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Engineering data in the industry is created using different engineering application and comes in a different file formats. There is a need to combine and view all different files in one unified iModel format.
iModel Bridges helps to transform data from different engineering applications into iModels in iModel Manager. There are different iModel Bridges, that transforms specific engineering data in to unified Imodel format. Many iModel Bridges can be associated with a single iModel and convert multiple engineering files in to one single iModel.
Existing modeling applications, whether from Bentley or other vendors, can contribute changes from digital engineering models to the iModel’s timeline of changes.
iModel Bridges exist to transform data from other data formats into iModels. Many iModel Bridges can be associated with a single iModel, and hence the resulting iModel becomes an agregator of many sources of data. iModel Bridges need to carefully transform the source data to BIS-based data in the iModel and hence each Bridge is written for a specific data source.