Interoperability is the glue that holds the AEC systems together. Learn how sharing 3D data into Revit is evolving, the challenges, and the future. Why translating 3D data is critical for interoperability? The growth in the application of portable devices and the digitalization of the building industry create a digital universe with multiple engineering applications and 3D data formats. Sharing different data sources across various engineering applications ensures project coordination between land surveyors, architects, engineers, quantity surveyors, interior architects, and building owners. The geometrical boundaries of each model are critical to assess project decisions and cost evaluations and must be translated accurately. The growth of 3D assets More and more assets are being made available today, increasing the demand for data translation across applications. One area with enormous development is digital models of terrain taken from drones with a precision of 1 cm. Such models can be turned into meshes that include texture and saved in 3D exchange formats. The accuracy and the speed of creating such models make them very price competitive and allow a truly rich 3D source of information. Any professional with a Lidar-equipped iPhone PRO can survey rooms into meshes and import them into […] read more