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Equipping rooms used for medical purposes, like e.g., intensive care units,
is an expensive and time-consuming task. In order to avoid extensive subsequent
adjustments due to inappropriate layout visualization or geometric conditions
difficult to identify in 2D plans, it is of utmost importance to provide an optimal
planning environment to future users such as physicians and nurses. In this paper
we present the concept of a fully automatized pipeline, which is designed to
visualize computer aided design (CAD) data using virtual reality (VR). The
immersive VR experience results in improvement of efficiency in the decision-
making process during the planning phase due to better spatial imagination. The
pipeline was successfully tested with CAD data from existing Intensive Care Units.
The results indicate that the pipeline can be a valuable tool in the field of spatial
planning in healthcare, due to simple usage and fast conversion of CAD data. The
next step will be the development of a plugin for CAD tools to allow for interactions
with the CAD models in Virtual Reality, which is not yet possible without manual
intervention