ArcGIS Indoors: Turn Your CAD and BIM

Data Into a Workplace MapGreg Waite

ArcGIS Indoors – Lead Product Engineer

• Easily find workplace

information

• 2D & 3D maps and

visualizations

• Accurate indoor

positioning

• Sharing and

collaboration

ArcGIS IndoorsA Complete Indoor Mapping System

Indoors Information Model

Indoors Pro

add-in

Indoors Web

Indoors Mobile

Indoor

Positioning Systems

ArcGIS Enterprise

Work Orders

Assets

Incidents

CAD / BIM

3rd Party System Data

ArcGIS IndoorsA Complete Indoor Mapping System

ArcGIS Indoors Positioning Systems

Wi-Fi

GPS

location

Bluetooth

…or use Indoors without positioning

ArcGIS Pro Advanced• 3D Analyst• Network Analyst• Data Interoperability• Spatial Analyst• Data Reviewer• Production Mapping

ArcGIS Enterprise Advanced• GeoEvent Server… unlimited viewer users

Survey 123… editor users included

Included Licenses

Facility (Building)

Site (Campus)

Level (Floor)

Sections (Wing)

Units (Office)

Zones (Restricted Areas, …)

• Floor plan feature hierarchy• Routing network dataset• Points of interest• Events • Tracking zones

Information Model

Where do floorplans come from?

• GIS

• IMDF

• BIM models

• CAD drawings

• Blueprints/Whiteprints

• Cocktail napkin?

• “I have nothing…”

Potential Data Sources

• If starting with BIM:

- Validate survey and project points

- Validate units in project configuration

- Create rooms and room tags as necessary

- Georeference

- Export to CAD

• Using CAD:

- Georeference

- Fix annotation formatting

Data Preparation Workflow

Preparing your BIM

and CAD data

• Do your floorplans show architectural features?

• Are walls/doors visible?

• Is the CAD labeled/annotated?

• Is the CAD projected?

• Is elevation data available?

• Is the CAD standard across all drawings?

• Is the layer naming consistent?

• Are all features properly connected?

CAD Data Considerations

• Empty layers

• Properties not set as “BYLAYER”

• Feature types collapsed into a single layer

• Lines defining polygon feature that do not close

• Topology errors

• Lines not drawn as polylines (LWPOLYLINE)

• Donuts draw as additional polyline/polygon features

• Using ellipses, splines, or arcs

• Annotation does not reside within their associated polygon features

What can make CAD bad?

• Annotation makes significant use of leader lines

• The DWG file contains objects like: hatch, solid, xref, line, dimension line, groups,

unused clocks, unused line types, unused hatch styles, etc.

• The drawing has elevation, width, and thickness

• The drawing has 3D objects

• The drawing has proxy objects

• Layers are off instead of frozen

• External references are bound using the Insert option

What can make CAD bad?

• Install ArcGIS Indoors for Pro

- Install ArcGIS Pro Indoors Product Data

• Load CAD data into Indoors

- Review CAD drawings

- Configure excel mapping file

- Create Indoors geodatabase

- Import CAD using Floorplan To Indoors

• Review Indoor data for quality issues

- Validate topology

- Execute Data Reviewer batch jobs

Data Transformation Workflow

• Enable routing

- Update Unit Z values

- Create Points of Interest for navigable spaces

- Generate Indoors network

• Prepare a workplace map

- Update the Indoors Configuration and Categories tables

- Share the network service

- Share the configured Indoors web map

What’s Next?

Transforming your

Data and Preparing

the Indoors Map

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