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bim+ Introduction
- bim+ is an open, "All-Connect" platform for connecting people, information and BIM models to build faster. bim+ is Open BIM compliant.
- bim+ provides universal access, sharing and connection of relevant building information; enabling seamless collaboration among all people in the project
- bim+ is designed, using the latest Internet computing, cloud technologies, mobile devices and social communication.
- bim+ is the future of the Internet based building Industry.
- You can find more information about bim+ from our Bimplus website
- What is bim+ ?
- Benefits of Bim+
bim+ API
bim+ API provides RESTful services for accessing, creating, modifying and deleting different levels of information in a building model on our bim+ platform. It connects the building project information to a vast number of developers providing innovative Apps / applications that can operate on the building models and information.There are four types of database operation defined for manipulating the building content. i.e Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD) can be performed against the resources(URI, which are building information in our case) which are essentially the building blocks of REST.
The following HTTP methods implement these operations in the persistent level:
Operation |
SQL |
HTTP |
---|---|---|
Create a resource on the server |
INSERT |
POST |
Retrieve the resource from the server |
SELECT |
GET |
Update the resource on the server |
UPDATE |
PUT |
Delete the resource from the server |
DELETE |
DELETE |
All necessary information for resource manipulation will be sent within a HTTP request. It includes
- Resource identificator (URL)
- Data type / format (HTTP header)
- Authentication information (HTTP header)
- Operation, which will be performed against the resource (HTTP method)
Things to remember:
- The JSON objects which will be used as the bim+ data exchange format will be based on the IFC standard in terms of structure and naming.
- The resource paths contain the team name and the project name to support multi-tenancy.
- The project slug (which should be provided during the creation of a project) should be provided as part of the URL for accessing all the project relevant resources. This is also necessary to verify the user's access rights on the project in an early stage of processing the API call (before any business data will be touched and any business logic will be executed)
Connect with bim+ and become a bim+ compliant developer/partner
- Bimplus portal is the first place of contact of the user/developer for using the bim+ platform. It includes a shop where you can purchase different editions of bim+ cloud platform. Here you can also find a few critical foundation apps like the bim+ Explorer, bim+ Viewer and bim+ Problem Spotter. The portal takes care of the user registration(developer registration) as well.
- The bim+ API provides an interface for accessing the building information and models. It connects the building project information to a vast number of developers providing innovative Apps / applications that can operate on the building models and information.
The following figure describes the relation between the bim+ portal and the API.
- Please register here for accessing the bim+ resources and become a bim+ compliant developer and a partner. You will receive an authentication token after the registration.
- A Team is a tenant/company which work on the projects. The team has to be specified and setup through the bimplus portal as so called slugs to present a clean URL . The team slug will be used to know which tenant database to work on.
- Using the authentication token and the team slug, you can start working with the building projects which you are a member of, using our bim+ api.
- Please find a quick start tutorial here .
bim+ Services
bim+ API provides RESTful services for accessing, creating, modifying and deleting different levels of information in a building model on our bim+ platform.
These are the project relevant services available at the moment:
- Project Service
- Object Service
- ElementType Service
- Division Service
- Attachment Service
- Issue Service
- Pin Service
- Import Service
These are the administration relevant services available at the moment:
For further details see the bim+ api reference
Client request example: