Site terrain, georeferenced IFC, earthwork volumes, construction progress LiDAR, and as-built deliverables — all the spatial work AEC firms do between Civil 3D, Revit, and the field.
AEC project teams keep losing the spatial thread between survey, design, and construction. Coordinate-system mistakes alone burn weeks per project.
CRS mismatches between survey, design, and construction GIS
IFC files shipped without georeference
Earthwork volume recomputed manually each progress claim
Reality-capture point clouds not aligned to project grid
Thirteen workflows that target the AEC handoff seams — survey to design, design to field, field to as-built.
| Workflow | Name & what it automates | Time saved |
|---|---|---|
| #140 | Site Terrain DTM from LiDAR Bare-earth DTM at construction-grade resolution from project LiDAR | — |
| #142 | IFC Georeferencing Inject IfcMapConversion + project CRS into IFC4 files for BIM-to-GIS handoff | — |
| #23 | Cut/Fill Analysis Cut/fill volumes between design surface and progress survey | — |
| #24 | Earthwork Volume Aggregate earthwork volumes for progress claim or final pay quantity | — |
| #147 | Reality Capture Alignment ICP / target-based alignment of reality-capture scans to project grid | — |
| #149 | Site Boundary Topology Repair Sliver removal + topology cleanup across legal boundaries and easements | — |
| #03 | 3D GeoPDF Export Interactive 3D GeoPDF for client / municipal review packages | — |
| #52 | Mobile Geodatabase Bridge Bidirectional .geodatabase ↔ GeoPackage conversion for field crews | — |
| #68 | Batch Format Conversion Reproject + convert all design / survey deliverables to client-required formats | — |
| #287 | LiDAR QA/QC Suite USGS LBS density / void / classification check before deliverable hand-off | — |
Modeled on an AEC firm running 60 concurrent projects with a mix of site civil, transportation, and reality-capture work.
| Metric | Manual / current tooling | GeoDataConverter |
|---|---|---|
| CRS-rework labor per project | 8–16 hours | Automated check |
| IFC georeference rework | Frequent | Eliminated |
| Earthwork volume per progress claim | Half day | Minutes |
| Reality-capture alignment turnaround | 1–2 days | Same day |
Workflow #142 injects IfcMapConversion entities into IFC4 files so the model lands in the right place when a downstream GIS or asset-management system imports it. No more receiving a Revit export, opening it in QGIS, and finding the building floating off the coast of West Africa.
Send us one project's survey + design + reality-capture bundle. We'll audit the CRS / IFC / volume chain end-to-end and report what's drifting.