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Hi. Jim from Michigan here. Regarding the axial map inside buildings issue. Has there been any work on a standard format for room polygons, room connectors and all the building data needed to support the studies of motion and shape? For years I have been using DXF elements like closed PLINES for space polygons. The building database becomes very difficult to create if spaces must be non-intersecting closed polygons. I made the mistake of convincing my Syntax2D friends to follow this requirement. When making the polygons (say, in AutoCAD) mistakes can be made. The Syntax2D group took one on the chin for the polygon requirement. I forgot to leave them with the code to semi-automatically generate spaces from linear (LINE, ARC, SPLINE, and open PLINE) elements. It was time to retire and I never made my case for a fix for Syntax2D's biggest problem. Is anyone working on this? Is there a building database group within this group that is concerned with file formats or similar issues? Buildings are not urban areas or cities. The measurements and simulations are different. I think axial analysis is not appropriate for building analysis. But what do I know! I have retired and have become a virtuoso tenor ukulele player. Every so often I get the urge to ask a few questions. I have written a paper about my approach using DXF elements to export/ import building data. I found it interesting to write (both code and paper). Hello to John and Jean and all you other SSers. Jim Turner Strumming for food Ann Arbor On Oct 30, 2011, at 8:25 PM, Penn, Alan wrote: > Andrea, > > Depthmap has a tool for automatically generating axial maps from the > boundary map (the building plan). It works in many cases, but on > occasion makes some errors. In general my advice to students is to > do it by hand as this is a good exercise in observation in its own > right - you see things in the plan that you did not notice before. > > Alan > > On 30 Oct 2011, at 21:38, Andrea Vieira wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I'm working on my o PHD research I’ m creating the axial maps of 3 >> buildings to make an comparative space syntax analysis were I’ll >> be using mindwalk. >> >> I would like to know if there are any software for drawing the >> axial maps from the convex spaces drawing of a building. >> >> Thanks for help, >> >> Andrea Pera Vieira >> >