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Setting Up in the Real World – Generating real-world setting out coordinates
Marc Thomas
We have been asked how setting out coordinates for building components can be provided using real world coordinates, when we recommend modelling close to the Design File Origin. Recent enhancements to our Reports feature combined with knowledge from our…
over 3 years ago
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Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing : Large Sites
Marc Thomas
Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World In the case of linear infrastructure it is fairly obvious that each major facility along a route will have its own GCS. Other cases may be less clear cut. Take an airport. This diagrammatic example (the…
over 3 years ago
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Setting Up in the Real World or "Where do we model?"
Marc Thomas
Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World ’ve been picking away at the whole issue of where to model in 3D space for a long time. One of the sources of confusion is the use of ambiguous names or descriptions for some of the key concepts. The following…
over 3 years ago
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Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing, naming your transforms
Marc Thomas
Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World In MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 10 (and AECOsim Building Designer Update 4) we have introduced the ability to edit the description of an attached GCS. Previous articles in this series utilised individual…
over 5 years ago
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Setting Up in the Real World - SnakeGrid
Marc Thomas
Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World What is SnakeGrid? [updated with Jim Turner's comments; thank you Jim!] SnakeGrid takes a linear alignment and lays it out on a flat plane maintaining low distortion along a strip approximately 20km wide…
over 4 years ago
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Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing by Footprint
Marc Thomas
Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World Following the techniques used in Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing Update , a similar approach uses individual facility/building footprints as the guiding geometry. This allows the individual…
over 3 years ago
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Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing Update
Marc Thomas
Series Index - Setting Up in the Real World This article is an update of the earlier Setting Up in the Real World – GeoReferencing piece with a slightly simplified workflow to create the transformed GCS and using different example data. Background…
over 5 years ago
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Creating a Geographic Coordinate System in BIM Projects
Jabez Alcantara
Product(s): AECOsim Building Designer Version(s): V8i SELECTseries6 Environment: N\A Area: General Subarea: N\A Overview: This Wiki article describes a best practice workflow for incorporating…
2 months ago
OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon
OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon Wiki
Geographic coordinate systems
Johan V
I´m trying to Georeference my project but I get a to big distance error. I have attached a Geographic Coordinate system to my site files and then used "Define Placemark Monuments" to define my local system. And I get a distance error of 150mm on…
over 10 years ago
OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon
OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon | Forum