ISPRS-Archives The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ISPRS-Archives Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci. 2194-9034 Copernicus Publications Göttingen, Germany 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W3-439-2017 FROM OSS CAD TO BIM FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE DIGITAL REPRESENTATION Logothetis S. 1 Karachaliou E. 1 Stylianidis E. 1 Faculty of Engineering, School of Spatial Planning & Development Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, 54124, Greece 23 02 2017 XLII-2/W3 439 445 Copyright: © 2017 S. Logothetis et al. 2017 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this licence, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLII-2-W3/439/2017/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W3-439-2017.html The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLII-2-W3/439/2017/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W3-439-2017.pdf

The paper illustrates the use of open source Computer-aided design (CAD) environments in order to develop Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools able to manage 3D models in the field of cultural heritage. Nowadays, the development of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) has been rapidly growing and their use tends to be consolidated. Although BIM technology is widely known and used, there is a lack of integrated open source platforms able to support all stages of Historic Building Information Modelling (HBIM) processes. The present research aims to use a FOSS CAD environment in order to develop BIM plug-ins which will be able to import and edit digital representations of cultural heritage models derived by photogrammetric methods.