Transforming Planning, Engineering and Operations with Geospatial Context
Announced on November 15, 2017, the alliance partnership between Esri and Autodesk helps to connect “Make Anything” with “The Science of Where” through more tightly integrated BIM and GIS workflows, enhancing how infrastructure assets are planned, designed, built, and operated. This alliance enables Esri and Autodesk to better deliver on the promise of helping customers imagine, design and create a sustainable, more resilient future.
Esri and Autodesk are committed to the development of a more seamless exchange of spatial and attribute data typically captured in Esri’s GIS systems and the information from 3D BIM models in Autodesk’s design software.
What is GIS?
A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of geographical data. This data is typically associated with spatial characteristics; i.e., having some reference to specific location information.
In GIS, geospatial location data is usually coupled with attribute data – this provides users with information about “where” as well as “what” for a given geographical area. The combination of these data types makes GIS a highly effective planning and problem-solving tool, allowing users to use location as a key index in interactive queries to better understand relationships, patterns, and trends between places and things. Explore the Map
What is BIM?
BIM (Building Information Modeling) is an intelligent 3D model-based process that gives architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals the insight and tools to more efficiently plan, design, construct, and manage buildings and infrastructure.
The BIM process and technology is transforming the way that buildings and infrastructure are designed, constructed, and operated. And it’s helping to improve decision making and performance across the building and infrastructure lifecycle.
The Business Problem to Solve
As AEC, we are being challenged with creating innovative ways to manage and plan for sustainable smart cities and infrastructure.
We have data and documents stored in traditional silos, in multiple formats, and accessed by multiple desktop and web applications.
Solutions to solve for these challenges are often costly and one-off designs created for a single project or organization
Why GIS and BIM together?
With the integration of GIS and BIM at the center of infrastructure projects – houses, schools, roads, inter-modal transit facilities, drainage and energy networks, etc. – are no longer planned, designed and built in isolation of everything around it.
Infrastructure assets can be better viewed in relation to how that asset fits and interacts with the surrounding ecosystem. More tightly connected GIS and BIM workflows aid stakeholders involved in planning and design to better understand how the natural and existing built environment connects with the new assets to be built.
The promise of more tightly integrating GIS and BIM is to empower AEC firms and project owners to focus not only on what to design and build, but also better understand where and why, helping them to deliver more sustainable and resilient infrastructure through more economical, social, and environmentally responsible practices.
Existing Integrations
Today there are a number of integrations from between Esri and Autodesk.
Using the Autodesk Connectors for ArcGIS a Design Engineer using Civil3D or Infraworks can easily access shared content from Esri’s Web GIS platforms ArcGIS Enterprise or ArcGIS Online.
On the GIS side of the equation a Geospatial Professional can leverage ArcGIS Pro to connect to and read Revit and Civil3D drawings created using BIM processes.
In both cases the workflows establish a pattern of Desktop to Cloud connections in a way that moves the data to the middle and enables a more connected workflow when collaborating.
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