Open BIM Gas Supply

Any of the infrastructure programs (Water Supply, Sewage, Electrification and Gas Supply) can import a topographic model of the terrain if the project is connected to a BIM model located in BIMserver.center that contains an IFC4 file with the terrain data defined in an “IfcGeographicElement” type entity.

If an IFC of these characteristics is imported, the terrain will appear on the screen represented with contour lines and when the nodes of the network are introduced, the elevation of the terrain where they are located will be used automatically, greatly aiding in the definition of the network.

If additionally, the geometry of the terrain is to be visible in the 3D views of the program and in the 3D viewer of BIMserver.center, the IFC4 must have an associated GLTF file that includes that 3D view.

The reading of topographic models of the terrain is also included in the new equivalent infrastructure programs that are installed from the BIMserver.center platform (Open BIM Water Supply, Open BIM Sewage, Open BIM Electrification and Open BIM Gas Supply).

In the 2019.e version of CYPE software, its "suite" of urban infrastructure programs (Water Supply, Sewage, Electrification and Gas Supply) is included in the Open BIM workflow. From then on, the "suite" can be accessed, as it could until now, from the CYPE program menu (with its classic name); and as programs that can be downloaded from the "BIMserver.center" platform:

• Open BIM Water Supply
  Can be installed in Spanish, Catalan, French and Portuguese
  
  
• Open BIM Sewage
  Can be installed in Spanish, Catalan, French and Portuguese
  
  
• Open BIM Electrification
  Can be installed in Spanish, Catalan and Portuguese
  
  
• Open BIM Gas Supply
  Can be installed in Spanish, Catalan, English and Portuguese
  
  

Both versions of each type of infrastructure are the same tool, with the same way of working during the introduction, analysis, design and obtaining of the documentation of the installation. The only difference between the classic versions of the infrastructure programs and those that can be downloaded from the BIMserver.center platform, is that in the classic, the connection to a BIM model is optional and those of the BIMserver.center platform must be connected to a BIM model.

Some of the advantages of including the infrastructure programs in the Open BIM workflow are:

• Import the topographic model of the terrain
  If an IFC4 file exists in the BIM model, which is located on the BIMserver.center that includes the data of the terrain in an entity of the type “IfcGeographicElement”.
  
  
• Import the 3D view of other specialties
  
  
  
• Export the documents and 3D view of the installation to the BIM model
  
  
• Update the imported information of the BIM model