their projects and business processes.
However, many of them do not immediately succeed in mastering new software. In addition, a generation of young professionals is growing up in universities who have never met giants like Autodesk.
Therefore, it is very important for all these people to understand in detail each stage of working with digital canada email list models using Russian software. For example, how to assemble a consolidated digital information model. This is exactly what BIM consultant for linear objects and Russian software enthusiast Gennady Kuporov talked about at the June BIM breakfast.
Gennady Kuporov decided to demonstrate the capabilities of Russian software using the example of a consolidated digital information model of a road. He spoke about several software products that he had the opportunity to use to implement information modeling technologies in design and survey organizations. But first, he gave a definition of a consolidated DIM.
A consolidated digital information model is a digital information model of an object consisting of individual digital information models/engineering digital terrain models, interconnected in such a way that changes to one of the models do not lead to changes in the others.
“That is, it is a fairly static tool obtained from specialized CAD systems,” the BIM specialist emphasized.
First of all, consolidated CIMs are created to visualize project solutions. Having assembled a consolidated model, you will be able to clearly present your project to the customer or investor. The second, more important, in the opinion of Gennady Kuporov, purpose of a consolidated CIM is to participate in interdisciplinary checks. That is, it helps to understand how correctly the developer of each individual model has completed his task, and to link all parts of the project with each other. He also mentioned the use of a consolidated model in such tasks as: collecting and analyzing volumes of materials, linking elements and data to the CIM, and visualizing stages of work and readiness statuses.
Russian software for consolidated CIM
Gennady Kuporov told the BIM breakfast audience about several specialized software products for working with CIM: for creating consolidated models of linear objects, checking models, and for managing project data.
Topomatic Robur - Formation of a consolidated CIM
Topomatic Robur has a functionality for organizing collaborative work called "Master Project". Robur tools allow you to collect all the models (road, utility networks, development, etc.) together and then check the overall model and save the project in the open .SMDX format developed in Topomatic. The resulting consolidated CIM will contain not only a three-dimensional digital representation of the object, but also all the documents that you upload there, including photographs and various reports. Robur also allows you to save the consolidated model in several IFC formats: 2.3, 4.1 and 4.2.
Larix.Manager — CIM collision check
However, many of them do not immediately succeed in mastering new software. In addition, a generation of young professionals is growing up in universities who have never met giants like Autodesk.
Therefore, it is very important for all these people to understand in detail each stage of working with digital canada email list models using Russian software. For example, how to assemble a consolidated digital information model. This is exactly what BIM consultant for linear objects and Russian software enthusiast Gennady Kuporov talked about at the June BIM breakfast.
Gennady Kuporov decided to demonstrate the capabilities of Russian software using the example of a consolidated digital information model of a road. He spoke about several software products that he had the opportunity to use to implement information modeling technologies in design and survey organizations. But first, he gave a definition of a consolidated DIM.
A consolidated digital information model is a digital information model of an object consisting of individual digital information models/engineering digital terrain models, interconnected in such a way that changes to one of the models do not lead to changes in the others.
“That is, it is a fairly static tool obtained from specialized CAD systems,” the BIM specialist emphasized.
First of all, consolidated CIMs are created to visualize project solutions. Having assembled a consolidated model, you will be able to clearly present your project to the customer or investor. The second, more important, in the opinion of Gennady Kuporov, purpose of a consolidated CIM is to participate in interdisciplinary checks. That is, it helps to understand how correctly the developer of each individual model has completed his task, and to link all parts of the project with each other. He also mentioned the use of a consolidated model in such tasks as: collecting and analyzing volumes of materials, linking elements and data to the CIM, and visualizing stages of work and readiness statuses.
Russian software for consolidated CIM
Gennady Kuporov told the BIM breakfast audience about several specialized software products for working with CIM: for creating consolidated models of linear objects, checking models, and for managing project data.
Topomatic Robur - Formation of a consolidated CIM
Topomatic Robur has a functionality for organizing collaborative work called "Master Project". Robur tools allow you to collect all the models (road, utility networks, development, etc.) together and then check the overall model and save the project in the open .SMDX format developed in Topomatic. The resulting consolidated CIM will contain not only a three-dimensional digital representation of the object, but also all the documents that you upload there, including photographs and various reports. Robur also allows you to save the consolidated model in several IFC formats: 2.3, 4.1 and 4.2.
Larix.Manager — CIM collision check