GeoBIM

Connecting Projects in Context

FACTS
Size: 1.99 GB
Software: ArcGIS GeoBIM, BIM360, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro 2.9
Database: .dwg, .rvt, .ifc
Other Software Required: Autodesk BIM 360 account; ArcGIS Online with GeoBIM user
type account
Platforms Tested: Windows 10
Audience: Utilities, AEC

PURPOSE
This demo will help you learn how to configure an ArcGIS GeoBIM solution for exploring building
information modeling (BIM) models, engineering documents, and project management issues in a
geographic context to analyze risks, costs, and timelines. Demonstrate how GeoBIM can help your
customer manage data by automatically georeferencing BIM documents, construction issues, and
projects into hosted feature layers in ArcGIS Online.

ArcGIS GeoBIM provides new capabilities to integrate and visualize GIS data side-by-side with
engineering documents to make coordinated decisions across project teams.

DATA SOURCES AND DESCRIPTION (Refer to Data Distribution Permission statement at the end of this
document)
Highlands Ranch was renamed from the Morpheus dataset provides by Autodesk, Inc. This is a fictional
rail development project from the Mineral Station RTD rail line up and across C-470 and ending at
the Children’s Hospital. Includes all reference information from Autodesk including: Architecture;
Civil Structures; Drainage, MEP; Parking Garage; Rail; Roadway; Shared, Site Grading, Structural
Bldg.; and Survey & Utilities. Data permission rights granted to Esri by Autodesk. See Project
Statement #2 to the Joint Marketing Agreement signed 6/24/2021 between Esri and Autodesk (Esri
Agreement No. 00274470.5) which gave Esri permission to use the following Autodesk data for
marketing and training activities relating to the launch of ArcGIS GeoBIM.

DEMO SETUP
See separate setup script.

TO RUN THIS DEMO SETUP

Launch ArcGIS GeoBIM.
Open the Highlands Ranch project created in the GeoBIM demo setup script.
Open the Highlands Ranch Viewer.
In another browser window, launch GeoBIM and the Highlands Ranch project, and open the Highlands
Ranch Issues Dashboard.
Open GeoBIM_ConnectingProjectsInContext.pptx, start Slide Show from the beginning – this is how
demo will open.

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DEMO SCRIPT
• Showing slide 1, but change to slide 2 (Building for the Future) when you begin speaking

Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) is constantly building for the future. To plan & design,
our best approach is to look through the lens of a Digital Twin.

• Next slide (Digital Twin)

Digital Twins allow us to build more sustainably: to plan better use of resources, design resilient cities
and infrastructure, and perform analysis and predictive maintenance – reducing costs and project
timelines.

• Next slide (BIM and GIS)

Building Information Models, or BIM, supply detailed information about built assets, whereas GIS
provides information about assets in the context of the Built & Natural environment. BIM provides
content, while GIS provides context.

• Next slide (Problems)

The problem is that there’s no easy way to bring BIM & GIS together and share it with all the project
stakeholders. As a result, project teams spend a lot of time sending content back and forth, which
wastes time & duplicates data in multiple systems. Together, this decreases project profitability.

• Next slide (ArcGIS GeoBIM)

ArcGIS GeoBIM solves this problem by bridging the gap between your BIM and GIS systems. GeoBIM lets
you connect data from Autodesk & ArcGIS and share this data together in configurable, easy-to-use web
experiences. This allows AEC professionals to find, manage, and share information quickly to keep
project teams moving forward.

Let’s take a look at how we Connect Projects in Context.

• Switch to Highlands Ranch Viewer; pan slightly while speaking below

Highlands Ranch in Colorado is a massive community – in fact, it’s the largest HOA (homeowner
association) in America. The buildings we see in the distance are almost all residential.

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The beautiful thing about GeoBIM is that we can click on our project data in the map for more details.

• At top of window, click Bookmarks icon

• Click the Urgent Care bookmark

• Close Bookmarks
• Click the roof of the building

Like this Urgent Care facility that’s recently been built. Being linked directly to our BIM project, …

• Click the button next to the BIM360 Highlands Ranch project

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we can access our BIM content directly in GeoBIM,

• Rotate the Revit file in the Autodesk pane

and interact with this Revit file, side by side.

• Click the Document Browser icon

We can use the Document Browser to quickly pull up other documents associated with this Revit file.

• Click Thumbnails, then click second one to open it; close Document Browser with X

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Thumbnails allow for a visual way to skim documents. This saves me a lot of time instead of looking for
files just by file name.

• Rotate the Ground Floor Revit file, then close the Autodesk pane
• Close the popup
• Zoom out to approximately the view in below screenshot

We can look at all of our facilities at once – giving us a clear picture of how these designs all come
together. We have a hospital, urgent care, and Civic Center in our Highlands Ranch project.

Let’s look a little closer at the Civic Center. They’ve made some progress on this building.

• Click Bookmark for Civic Center

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This HVAC system was installed on the roof – we can look all the way down to the detail of this system.

• Click on HVAC system

Now we’re able to see our BIM360 documents associated with this asset.

• Click on R21 Civic Center - MEP.rvt in Link Explorer to open in Autodesk pane

Since we’ve linked these assets in GIS and BIM, now we’re zoomed directly to the equipment we’ve
selected in the map. With Dynamic links, it’s always the most up to date content being referenced.

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 • Close Revit File

When the HVAC system was being installed, they were even able to pull up the installation manual from
GeoBIM. We can keep all of our content in one place and share with stakeholders to save everyone
time.

• Click series_itf.pdf in Link Explorer

• Open the Document Browser, go to Thumbnails, scroll and show all the pages
• Close Autodesk pane
• Close popup of roof HVAC

You may have noticed the colorful icons (red and blue cones) in the map – these are Issues in the
project.

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Project Issues are an important part of the entire project lifecycle, and they’re stored in Autodesk
Construction Cloud and BIM360. From Engineers to Electricians, many stakeholders access and track
those Issues.

The great part of GeoBIM is the ability to put these Autodesk Issues on the map. And we can create
Issues in GeoBIM

• Click the Issues icon

– and push those new issues back to Autodesk.

Looking at the Dashboard

• Switch to Dashboard

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With the dashboard we can visualize and navigate to any issue in the project.
Issues are displayed by type,

• Hover mouse over a couple of the types

with other indicators

• Hover over indicators

allowing us to quickly see the status of these issues.

We can see there’s a safety Issue in the Dashboard, we want to address Safety Issues right away.

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 • Click on the Safety slice on the top Pie Chart

• Click Display Issue Details in the Table widget.

• Click on the Issue that you are zoomed to on the scene.

This one is over by the pond; it doesn’t look like any assets are there. Let’s look closer and exactly what’s
happening here.

• Click Issue in Issues List to open in right panel

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It says “Check status of Pipe” – this must be the drainage network.

• Close popup
• Rotate map to look under the ground

Navigating underground, we can see there IS an issue with this pipe – it isn’t connected to the rest of the
network.

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 • Navigate above ground
• Go to Bookmark Issue

Being able to view this all together helps prevent more serious problems that could result from this pipe
issue.

• Close (X) Issue Pane.

• Minimize Dashboard Panel

Optional – Create new Issue in GeoBIM. (Refer to the setup document, page 18, if necessary.)

ArcGIS Online benefits

Being able to integrate these two systems is incredibly powerful, there are so many capabilities to
leverage in order to enhance our Project even further.

From ArcGIS Online, we can bring in additional data for context – like the building footprints for Denver.

• Navigate Scene to Slide/Bookmark or similar view as shown

We can add imagery from ArcGIS Online, or add our own drone imagery to monitor project progress.

• Bookmark > Footprints Imagery

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ArcGIS lets you do more than just add data. For example, we can also run some analysis in ArcGIS Online
- to gain a richer understanding of this area.

Let’s switch to the 2D map.

• To switch to the 2D map, click the map thumbnail in the lower left of the Scene view.

• Click on the black arrow icons on the sides and bottom of the Map view to hide the Dashboard,
Documents and Forge Viewer widgets.
• Bookmark > Buildings

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In our preliminary design, we started to think about the environment and engineering at once.
We did some analysis up front – we wanted to learn more about the community the Urgent Care will be
servicing. How many citizens can access our facility quickly?

To learn about the surrounding area, we ran a drive-time analysis.

What would a 5-minute drive-time to Urgent Care look like on the map?

• Turn on drive-time layer

• Zoom out to see it all or use Bookmark > Drive-Time

It looks like the Urgent Care facility is reaching quite a lot of people in the area – we can see how many
communities are in the drive-time polygon. But how many people should we plan for?

Using geo-enrichment in ArcGIS Online, we can select variables like Population, Spending, Income…
we’ve selected predictive variables here so we can plan for the future specifically for this drive-time
area.

• Zoom in and click on the drive time polygon to see popup with enriched variables

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This allows us to gain a deeper understanding of the surrounding environment and communities we’re
building in. We can then use this information to inform the design of our Urgent Care facility, right from
the start.

• Go back to powerpoint and play slide 8

By using ArcGIS GeoBIM we’ve been able to View our facilities on the map,

• Forward the slide

Explore our assets side-by-side,

• Forward the slide

Manage our project Issues,

• Forward the slide

and Add in more data for context.

• Go back to Slide 1 for conclusion

ArcGIS GeoBIM delivers an innovative, easy-to-use web-based experience for project teams to explore
and collaborate on BIM projects and issues using data from multiple systems in a geospatial context.

This enables us to save time, reduce costs, empower teams, and reduce conflicts by giving them access
to current and future project activity.

With GeoBIM, we’ve enhanced our Digital Twin - Connecting Projects in Context.

DATA DISTRIBUTION PERMISSION

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