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Article: Solibri Model Checker. (Trial Runs).
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- Cadence
- Article date:
- December 1, 2002
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Borrowing the analogy of spell-checking from the word-processing domain, the Finnish company Solibri Inc. has developed a tool for the design spell-checking of a building model in the AEC domain. The intent of the Solibri Model Checker (SMC) is to find out potential problems, conflicts, or design-code violations in the model. This task is enormously more complex than a word spell-checker--for a start, the model itself has to incorporate a certain level of intelligence and building semantics, so that the model checker can interpret it, analyze it, and then point out any errors in it. So far, the only such building model that exists, which is not proprietary to any one ...