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- 1. info@xbim.net Flex Overview Wednesday 17th February 2021
- 2. info@xbim.net Today’s webinar • Introduction to xbim • Overview of Flex • When to use xbim Toolkit / vs xbim Flex • Flex Code Demos • Working with xbim • Q&A
- 3. info@xbim.net What drives xbim? Democratising the use of building information from design to operate, through open standards
- 4. info@xbim.net How can xbim help you? • We help partners accelerate product development to launch new solutions • We help partners to drive new revenue streams. • We help partners move to the cloud via our enterprise grade Microsoft Azure platform • We provide “Process Automation” for BIM applications
- 5. info@xbim.net Founded by construction software experts Andy Ward CEO Dr Martin Cerny CTO Prof Steve Lockley CRO
- 6. info@xbim.net Open is in our DNA Xbim Flex Platform launched Ifc4x3 Support Support for Infrastructure Linear Assets BIM Workflow and Micro Services BIM Automation 2020 : Infrastructure, Automation - NetZeroFlow Start of Cloud- based version of xbim Professional services for Toolkit Users 2017 : xbim Ltd founded IFC4 support New WebGL Viewer 2015 : Viewpoint Tier2Tier DPoW Support for BIM Query Languages Providing the data for BIM Library & DPoW 2014 : NBS BIM Toolkit & National BIM Library COBie Compatibility Model Federation Moved to GitHub 2012 : 4Projects 4BIM Developed in conjunction with UNN Introduced a HTML5 web viewer Open sourced with Commercial- use licence 2010 : Released Open Source with 4Projects Initial .NET version of XBIM Capable of reading and writing IFC models 2007 : Prof Steve Lockley authors XBIM Toolkit
- 7. info@xbim.net Where we fit – BIM Server “openBIM® extends the benefits of BIM by improving the accessibility, usability, management and sustainability of digital data in the built asset industry.” Standards Adherence Product Open Platform “Digital records are to be in a format which is appropriately open and non- proprietary” Hackitt Report, 2018 Service Proprietary Common Data Environments BIM Libraries / Toolkits Cloud BIM Services Closed BIM Platforms Open BIM Platforms
- 8. info@xbim.net Toolkit Flex Cloud Platform Hidden costs & effort Your magic goes here! Our magic works here! Servers Model Processing Workflows Security & Permissions Collaboration Backups 3D Viewer Storage BIM Features & Data Versioning Your unique BIM Service Cloud APIs Reporting
- 9. info@xbim.net So what does xbim do? BIM files from design tools. E.g. • Autodesk Revit • Tekla, Bentley etc • Specialist Engineering tools Data 3D / wexbim Flex Cloud Platform Dat a 3 D Dat a Data 3 D wexbim Docs ISO OpenBIM Standards (IFC, COBie, BCF) Open source software library for IFC, COBie etc. Used by software developers Collaborative, cloud- based OpenBIM Platform and OpenAPI Useful BIM data A BIM “Data warehouse”
- 10. info@xbim.net Benefits of the Flex Platform • 100% based on OpenBIM, IFC • Transforms BIM files into a writable “database” • Highly scalable ‘serverless’ model processing • Powerful querying and data interrogation • Estate/Portfolio data-model • Simple and quick to develop services • Multi-user, multi-tenant • Sophisticated role-based access control • Business Process Automation / Workflows • Full control over data sovereignty • Technology agnostic (Open API) • Support and expertise of the xbim Team
- 11. info@xbim.net Which is best for me? Toolkit or Flex? Toolkit is great for: • When complete fine-grained control over the full IFC Schema • Creating new IFC models • Standalone Windows .NET applications/integrations • Short term transactional processing of BIM data Flex is ideally suited to: • Moving BIM applications to “the cloud” (especially Toolkit apps) • Projects with rapid “time to market” needs • Collaborating around large ‘federated’ models • When your software team are not .NET specialists • Overcoming challenges managing BIM Data over a project lifecycle. i.e. AIM/CAFM use cases
- 12. info@xbim.net
- 14. info@xbim.net How can I convert BIM files into something I can visualize and quantify? https://flexdemo.xbim-dev.net/
- 15. info@xbim.net How can I query / extract data from models?
- 16. info@xbim.net How can I query / extract data from models?
- 17. info@xbim.net Open API + OData = Structured Query Language (SQL) for BIM GET https://api.xbim-dev.net/odata/ cfc26c1b-1430-4046-b0a9-b941a6555a8b/Spaces? $expand=Model($select=AssetId),Components($top=0;$count=true)& $select=Name,Description,LevelName,ModelName,BaseQuantities__GrossFloorArea, […]& $filter=Model/AssetId eq 41824 and Model/AssetModelId eq 41856 and BaseQuantities__GrossFloorArea/Real gt 100& $top=40& $count=true
- 18. info@xbim.net How can I query / extract data from models?
- 19. info@xbim.net How can I maintain / augment data in models?
- 20. info@xbim.net How can I create a simple secure collaborative BIM service?
- 21. info@xbim.net Demo Summary ● Converting model Files ○ Federation, Estates ○ Access Control & Permissions ○ 3D Visualisation (Web and Windows) ● Querying BIM Data ○ Flex Query language ○ Managing BIM Attributes ● Editing BIM Data ○ Creation of new records ○ Linking & Associating records ○ Editing Attributes ○ Version Control & Time-machine ● Flex Webkit / Flex Demo ○ For Rapid Application development ○ 3D Viewer and Data Controls
- 22. info@xbim.net Coming soon: Net Zero Flow project 1. Develop a Smart Workflow Automation Engine for BIM Processes. Building on the Flex OpenBIM platform this will enable knowledge workers to orchestrate complex validation, augmentation and calculations around BIM data; enabling repeatable digital data flows compliant with ISO19650 processes. 2. Create a micro-service on the Workflow Engine enabling Lifecycle Carbon Assessment calculation & reporting. Extend Circular Ecology’s ICE Embodied Carbon database so that is OpenBIM compatible, product and Net Zero focused. 3. Extend the existing Flex platform to support the interoperability with third-party data sets i.e. Carbon Data, Operational cost data, Manufacturers' data. 4. Extend the open source xbim toolkit to support the new international standards for infrastructure projects (IFC4.3)
- 23. info@xbim.net We’re looking for partners We’re looking for: ● Existing software business or function serving the building industry with BIM needs ● Identifiable clients and projects ● New use cases for Flex Our business model: ● Partner with software businesses and BIM specialists in the sector ● Jointly work with partners to help them build & integrate a viable service ● Provide the Flex Platform on a commercial subscription
- 24. info@xbim.net Q & A Any questions on the Zoom chat?
- 25. info@xbim.net Thank you Get in touch andy.ward@xbim.net @xbim_ltd 11 Lansdowne Terrace Newcastle upon Tyne
Editor's Notes
- This is where we can speak to the audience and out Go- To – Market. Xbim has a partner model where we go to market with and through partners. At the end of the presentation we will tell you more about this, what we look for and next steps. This webinar will most relevant if you are part of a software business/ function who is looking to build new application in the cloud
- What do we offer partners Who we work with (high level)
- Steve Lockley – practising architect, expert in BIM data, creator of open source xbim Toolkit Martin Cerny – software engineer, major author of xbim opensource, geospatial solutions expertise and Standards expert Andy Ward – expert in developing software architecture, especially and cloud-based software; PaaS and SaaS, security expertise
- Here
- NB Iceberg demonstrates the point that API takes away the pain – but the graphic needs some work Pretty much every BIM service we see is like an iceberg – you have a valuable innovative use case, but there’s a huge amount of hidden costs and effort to underpin it. [Click] [Click] [Click] That’s where Flex comes in. We provide a fully managed cloud-based building data management platform based on OpenBIM, which is trivial to integrate, so you can focus on the really valuable piece. [Click] As well as all those gnarly features under the water Flex, by turning BIM into data, gives access to a lot more “high value” use cases, including: Portfolio level reporting across projects/assets, Change management, taking BIM data into operation with a full writeable asset model.
- The xbim toolkit is an open-source set of software components used by developers and coders to read, write, visualise and exchange BIM Data using buildingSmart Open BIM formats – namely IFC, COBie, and BCF data. Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) in particular is the ISO open standard format for exchanging and storing BIM data. Think of it as the PDF or HTML for BIM. [Click] The xbim toolkit gives full access to the whole IFC data model, enables developers to work with the valuable information and geometry in these formats, and is ideally suited to developers using Microsoft .NET and ‘cloud’ technologies – that are prevalent in our industry. It also provides some free software tools that are used directly by end users who work with BIM data. For example xbim Explorer is a free model viewer. Later I’ll introduce xbim Flex, which is our new cloud-native BIM platform powered by the xbim Toolkit, which transforms how rapidly organisations can integrate and build new collaborative BIM services [NEXT]
- See Competitor doc
- How can I convert BIM files into something I can visualize and quantify How can I query / extract data in a BIM How can I collaborate around Building data securely How can I transform BIM data and integrate with other data sources How can I report on the health of my building data How can I keep BIM data current in operation? How can I supplement data?
- Talk to it and the demo upload of Dorm via Flex Demo NEXT: Extracting data
- A Windows client application
- Start in comms https://comms.xbim.net/flexdemo/conversations/583/edit/820 Revit
- What we look for What we offer (We want to be selective here. We want partner to pitch to us)