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Most of the present day BIM systems do not have built-in environmental simulation tools. In this case such programs have relied so far on dedicated external simulation applications. Interoperability is therefore a major issue for BIM tools. But can data be transferred from BIM tools to simulation tools completely, understandable and ready to be used by the receiving application? In this paper we report an experiment that shows that the data transfer in the present day still requires a set of complex procedures such as preparing the files to be passed from one application to another. The data transfer from the BIM tools to environmental simulation tools seems to be quite complete, understandable and ready to use by the receiving application. However, data transferred in the opposite direction is much less customized to the receiving application and needs to be configured manually.
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Ferrari, P.C., Silva, N.F., Lima, E.M. (2010). Building Information Modeling and Interoperability with Environmental Simulation Systems. In: Sobh, T. (eds) Innovations and Advances in Computer Sciences and Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3658-2_101
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