(IN-DAPT With Light ring and diffuser array, rendered in Enscape)
I'm really excited to share with you some of our latest work, in a lead up to the Healthcare Facilities Symposium and Expo this week. Our most recent work includes a interactive AR user experience for Walters Healthcare Resources (WHR) to view several options for their IN-DAPT product in real time. (IN-DAPT is a flexible modular ceiling system solution).
Some background:
We have been working with WHR since 2017, and built the foundation for their BIM library. WHR specializes in a modular raceway system for Operating Rooms. As a consultant we developed their comprehensive BIM kit to develop shop drawings, as well as model coordination with other consultants for clash detection.
How its done:
The base of this XR experience was modeled in Revit, and leveraged the vast BIM library that was developed for this product line (more on BIM down below). This was the 'easy' part, as translanting BIM geometry from Revit to an AR platform was not trivial. Missing matierlas, missing parts, you name it. There are no great translators (at least free) from Revit to any of the major platforms for AR delivery. (Googles AR model viewer, or SwiftXR).
An intermediary modeling software (Blender!) was needed to not only translate the geometry in to the acceptible .glb format, but to also specify the right materials that would render accurately in the viewer. To add to the complexity, the best export format from revit is the FBX format, however Revit does not map its materials in to a corresponding material library that the FBX format could use.
So... another road block. I found a great you tube video that showed how to easily reuse the datasmith export from a previous release that enables a custom FBX exporter in revit 2022. Ultimately delivering this required the use of custom add ons, but with a bit of digging, was able to use the 'magical' powers of blender, and the easy to use platform of SwiftXR to easily deliver this product to WHR end users.
A bit on BIM:
On the surface it may look simple from a modeling perspective, but the raceway is not the only component, and includes multiple integrated systems. Although it is the core product, theit are multiple structural system(s) to hoist the raceway, along with the other ceiling medical equipment, to create a variety of options. Thisadds mutiple layers of flexibility, and complexity from a systems standpoint. The entire kit had to be engineered to meet fabrication and shop drawings, but maintaining its intelligence, and adaptaibility. From a BIM perspective the system is heavily component driven, leveraging the nesting behavior of Revit to re use, rather than re-create the vast number of parts required to build these systems.
(3D image of a secondary structure fabricated to anchor the ceiling mounted equipment)
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