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Designing large-scale facilities is inherently multidisciplinary, requiring close collaboration between industrial and civil design domains to ensure structural integrity and system integration. In civil engineering, best practices increasingly rely on Building Information Modeling (BIM), a digital methodology that enables the creation and management of structured, information-rich 3D models throughout the lifecycle of a project. Effective design processes depend on coordinated, bidirectional data exchange among disciplines. While transferring data from BIM to CAD environments is generally straightforward, the reverse process remains challenging due to fundamental differences in design logic and data structure.
This work proposes a framework to adapt industrial CAD design logic to BIM-oriented workflows. The methodology is structured in four key steps: identification of fundamental nodes, removal of non-essential small components, geometry simplification, and integration of product data. To evaluate the approach, a web-based application was developed to support and partially automate the proposed workflow.