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US 12,026,435 B2Granted
Building model user interface and method of use
AssigneeGraphisoft SE
InventorsPeter Mohacsi, Gabor Horvath
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Abstract
A system for building information modeling comprising a plurality of 2D documentation sets associated with a building. A 3D model associated with the building, the 3D model including a plurality of user-selectable controls, wherein each user-selectable control comprises an icon and an associated balloon that is generated when the icon is selected. The balloon for each user-selectable control comprising a first selection control that causes one of the plurality of 2D documentation sets to be shown after an animation sequence. The balloon for each user-selectable control comprising a second selection control that causes a transition to a 3D model having an overlay of the 2D documentation sets.
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A system for building information modeling comprising:
- a three-dimensional (3D) building model system operating on a processor having associated memory devices and data storage, wherein the data storage stores a plurality of code instructions that configure the processor to generate a 3D building model of a single physical building project having multiple licensees, the 3D building model of the single physical building project comprising:
- at least one stairway element between at least two separate floor structural components, wherein the floor structural components are disposed vertically adjacent to each other;
- a plurality of 3D room features on each of the floor structural components, where each 3D room feature has a plurality of associated separate wall structural components, the separate floor structural component, one or more door elements, one or more window elements and one or more closet elements;
- wherein the separate wall structural components and separate floor structural components are continuous between the plurality of 3D room features with in the single physical building project;
- wherein the 3D building model includes a plurality of embedded functional processor controls, each functional processor control configured to generate a user interface command that allows a user to select a function to generate a two dimensional (2D) floor plan, a 2D section view at a point of the embedded control and a hyperlink to an animation sequence starting at the point of the embedded control;
- wherein the embedded functional processor controls of the 3D building model cause the 2D floor plan and the 2D section view generated in response to the user selection are linked to one or more location in the 3D building model to allow the user to select a transition control within the 3D building model to transition between a 2D documentation sets and the 3D building model, to allow the user to generate an overlay of the 2D documentation sets at a predetermined location within the 3D building model, and to generate the animation sequence to transforms between the 2D documentation sets and the 3D building model in a sequence that creates a temporal relationship between the 2D documentation sets and the 3D building model;
- wherein each user-selectable control comprises an icon and an associated balloon that is generated by the processor when the icon is user-selected;
- the balloon for each user-selectable control comprising a first selection control that causes the processor to generate the animation sequence that ends with one of the plurality of 2D documentation sets;
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- the balloon for each user-selectable control comprising a second selection control that causes the processor to generate the animation sequence that ends with a view of the 3D building model having an overlay of one of the 2D documentation sets.
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A method for building information modelling comprising:
- generating a three dimensional (3D) building model associated with the building project having multiple licensees using a processor, the 3D building model including a plurality of user-selectable functional controls operating on the processor, wherein each user-selectable functional control comprises an icon and an associated balloon that is generated by the processor when the icon is user-selected, the icon associated with a specific physical location with the 3D building model;
- generating a plurality of 2D documentation sets associated with a building using a processor when a user selects the user-selectable control:
- generating a first selection control for the balloon for each user-selectable control of the specific physical location of the 3D building model that causes the processor to generate an animation sequence that ends with one of the plurality of 2D documentation sets starting at the specific physical location in the 3D building model;
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- generating a second selection control for the balloon for each user-selectable control that causes the processor to generate an animation sequence that ends with a view of the specific physical location of the 3D building model having an overlay of one of the 2D documentation sets.
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A system for building information modeling comprising:
- a plurality of separate 2D documentation sets associated with a building project having multiple licensees:
- a 3D model system associated with the building project that is separate from each of the plurality of 2D documentation sets and associated with each of the plurality of 2D documentation sets at a common point in a 3D model and an associated 2D documentation set, the 3D model including a plurality of user-selectable controls operating on a processor, wherein each user-selectable control comprises an icon and an associated balloon that is generated by the processor when the icon is user-selected;
- the balloon for each user-selectable control comprising a first selection control that causes the processor to generate an animation sequence that begins from a rest state in a 3D model and ends with one of the plurality of 2D documentation sets;
- the balloon for each user-selectable control comprising a second selection control that causes the processor to generate an animation sequence begins from a rest state in one of the 2D documentation sets and that ends with a view of the 3D model having an overlay of one of the 2D documentation sets;
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- a model license system operating on the processor and configured to transmit the plurality of 2D documentation sets and the 3D model in a format compatible with a viewer system to a predetermined licensed processor that is authorized to receive the plurality of 2D documentation sets and the 3D model if it is determined that the predetermined licensed processor has a previously-transmitted key that was previously transmitted by an operator of the 3D model system.
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