Re: BMG

[Michael Craig <mic@graphics.lcs.mit.edu>]

hi,

thanks for your interest. i hope to have some initial code ready for
release in the next week or two. MIT's floor plans--and, we gather, most
all floor plans created--have their own strange and often annoying
problems. the current code is aimed at reading MIT's plans, but in as
general a way as possible. with a little modification it may work fine on
other plans.

room labels are currently used to identify spaces, but i am working on
other ways of finding verifying "correct" rooms.

if you are able to, some sample floor plans of yours might be helpful for
us to look at. let me know if that is possible. we are only taking DXF
files in, and manipulating plans as UniGrafix files the rest of the way.

let us know if you have more questions.

thanks,
michael


On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, David Holland wrote:

> Dear BMG Group@MIT:
>
>     Rapid prototyping of buildings is catching on.  We here at Cubic
> have been working with autocad drawings, bringing them into a format
> known as BRL-CAD (Ballistics Research Laboratory CAD).  Our drawings,
> like many things about the DoD, tend to be "in their own world" and,
> hence, idiosyncratic.  For example, many (but not all) of our drawings
> have no room labels, thus calling for other data extraction strategies
> such as the matching of subgraph isomorphisms.
>
>     You mentioned that the walls module is under heavy development.  I
> was wondering whether, perchance, that part of the pipeline will be
> available in the near future.
>
> regards,
>
> David Holland
> Software Engineer
> Cubic Defense Systems, Inc.
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