BIMStorm™ Alexandria, Virginia - Federal Friendly Zones™

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The BIM Education Co-op ™ would like to thank ONUMA, Inc., buildingSMART alliance™, NIST, the City of Alexandria, Design Atlantic and the many supports of the BIMstorm.

It is our privilege to provide this very simple walk through to allow new comers to BIM the ability to land an overly simple “building” on the Alexandria Courthouse Plaza.

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A virtual GreenFest will allow people with no previous computer skills to create a 10x10 “tent,” insert furniture, add comments and land the tent on the site in Google Earth.

First, go to www.ONUMA.com and click on the red BIMstorm box in the center - it’s there.

Experienced BIMmers can complete a full, but very LoD BIM in less than five minutes and understand how to apply the processes on complex projects

Click on Washington, D.C. At the right or the WAS box.

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Check out some of the information about the current line-up of BIMstorms.

Log in to the ONUMA Planning System™ - OPS Login (not the Exchange)Use your account or Call Mike Bordenaro (773) 252 5888 for a

demonstration account Login donated by ONUMA, Inc.

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If you look at this exercise as something you can have your boss do, it might not seem like it is too simple.

Click on the “List” box at the far left of the BIMstorm Alexandria Federal Friendly Zones

Scroll down to the Teamwork Scheme with “GREENFEST” in the title, click it.

Then click on the project titled “Patrick’s Site.”

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See the overall GreenFest plaza site and the tents/buildings already in place. They are listed on the right. Make sure you are in “Edit Mode”(1) and then click on “Add Empty Buildings” (2) under the list.

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Enter the name of your “tent,” disregard the automatically generated dimensions, click on fields and create a 10x10 building (1) and then click on Proceed to add Buildings” (2). This is a web-based Excel file.

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Click and drag your tent into the site (left).

Click on your tent’s name, which has been added to the bottom of the list (right).

- You are now ready to add a room inside your tent/building. Click on the word “Spaces” (1) and then “Add Empty Spaces” (2). - Create a space that is 10x10 (below). In this exercise the building name is the same as the space name. - Click Proceed at the bottom right.

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Click and drag the space so it overlays the building (left).

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Click on the word “Spaces” (1), and then click on the name of your space (2).

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Click on the word “Furniture” (1) and then click “Add Furniture” (2).

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Click on the Category (1), choose the furniture (2) click on “Add” (shown on next slide) click and drag furniture into the tent (3).

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In Five to ten minutes you have people walking into your tent. Maj. Patrick Suermann created this as his first building in OPS. Suermann is

an NBIMS leader and University of Floridia educator and PhD candidate.

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Add more furniture if you want and then click on Import/Export (1), and Export (2).

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Choose Google Earth in all of your next steps - did we mention you need Google Earth?

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Zoom into the Alexandria Historic Courthouse Plaza.

Cool!

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Congratulations - you are a BIMster!