Quick Start

Five Minutes to BIM

What is the ONUMA|System?

The ONUMA|System combines the benefits of BIM, geospatial tools, social media, data management, project management and so much more, all in a simple, web-based application that anyone can use. Prior BIM modeling experience is not necessary to start using the ONUMA|System.

New ONUMA|System users can try some of the exercises below to become familiar with the interface and features -- the quickest way to learn how the ONUMA|System.

Create Project and Scheme

1. Click on an Available Studio

Note: Your Studio list will not look like this, because different users have different Studios.
Clicking on the Studio opens the project panel.

Projects can be a single building or an entire campus of buildings.
Schemes have many uses such as creating planning variations or organizing existing buildings.
Each user has their own Studio(s). Studios contain Projects and Schemes.

2. Click New Project

This opens a panel to fill in Project information.

3. Fill in Project Information

Click New scheme > Empty scheme
Name the Project

4. Next: the Project List with the newly added project Appears

Scroll down to the Project.
The Project can include Multiple Schemes.
Click New scheme > Empty scheme

A scheme is like a site plan that can hold one or many buildings.

5. Provide Name and Description of Scheme

Using the box above the map, search for an address anywhere in the world.
Draw a polygon on the map to indicate your Site. This can be adjusted or changed later.
In the map view there is a Hand tool for panning, and Polygon and Rectangle for adding a New Building Footprint

Add Buildings and Spaces

Draw an outline of a site or import accurate coordinates.
Place a building.
This is your first BIM in the ONUMA|System!

6. Add an Empty Building

Open Right Panel by clicking on the Views+Data button.
Confirm you are in Edit mode.
Click Add Objects to open up the Add Buildings tab.
Click on the empty Building icon to add a Building to the site.
Sites can have multiple Buildings.
Choose Shape: Rectangle, L-shape, or C-shape.
The right-side panel is opened by clicking on Add Objects

7. Click and drag a Building to Edit

Use the circular Grips to edit a Building's shape.
Hover over any Building edge which also edits the Building's shape.
The map view at the site level is located geo-spatially with coordinates.
The building has a unique location.

8. To View Floors -- Enter the Building

Click the Building.
Click the red door and arrow to go “inside” a Building.

9. Add a Space at the Floor Level

Adjust Space geometry like how you adjusted the Building geometry.
In Edit mode, drag the corners or edges.
The grey background is the Floor Slab and the blocks are Spaces.

10. Add Floor and Include the Spaces

From the Navigation panel (on the left side), select a floor of the Building.
Select Add Floor.
Select Include Spaces to duplicate the spaces and components in the Space.
Select where to place the new floor.
Name the new floor.
Click Ok.
Repeat to add more floors.

11. Export from ONUMA|System to Google Earth

Click: Pull-down on the upper right and select Export.
Select: GIS, BIM, and spreadsheet formats.
Select: Building KMZ to Export to Google Earth as a 3D massing model.
Export as KMZ and import the KMZ to Google Earth to view a 3D massing model.

12. Export Sloping Site to Google Earth

In cases where the building in the ONUMA System is on a sloping site, the export to Google Earth results in a "sloping" building because the building is "clamped to the ground".
In those cases, the Elevation of the Ground Floor of the building has to be set to the absolute altitude at the site.

Measure the elevation of the site by hovering over a place on the site in Google Earth and reading the spot elevation from the bottom of the Google Earth window.
Enter this elevation into the "Elevation" tab of the building popup window in the ONUMA System.

When exporting the building from ONUMA System as KMZ and importing the KMZ to Google Earth, the model now sits on the site correctly.

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