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For many organizations, the road (or is it an elevator?) to a functional indoor GIS begins with a folder full of CAD floor plans. However, the CAD data given to the GIS specialist may be missing key information, or geometries may not be constructed in a manner ready for loading into the Indoors geodatabase.    For ArcGIS Indoors to generate Indoors features from CAD floor plans, the Indoors Model relies on the relevant linework and text being present and positioned correctly in the floor plan drawings. Dangling endpoints and the occasional duplicate room number may not matter much when using a CAD drawing for construction purposes, but connected linework and unique room identifiers are generally required when building an indoor GIS for operational uses such as space planning, wayfinding, and workspace reservations.  To help with this, an ArcGIS Indoors plug-in has been developed for AutoCAD that can diagnose CAD floor plan readiness by checking for missing data or incorrect geometries before importing into the Indoors geodatabase. At time of publishing, the plug-in can check for the following conditions:  Unclosed room boundaries, where small gaps with dangling endpoints may prevent Units from importing as expected. For example, here’s a door swing arc (brown) that stops several millimeters away from connecting with a wall (gray). The plug-in marks (cyan) a door swing arc (brown) where it undershoots a wall (gray)  Self-intersecting polylines that loop back on themselves and may unexpectedly import as multi-part features. Missing or conflicting room names, which can lead to unexpected results when searching or wayfinding with an Indoors app.  The plug-in marks (cyan) conflicting room names (orange)  The plug-in marks these conditions on the drawing and lists each occurrence in an interactive table. The marks (cyan by default) and the table make it easy to quickly locate and review each occurrence, allowing the AutoCAD user to focus on fixing—rather than finding!—potential issues. Marked drawing with interactive table The ArcGIS Indoors plug-in for AutoCAD is now in private beta as a standalone plug-in (there are plans to integrate it into ArcGIS for AutoCAD® later in 2023). If you’re interested in participating in the beta, you can sign up here! ... View more

Prior to ArcGIS Pro 2.6, ArcGIS Indoors stored category information in a standalone table within your Indoors geodatabase. Now, with ArcGIS Pro 2.6, you can create, configure, and manage Indoors categories for your maps right in ArcGIS Pro. If you started using ArcGIS Indoors at ArcGIS Pro 2.4 or 2.5, you can upgrade your Indoors geodatabase to take advantage of the new Configure Indoors Categories tool and new capabilities of ArcGIS Pro 2.6. The ArcGIS Indoors team at Esri has provided tools to help automate the upgrade process. Download the resource ZIP below and extract it to its own folder. In ArcGIS Pro ribbon, click the Insert tab. In the Project section, click Toolbox > Add Toolbox. Browse to the folder mentioned in step 1. In the tools subfolder, select indoors-pro-2_6-upgrade-tools.pyt, then click OK. In the Catalog pane, expand the new toolbox and use the tools in order: First, use the Upgrade Indoors Database tool to automatically update your Indoors geodatabase schema. Then, use the Upgrade Indoors Categories tool to migrate category information from the Categories table directly into your maps. The resource ZIP includes an 01-read-me-first.pdf with details on each tool. You can download the resource ZIP here:  indoors-pro-2_6-updates-resource.zip ... View more

If you are working from a version of the ArcGIS Indoors Information Model created prior to ArcGIS Pro 2.6, the ArcGIS Indoors team at Esri has created a tool to support you in updating your Indoors geodatabase schema to support the new Space Planning, Office Hoteling, and Workspace Reservation capabilities of ArcGIS Indoors. Download the resource ZIP below and extract it to its own folder. In ArcGIS Pro ribbon, click the Insert tab. In the Project section, click Toolbox > Add Toolbox. Browse to the folder mentioned in step 1. In the tools subfolder, select indoors-pro-2_6-upgrade-tools.pyt, then click OK. The folder also contains draft documentation on how to set up new capabilities of ArcGIS Indoors. See the included 01-read-me-first.pdf to get started.   You can download the resource here: indoors-pro-2_6-updates-resource.zip  ... View more

This resource contains tools and documentation to help you upgrade your ArcGIS Indoors database to take advantage of the new tools and capabilities of ArcGIS Pro 2.6, including the Configure Indoors Categories pane, Space Planner, office hoteling, and workspace reservations. ... View more