The Shared Object Model is built to support the collaboration process where you have multiple stakeholders within engineering, construction, and asset owners, who want to collaborate closely around a shared central model using multiple applications in parallel to create, edit and maintain information, including exchanging information on object level across users, companies, and land boundaries.

The creation of a Shared Object Model involves merging numerous individual models alongside other relevant source data. This aggregation results in a comprehensive, single model characterized by a unified data structure and a standardized ontology based on IFC. Despite this central consolidation of information, each contributing individual model retains a degree of independence. This is achieved through the process and task management concepts, allowing for straightforward updates and efficient management of specific model components for various analytical and coordination purposes.

The Trimble Connect Object Manager is required to populate and manage the data in the Shared Object Model. It is required to use the a desktop client that manages Shared Object Model worksets with all its content (tasks, objects. and network). Changes from the Shared Object Model side are merged into local worksets (receive), while changes in worksets are shared to server side. Only changes are shared. All create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations are done in the context of worksets in Object Manager.

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