SAM (SAM-BIM) errors

3 recurring problems engineers report in SAM (SAM-BIM), ranked by impact.

#199 by errors trackedPLMMCAD

Recurring SAM (SAM-BIM) errors, by impact

  1. 1Panels trimmed to nothing still acted as snap targets first. On one project a reveal block pulled a slab off the facade mid-plane, moved the first-floor datum from 3.475 to 3.450 m, and lost two rooms.PLM · Agent failure · 1 report74
  2. 2with no Rhino document open (Rhino.Inside, Compute, tests), the unit scale came back NaN, so every converter multiplied its tolerance by it and extruded faces got meshed and solids came back open with wrong areas. Companion fix notes rebuilt models lost real elements (79 wall piers and slab patches rejected as not panel-like on one house model).MCAD · Agent failure · 2 reports71
  3. 3Turning a Rhino model into an analytical building model collapsed 201 window solids into 45 apertures against 100 real openings, because windows sharing a jamb were merged into one.MCAD · Agent failure · 1 report66

How it fails

  1. Agent failure3

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