AECOsim 590
Please excuse naive Q in this elevated MS Admin forum.
As single user, am still struggling 1yr in to master AECOsim 3D as fluently and simply as i use Acad 2D. Constantly baffled by things that won't work and behaviours that arise from who knows where, and still can't understand most advice, incl on this forum, which assumes I know things already. I need stupidly basic instructions, where to find the button I need to click, and why - what's happening 'under the hood'. If I can just get it to work, then I will learn fast. There is a terrible absence of advice and guidance on the brilliant Keith Little http://adagebooks.com level.
So I want to start with a completely empty Workspace, if such can exist.
Following http://adagebooks.com/eBooks/samples/Complete-UserInterface-Sample.pdf (which covers up to MS J), in File Open (MS Manager in the book) KL says to first create a my own Interface>New>enter 'tom', close MS, in \Workspaces\Interfaces\AECOsim I find \tom\ has appeared along with \default\. KL "highly recommends" to delete file \tom\ustn.r01 (what was it?) because "starting with a clean slate is the way to go". To KL in MS J, that would leave \tom\ empty but in AECOsim there also remains file \tom\tom.dgnlib (why was both \ustn.r01 and \tom.dgnlib there - what do each do? And why is \default\ empty - no r01 and no dgnlib?).
What is this dgnlib for exactly - what "style information for levels, text, dimensions, multi-lines (and much more)" is already infesting my brand new 'tom' Interface? How can I tell what's in this dgnlib? Double clicking it opens it (as a dgn apparently) into AECOsim, but none the wiser. Is it possible to have a new Interface that is completely free of such pre-set "style info ... (and much more)"?
KL moves on to create my own User>New>enter 'tom' and in Components select No Project. I have more Qs about that, but will gratefully await comprehensible answers to my various Qs above, before asking more.
Or is the only way to have a Dataset in AECOsim (other than default Dataset_US), to choose User>Building Designer and Project>BuildingTemplate_NM_Light or whatever?
Can I not configure User>New>tom to use Dataset_NM? because trying for initial simplification for learning purposes.
Do I have to re-name all 128 occurences of Dataset_US to Dataset_NM?
In ConfigExplorer, comparing User>tom Project>No Project with User>tom Project>tom, there seem to be only housekeeping differences, to do with the different Project name - is that correct, or are there more differences, that I'd notice in use?
Looking for a minimum-formatted workspace, but needing a metric dataset rather than default Dataset-US, I better leave installed Project>No Project alone, instead reconfigure Project>New>tom. The above shots suggest that TF_DATASETNAME is where i configure Project>tom to use Dataset_NM instead of default Dataset_US. How do I do that - simply edit Value and Expansion in Line 1132 above?
Trying that - R click on Line 1132>Open in Editor>change TF_DATASETNAME to Dataset_NM>Save - 'Access is denied'. So what to do?
Still looking to set out with minimum formatting, to start with, add stuff in as and when I understand why. Therefore Project>No Project, along with User>tom and Interface>tom, as below.
I now understand that with No Project, Dataset_US installs by default, because with AECOsim there always has to be a Dataset. I obviously need to at least be metric,
So I could resort to User>Building Designer, Project>BuildingTemplate_GB, NM-F, NM-L or USM,
Or, if still looking for minimum formatting I could stick with User>tom and Project>No Project - if it's possible to set one of the metric Datasets as the default?
Am I doing right, to hold out for this 'minimum formatting' line, for initial education?
Is it possible to switch an extg dgn file to a different Dataset 'on the fly?' Or indeed to a different User and/or Project?
Hi Jon,
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