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Working with BIM Data and FME

Liz Sanderson
Liz Sanderson
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Introduction

With FME you can convert and transform your BIM information to suit the needs of any stakeholder to ensure everyone gets the details they need. Read data from common BIM formats like IFC, Revit, and SketchUp and extract only the details you need like 2D floor plans, 3D shells, or specific attributes.
For a high-level overview of how FME can help you with BIM, see our website.

BIM Terminology

Building Information Modeling (BIM): commonly used in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry (AEC).  These models are digital representations of places, containing details about characteristics and geometry.  

Building Smart International (BSI): provides standards for BIM data.

Data Views: The Revit reader provides Data Views, which simplify complex BIM data for conversion into simpler formats. For example, the Floorplan data view extracts 2D floorplan representations of the 3D BIM geometry. These data views give you a head start on creating conversions from BIM to 3D, GIS, or CAD. For a list of the data views, please refer to the Revit reader documentation. The IFC reader does not presently provide Data Views. However, due to similarities between IFC and the RVZ file produced by the FME Exporter plugin, the Revit reader can be used to read many IFC files using Data Views.

Tutorials

Getting Started Articles

BIM and FME Tutorial

Other

​Format Documentation

Transformer Documentation

​​​​​​​Top Questions and Answers

Additional Resources

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Known Issues

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