BIM United FC

• BIM is Building Information Modelling
• FC is Function Collection

Andrew Siddeley 16-Mar-2017

BIM United FC is

• Building Informarion Modelling, designed for use in Architecture, Building, Construction, Design and Engineering
• Provides for administrating, browsing, creating, databasing (locally or externally) and editing a babylon scene
• Written in javascript and built on the excellent Babylon 3D gaming engine.
• Extends scene and mesh objects with a rich variety of powerful functions
• Project is versioned with Git and on maintained on GitHub

Javascript Libraries included

Library	Functionality
bootstrap	HTML user interface
jquery	module extension, UI widgetry and DOM
node js	local database conectivity
mongodb	non SQL database for local storage
require	module management of project

Analogues

BIM

Babylon

--- | --- | model | scene | part | mesh (with added bim handler) tool | actionManager ui | debug layer

Usage

BIM united has five steps to get going; also known as the a.b.c.d.e functions shown below.

<script>
BIM.admin('username');
BIM.board(document.getElementById('myblackboard'));
BIM.canvas(document.getElementById('myCanvas'));
BIM.database('dbaccessAPI');
BIM.engage(optionsObject);

// OR chained together thus 
BIM.admin().board().canvas().database().engage();

// Note that leaving out arguments defaults to factory settings


</script>