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From 2D Drawings to 3D Navigation
Networks with FME
Steve Grise
Solution Architect, Vertex3 Inc.
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UW Seattle Routing
 Room-room routing at one of the
largest campuses in the world
 Over 1700 floors and 25M sq ft
 2D CAD drawings for routes
 FME used to transform to 3D
 Synchronized updates with Floorplan
changes
 Hourly/daily updates with change detection
 GISi Indoors routing application
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Toronto Area Comparison
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Sync Engine Processing
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Routing Sync Process
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Key Drawing Functions
 Project data to Web Mercator
 Add Z values based on layer & floor info
 Add routing attributes
 Create Room points
 Connect Doors to Room Points
 and Rooms within Rooms
 Add waypoints
 Sync
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Workbench View
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Key Building/Campus Functions
 Construct Elevators
 Connect floors with elevator rooms
 Snap between floors
 Sync
 Connect exterior lines to buildings
 Add points of interest
 Create new file geodatabase
 Sync
 Build Network
 Swap File Geodatabase
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Elevators are Tricky!
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Elevator Constructor
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Attribute Handling
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Databases
Staging
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Cadsde
(all)
deltas
Campus
GIS
Navigation
File GDB
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Summary
 2D CAD drawings by floor
 FME transformation
 Floors
 Buildings
 Campus
 3D network dataset in file Geodatabase
 Navigation app
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Thank You!
 Questions?
 For more information:
 steve@vertex3.com
 http://vertex3.com
 http://gizinta.com
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