【文章內容簡介】 specific Property in Facility Manager. The information shown here is from the sample project that ships with the application.Facility drawings are an important ponent of facilities planning and management, and Facility Manager allows two different types of drawings to be used: space plans and plan views. A space plan is objectbased, prising of the drawing geometry linked to the associated data of spaces and/or equipment objects in the FMDesktop database. It is the main feature that integrates facility drawings with the facility data. A plan view, on the other hand, is a static layout that only contains drawing geometry without any associated information about the drawing. Plan views are used to highlight important facility features, such as mechanical system layouts, electrical distribution layouts, and fire evacuation plans. Section and elevation drawings, when necessary, can also be brought in as static plan views. Figure 3 shows an example of a space plan as well as a plan view of the same floor of a facility. Both types of drawings are imported into Facility Manager using the DWF format. While any type of drawing can be imported as a plan view, importing a space plan requires the use of space metadata contained in applications such as Revit Building , Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2007, and Autodesk Building Systems 2007. Given that the use of AutoCAD is still so widespread, the ability to import AutoCAD data in the form of a space plan is also available in the form of the Facility Link application in the FMDesktop suite. This is designed to run inside AutoCAD, version 2005 and later, and allows the space and asset data records in the FMDesktop database to be linked to the corresponding graphics in an AutoCAD drawing, which can then be imported into Facility Manager as a space plan.Figure 3. An objectbased space plan showing the link to space records (top image), and a static plan view showing the network map of the same floor (lower image).Once the facility drawings are imported and integrated with the associated data, Facility Manager can be used to carry out the wide array of management tasks described earlier. Since it incorporates DWF technology, it includes all of its viewing and markup capability (see top image of Figure 4). Facility managers can retrieve and edit selected data from any drawing or from multiple drawings, run queries to get needed information, generate onthefly graphical or databased reports, identify asset relationships, dynamically initiate work orders, and export required information to a spreadsheet, a text document, or a database. Since the space plans are objectbased, it is easy to generate colorcoded drawings based on specified criteria, such as vacancy, occupancy by department, project schedules, cost centers, and so on (see lower image of Figure 4).Figure 4. Other capabilities of Facility Manager, including markups (top image) and generation of onthefly colorcoded graphical reports (lower image).The capabilities of Facility Manager can be extended by the remaining two applications in the FMDesktop suite mentioned earlier, Facility Web and Facility Request. Facility Web allows the facility data created and maintained in Facility Manager to be published online, enabling broader access to the facility drawings, data, and reports by anyone who needs them. Access can be given to anyone in the organization or only to specific users. The online version allows the data to be queried and includes the ability to create and share drawing markups. Facility Request is also a webbased application, and allows people throughout an organization to easily submit work requests to maintenance managers and facility managers for a specific location, as well as check back on its status later.Now that we have a better idea of how FMDesktop works, let us move on to see how BIM data can be brought into it from an application like Revit Building.Getting BIM Data into FMDes