Understanding the Shared Object Model

The Shared Object Model is built to support the collaboration process where you have multiple stakeholders within engineering, construction, and asset owners, who want to collaborate closely around a shared central model using multiple applications in parallel to create, edit and maintain information, including exchanging information on object level across users, companies and land boundaries. 

The creation of a Shared Object Model involves merging numerous individual models alongside other relevant source data. This aggregation results in a comprehensive, single model characterized by a unified data structure and a standardized ontology based on IFC. Despite this central consolidation of information, each contributing individual model retains a degree of "independence." This is achieved through the process and task management concepts, allowing for straightforward updates and efficient management of specific model components for various analytical and coordination purposes

To populate and manage the data in the Shared Object Model it is required to use the Trimble Connect Object Manager - a desktop client that manages Shared Object Model worksets with all its content (tasks, objects and network). Changes from the Shared Object Model side are merged into local worksets (receive), while changes in worksets are shared to server side. Only changes are shared. All CRUD operations are done in the context of worksets in Object Manager. 

Chapter Contents

01    | Model Concept

02    | Activate the Shared Model

03    | Tasks

04    | Timeline

05    | Worksets

06    | Settings

07    | Shared Model 3D View Extension