2.1 SEM Drawings

As a construction company in our scope of works there are particular drawings showing all the openings in floors and walls available for services. Those drawings are really critical to understand if there’s enough space for all the services or if some additional opening is needed. This decision will impact not only MEP contractors but also Architects and Structural teams.

The basic idea is either to have an architectural or structural model and link all the systems or to link all the models, including structural, into a federated model (Combined Services Model). Dynamo is really powerful when it comes to find intersections, extract information and place elements according to predefined rules so but, to be able to extract those information from linked models, you have to write some Python code. In this article I’ll try to explain my way to do it but, of course, is not the only and best way. Let’s start!