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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2014
Viewpoint, Inc., Portland, OR (US);
Richard Stokoe, Tyne and Wear, GB;
Laurence Skoropinski, Durham, GB;
Andrew Thomson, Blaydon, GB;
Andrew Burden, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GB;
Lloyd Pickering, Durham, GB;
Viewpoint, Inc., Portland, OR (US);
Abstract
A method for operating a building information modeling (BIM) system is provided. The method includes at a BIM server, in response to receiving a save tri-dimensional data command from a client computing device, associatively mapping identification data in each of a building model, a hierarchical structure of building model data, and a Construction Operations Building Information Exchange (COBie) spreadsheet and storing a representation of the associative mapping of the identification data for display in at least one of the BIM server and a client computing device in electronic communication with the server over a network.