AN OBJECT-RELATIONAL IFC STORAGE MODEL BASED ON ORACLE DATABASE
With the building models are getting increasingly complicated, the levels of collaboration across professionals attract more attention in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. In order to adapt the change, buildingSMART developed Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) to facili...
| Main Authors: | , , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Copernicus Publications
2016-06-01
|
| Series: | The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
| Online Access: | https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLI-B2/625/2016/isprs-archives-XLI-B2-625-2016.pdf |
| Summary: | With the building models are getting increasingly complicated, the levels of collaboration across professionals attract more attention
in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry. In order to adapt the change, buildingSMART developed Industry
Foundation Classes (IFC) to facilitate the interoperability between software platforms. However, IFC data are currently shared in the
form of text file, which is defective. In this paper, considering the object-based inheritance hierarchy of IFC and the storage features
of different database management systems (DBMS), we propose a novel object-relational storage model that uses Oracle database to
store IFC data. Firstly, establish the mapping rules between data types in IFC specification and Oracle database. Secondly, design the
IFC database according to the relationships among IFC entities. Thirdly, parse the IFC file and extract IFC data. And lastly, store IFC
data into corresponding tables in IFC database. In experiment, three different building models are selected to demonstrate the
effectiveness of our storage model. The comparison of experimental statistics proves that IFC data are lossless during data exchange. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 1682-1750 2194-9034 |