This module is the new way to modelize your building. Following the hierarchical structure of an IFC, you will be able to generate a 3D model that can be exported to "ReCap" or "IFC".

To modelize your building you need first to set the "Bounding box":

• Modify: You let you move (by clicking the axis bars) and change the size (by clicking on the arrow of the axis bars) of the bounding box.
• Position: Let you choose between "Pick center", "Pick 2 points" or "Pick 3 points" to place the bounding box in your point cloud.
• Show: To display the bounding box on screen.
• Hide out: Allows you to hide or not, the points of the point cloud outside the bounding box.

Then you will click on  to set the parameters by default. This will determine the value by default when creating the corresponding object.

"Force opening wall" will create by default an opening in a wall when you are inserting an object (Windows or doors) of the same dimension as the object inserted.

"Height of level" will be determined automatically by the module when you create your levels, therefore there is no need to preset

"Draw solid objects" works the same as the "wireframe model" option in "View" and let you choose to see either the outlines of the objects only or to draw all the surfaces of the objects

"Sections Opacity" & "Opacity for solid" let you adjust the transparency level of those elements

To modelize your building you have access, by righ clicking, to:

• Sections vertical: Create vertical section. Can help you see better each level of your building.
• Levels: Add level to your 3d model.
• Level: Gives you the possibility to copy a level in top of having access to the options to add objects in your BIM
• Walls: Create multiple walls or join two walls together or delete them.
• Wall: Gives you access to the contextual menu to insert objects within the selected wall or change/invert the direction of the wall.
• Door/Window: Let you change/invert the direction of the selected object. Note that "Doors/Windows" let you delete by batch only.
• Slabs: Let you create floor or ceiling for each level. Note that by creating your floor first, the software will ask you if you want to automatically draw the walls from it.
• Columns: Create colomn object in your project.
• Opening Groups: Let you preset objects dimensions (Door, Window & Opening) to automatically insert them with the proper dimension and position instead of manually.
• Pick inside or  outside: To let know the software which way to draw the thickness of the object.
• Object properties: List of the differents informations about a selected object.
• Load: Load your BIM (.JSON) previously saved.
• Save: Save your BIM as a .JSON file in the directory of the project.
• Export to ReCap: Allows youy to share your cut in ReCap format.
• Export to IFC: Save your BIM in .IFC format
• From IFC: Allows you to import an .IFC to VisionLidar. It can be use to automatically populate your "Opening Groups" so you don't have to recreate them for each project you do.
• Close: Close the BIM module