Hypermodeling infuses the project’s documentation into the 3D model, automatically.
After using BIM for 10 years myself I noticed it goes only half way (or less). To automate documents is one thing, but this does nothing at all, really, to improve the communicative effectiveness of documentation, the purpose of which is - to communicate effectively. It's about the medium of communication itself, which needs improvement. This is achieved (now) by infusing the project’s documentation into 3D, automatically. ..which is not unlike infusing synchronized audio into moving picture, because doing so elevates the effectiveness of both audio (contextualized in picture) and picture (clarified by synchronized sound). Without Hypermodeling, you're just making silent film - speechless 3D that cannot be delivered because it carries nothing but ambiguity. Now the model is clarified by exactly what the team said it wanted to say about a project in its documentation..
I see. This sounds to me, what you are asking for, sounds like the link healing we do with i-model publishing. Publish to i-model does this link redirection so that links are automatically re-written to point to the published items instead of the originals. I will have to ask someone knowledgable here about similar functionality for pdf publishing.
Sorry for the typo's looks like there is no way to edit blog comments.
Sorry Rob, I did not intend to imply that you were deleting my post. That was another time and place.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong but here is the issue. I place a dgn link in a file to point to another dgn/model. I and follow it to the DGN no problem. Fine that works as it should. Now I got and print to pdf. Link still points to the dgn. That does me no good. I need the link to point to a PDF of that DGN. So when I'm in a PDF view I move from PDF to PDF when I'm in MicroStation I move from DGN to DGN with the need to maintain multiple sets of links.
What would be really nice is if plotting could scan the links and create a full drawing set based on all related linked documents.
Hmm. I never delete anything here (I am an anti-deletionist), I'd like to get you involved in early adopter testing when your time frees up some. Let me know.
We are interested in additional linking possibilities, many of which already work.
Last I checked our links do survive publishing to pdf.
Well lets just say sometimes when I speak my mind the messages have a way of disappearing of the site.
It looks interesting. Also looks like a lot of up front information may need to be known. That is usually the downfall of such schemes. I think success will depend on how dynamically (and easily) you will be able to add or modify items.
I am advocating the guy on the ladder carry the electronic device. Especially when you move into your life cycle phase. Repairs, maintenance, inventory. Theres is no technical reason you can't have the data for an entire plant in your pocket right down to manufactures specs and manuals. The trick is coming up with a way to effectively display and navigate that data on a small screen device.
This also brings up another issue. There is a huge amount of existing 2D data for facilities. I don't know that is practical to totally rebuild it in a 3D model. I need ways to leverage my existing 2D data and get it on to a hand held device not be tethered to the internet. Right now that means manually building all the links and loading SVG and PDF files on to a iPad. This is proving to be a rather time consuming process but is really slick when you get it working.
Having DGN links that convert to PDF links and documents would go a long way. Of course my preference would be a good iModel viewer/markup app for the iPad so I could eliminate the PDF part all together.