Resumen de The documentation of cultural heritage with Bim opensource software

Sotiris Logothetis, Efstratios Stylianidis

• The Building Information Modelling (BIM) software enables the users to communicate and design, understandappearance, performance and cost in the spatial and urban design process. Another important use of the BIM technologyis the documentation and 3D reconstruction of cultural heritage monuments. The appropriate BIM software equips theusers with tools to easily capture and analyse concepts and maintain the coordination of design data throughdocumentation and 3D modelling. Many developments come up in the BIM field and software industry for design,construction-reconstruction, restoration and management of the cultural heritage 3D models, using BIM tools; mainlycommercial as well as free or open source. Nevertheless, recently the growing popularity of open source has altered thelandscape in software industry, as they attract many users.This paper presents a review of some recent research on the topic. We review the recent developments focusing on theOSS that can be used at various stages of BIM process in the digital documentation of cultural heritage. The resultsshow that there is more preference in the commercial software due to the fact that the OSS is not yet complete andcovers all stages of the BIM process. However, lately we have the Edificius in architectural BIM design and “BIM Vision”as Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) model viewer that try to attract as many users as possible. These tools are freeand they could well be used for the digital reconstruction of cultural heritage.