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Object Jargon Buster

Object Jargon Buster
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Definition:

OBJECT:

• A term used to describe any item.
• Usually a building element (in Architect’s offices), that is created in a CAD computer programme where historically the lines added to a CAD drawing were just that, a load of lines with no meaning to the computer (AutoCAD is an example of this type of programme),
• now more and more programmes understand the lines that are grouped together to be an object
• e.g. a WC pan,
• and the lines that go together to describe its shape won’t be split up, they stay together,
• an object can be selected using the mouse pointer and moved across the CAD to a new location all the lines come with it.
• AutoCAD AEC understands objects, as do many others

(ASWS BRM ’97)

OBJECT: (In the context of BIM)

• Not in Uniclass2.
• A thing that can be modelled – could be physical or not (e.g. a process, a person, a document).
• In Uniclass2 we have a physical ‘object hierarchy’, from Region down to Product.
• BIM software may be object-based, using object-oriented databases.
• However, NBS Create uses SQL, which is a relational database
• see: http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/12/24/sql-server-object-oriented-database-management-systems/

(NBS JG ’13)

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© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy aka BrianSpecMan
23rd November 2013 – 13th October 2015

Object Jargon Buster
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© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy aka BrianSpecMan
23rd November 2013  – 5th November 2018

Object Jargon Buster
See also:

NGS JARGON BUSTER

• 2D
• 3D
• Accessories
• BIM
• BIM Definitions
• Component
• Coved Skirting
• Element
• Elemental
• Elemental Assemblies
• ISO 12006-2
• NBS
• NBS Create
• Object (this page)
• Product
• Recursive
• Region
• Sub-elements
• System
• Uniclass2

© GBE NGS ASWS BrianMurphy aka BrianSpecMan
23rd November 2013 – 5th November 2018