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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