C3D Sewer Network Preparation

Question

Hello Experts!  I need to hae a Civil Sewer Network in my GeoBIM App. What is the quickest and easyiest way to prepare in ArCGIS and bring to my Scene with the Sharedlink active and mainatined? The networks does not need to be full 3D. What i can accomplish with a simple shp in a scene is enough.

CiciXiao · Answer

If you want to visualize your Civil Sewer Network data later in ArcGIS GeoBIM, the process is a bit different 📢:

1. Upload CAD/BIM file to Autodesk Construction Cloud

2. Open ArcGIS Pro, add BIM Cloud Connection

3. Select the CAD/BIM file and click 'Download and Add to Current Map'

4. Open the attribute table of the CAD feature class or BIM Workspace, you can see a 'shareview' field that has the urn link to Autodesk viewer automatically generated

5. Use CAD to Geodatabase (in this case) or Make Building Layer for BIM data

6. Share to AGOL

7. In ArcGIS GeoBIM, create a project, link your Autodesk account, create an app that contains the datasource you just published.

8. When you select a GIS feature on the map, you can activate the Autodesk Forge viewer on the right with the selected feature highlighted in the viewer.

FCL · Answer

Found one way:

* Download DWG to Local Folder
* Add data to  Map View 
* Use CAD to Geodatabase
* Add to Map View
* Share Pipes & Share Structures
* (Fix ID Error before sharing)

Cheers, Frederic

ACheuvront · Answer

The only difference between a network with and without the shared view link is using the BIM Cloud Connector to bring in your source data. I'm not very familiar with the different methods to convert the Civil 3D data to a GIS sewer network so I don't think I can help with that. I would bet you would want to use the CAD to Geodatabase tool to convert the data as the starting point. As long as the source input file is from the BIM Cloud Connection you would get the shared view attribute automatically.

Any time you convert your data from CAD to GIS it is based on a point in time (unless the source of the data is from an enterprise geodatabase), so the ability to "maintain" the shared view link is based on the data at the time of publishing. If the source document is update, the data would need to be republished again. To use an enterprise geodatabase would require more infrastructure than just hosting a feature layer on ArcGIS Online. Even using an enterprise geodatabase would require some method of updating the data based on the changes to the CAD data if the CAD file is your source of truth.

The creation of the sewer network and/or using a geodatabase is not specific to ArcGIS GeoBIM.

Aaron Cheuvront | Product Engineer - ArcGIS GeoBIM
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