Chapter 4: Model Building; Creating Site-Specific Information Workflow; Format Building Menu - Extreme Networks Summit WMScanner User Manual

4 Model Building
Summit WMScanner allows you to format your drawings using the Format Building menu. To create the
3D virtual model, you use the Building Wizard utility from within the Format Building menu. Building
Wizard provides powerful functionality for modeling a building quickly and easily. The process of
modeling a building includes specifying the location, height, and type of materials that make up the
building floor plan. Once the 3D virtual model is finished, you can export this formatted drawing to
WMS.The Building Floor Manager may be renamed as the Building Wizard in some versions.

Creating Site-Specific Information Workflow

The following workflow diagram provides an overview of the primary steps for creating a site-specific
model.

Format Building Menu

Summit WMScanner provides a Format Building menu that leads you through the process of creating
your 3D virtual environment model. Format Building supports two basic starting points for generating
the three-dimensional drawing of a facility.
Starting with a previously drawn CAD floor plan. File formats include .dwg, .dxf, 3DS, ACIS Solid,
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Drawing Exchange Binary, and others.
Starting with a blueprint and converted into a scanned image format such as .bmp, .jpg, .tif, .wmf,
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.tga, .gif, etc.
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