import BIM to indoors dataset - no doors in details

[AnninaHirschiWyss]

Hi,

I'm using the "import BIM to indoors dataset" for data integration. But a ran into 2 issues:

- The tool "cuts out" the doors, but not all of them, I did not find out why by now,

- It doesn't store them in the details feature class.

This is a bit annoying, because the door features are needed to create the Building Entries and for visualisation purposes.

So my question : Is this by design, or is it a bug that the doors are not integrated in the details?

My workaround so far is to convert the "doors" multipatch into lines (via the multipatch footprint) and then append them to the details. The result showed that not all the doors were cut out during the BIM to indoors import (see screenshot)

EDIT: The reason for doors not getting cut out lies within the BIM: for some doors, there's a small threshold, and the BIM to indoors tool does not cut those and ignores that this is an opening... see screenshot 3D.

[IvanHurst]

Hi,

I am sorry that it does not fully work and I have not got a solution.

However I was very pleased to see your post which referred to BIM. I am retired now but was involved in BIM and GIS in the UK as it started to resolve its differences.

It is very pleasing to see that there is a BIM interface, albeit apparently not yet perfect.

Hope your problem is resolved soon.

Ivan

[SFrank · Accepted solution]

Hi @AnninaHirschiWyss,

I have a couple follow up questions for you to help get to the bottom of the missing doors:

1. Can you confirm that these doors are modeled in the  "Doors" category in Revit (and not as elements in General Model or another category)?

2. If you open the floorplan_polyline feature class from the Revit model in ArcGIS Pro are the Doors elements present?

[AnninaHirschiWyss]

Thank you @SFrank 

The doors are present in the "Doors" category, but they do not figure in the floorplan (neither polygon nor polyline). Only the ones that I thought didn't get cut out are there (those with the threshold), so I guess they are designed differently.

Do you have to specify something in the Revit that the doors figure in the floorplan? I could then get back to the client.

Thanks for your hints!