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Basic Topological Notions and their Relation to BIM

Basic Topological Notions and their Relation to BIM
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Author(s): Norbert Paul (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 22
Source title: Handbook of Research on Building Information Modeling and Construction Informatics: Concepts and Technologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jason Underwood (University of Salford, UK)and Umit Isikdag (Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-928-1.ch019

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Abstract

Each building sets up a topological space in the mathematical sense. Therefore every Building Information Model (BIM) has to store topological information. Such information can be found, for example, in the IFC (Liebich et al. 2005). The volume modelling part of the IFC uses a so-called ‘IfcTopologyResource’ which is a topological model on the local scope of each single building element. At a global scope, the ‘IfcRelConnects’ class and its subclasses are used for the connectivity of the building parts. This chapter presents a generalizing concept which handles both “local” and “global” connectivity information in a common way and provides means to mutually relate them.

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