The ARCHIBUS Extensions for AutoCAD and Revit can also publish direct to KML or KMZ format from the ARCHIBUS Enterprise Graphics Publishing command. You can theme the output by room category or department and group layers by nominal elevation (for space planning studies on campuses) or building (for studies on single buildings or high-rises).
KML and KMZ formats are international standards for geographic annotation and visualization defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium and have many uses; however, one of the most significant is for integrating your ARCHIBUS information with Google GIS products and Web-based services. For instance, you can visualize your ARCHIBUS facilities in 3D within Google Earth.
As another example, you can drag-and-drop the KML format directly into the Google My Maps product.
From within My Maps, you can share your map in a manner similar to how you share documents in Google Docs, and you can share the link via Google Plus, Facebook, or Twitter.
This feature is added as an unsupported tool, since the KML features will be expanding quickly in upcoming releases of ARCHIBUS. These KML publishing features will be supported in future releases; however the commands that produce them will change as they add features.
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