Connect your CAD Plans and Revit Models to Archibus

To effectively use Archibus, you must have floor plan drawings showing office space, vertical penetrations, open space, and so on available in Archibus and the mobile apps. The overall procedure is below, and is detailed for CAD and BIM in separate sections.

Note : Some sites choose to outsource their floor plan development. See Outsourcing Drawing and Data Development .

Overall Procedure

  1. Draw your floor outline (gross area) and room boundaries.
  2. Connect these boundaries to Archibus.
  3. You now have a set of records in the Archibus database. You can add more details to the rooms using the Space Console or the Define Locations task. For suites, see Suite Inventory process .
  4. When you finish depicting the areas on the floor, publish the floor plan as enterprise graphics so that Web Central and the mobile apps can display it.

CAD Procedure

CAD users work with the Archibus Smart Client Extension for AutoCAD to make floor plans available in Archibus Web Central and in mobile apps.

If you have CAD plans

Go to the CAD videos to watch the following:

  1. Prepare CAD floor plan drawings for Archibus video 
  2. Create gross area and room polylines with one of these methods:
    • Draw new gross and room polylines video 
    • Use existing gross and room polylines video 
  3. Register the polylines in Archibus and publish the floor plan video 

If you have a scanned floor plan

  1. Start from a scanned floor plan drawing video
  2. Publish as Enterprise Graphics

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BIM Procedure

BIM users work with the Archibus Smart Client Extension for Revit to make models available in Archibus Web Central and mobile apps.

If you have BIM models

Go to the Revit videos to watch:

  1. Register buildings, floors, and rooms video
  2. Register the internal gross area video
  3. Publish as enterprise graphics for use in Web Central.

Other steps

If you have a scanned drawing

Go to the Revit videos to watch:

  1. Create a Revit model from a scanned drawing and connect to Archibus video
  2. Publish the model 

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