Method, computer program product and apparatus for providing a building options configurator

摘要

A method for providing an options configurator may include receiving an indication of a hierarchical structure of building plan options applicable to an enterprise, enabling a user to define option sets including selected ones of the building plan options, enabling the user to associate different ones among the option sets with corresponding different entities within the enterprise based on distinguishing characteristics of the respective different entities, and providing for generation of building information models and their derivatives based on selected options within an option set. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.

主权项

1. A method executable by a processor comprising:
receiving an indication of a hierarchical structure of building plan options applicable to an enterprise; receiving rules defining relationships between options within the hierarchical structure; enabling a user to define option sets including selected ones of the building plan options; enabling the user to associate different option sets among the option sets with corresponding different regions based on distinguishing characteristics of the respective different regions; employing the rules defining relationships between options within the hierarchical structure in response to receiving selected options within the option set to both enable at least one option within the hierarchical structure and disable at least one option within the hierarchical structure; and generating by a processor, building information models and their derivatives based on selected options within an option set, wherein generating building information models comprises dynamically resolving a geometry of merged components in response to selection of the options to regenerate a building information model to include resolved components, wherein corresponding information defining parameters of each component associated with an option, and a combined structure is produced using the parameters associated with each option to dynamically resolve the geometry of merged components.