This is a standard that may be used for free by any organisation that authors BIM objects with the aim of setting a level of quality across the industry. The new mini-website went live last week and this now includes pages and pages of useful technical guidance.
This blog post looks at some of the clauses in the standard and their associated guidance. Early feedback from the industry on the standard are good. In addition, we are starting to see more and more design and construction organisations using it and also manufacturers either adopting it when authoring their own objects or asking others to author for them.
The standard contains five main sections.
- General requirements
- Information requirements
- Geometry requirements
- Functional requirements
- Metadata requirements
Each section has numbered clauses and uses consistent terminology. When the user hovers over a term a definition pops up in a tooltip. There is also a "G" icon which can be clicked on to display the guidance. Examples of these from each section are below...
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| Example of the definitions of each term (highlighted with dotted underline) |
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| Technical guidance giving commentary and examples of what to do and what not to do |
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| Suggestions on how to model space data associated with an object |
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| Practical recommendations on file sizes and host objects |
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| Sensible rules on file naming - without trying to duplicate information that exists within the property values |
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| A very well researched piece of work that references international and national standards |
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| Terms and definitions that are consistently used throughout |
It will be great to see the whole industry get behind this standard and allow a level-of-quality to be set for all those creating or asking for BIM objects.
Check out the mini-website now...
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