WHO WE ARE:
We are a Belgian architectural office, using AECOsim to do some 3D modeling. In Belgium, we don’t have a CAD standard, and it seems we won’t have one anytime soon.
WHAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR:
To build our own standard (so at least we have an office standard), we used the BB/SfB system as a backbone. We started transforming the given standard Datasets (GB/US/NM) to create the new Dataset BE. Note this process took a long time…
So we:
We now have a nice standard workflow based on the Dynamic Views to create drawings from our 3D model. Visually, the output is exactly what we expect, so we are happy with this.
But when it comes to quantities, we still rely on Quantify Tool (based on the Families+Components) to get our output. However, this seems to be the ‘oldschool’ way to do it, and it seems the Datagroup system is the way to go. So now we are facing this challenge (since our boss kinda made it our challenge :-).
WHAT IS OUR PROBLEM:
Starting from the Datagroup Catalog Editor and the Datagroup definitions, this seems a bit too overwhelming. There are over a hundred Catalog Types, each with so many Definitions attached to them, which makes it seem like one big chaos. I know you can delete and detach all you want, but there should be a decent way to start with this. But now it seems like a lot of work, and I’m not sure if it’s realistic to do this on our own. And even when these settings are all corrected, you still need to work on the output Schedules to get the info you want (otherwise it’s just some big data dump).
So in a nutshell: I have no idea if this is actually a good/realistic idea...
SO MY QUESTIONS:
Has anyone here created their own dataset from scratch? Or anyone a better look on these Datagroups?
I would like to know (you can use the number of the question as a reference in your reply, if you feel like answering them specific):
Windows 10 pro
OpenBuildings Designer Connect Edition Update 10.10.01.151
Regards
Marc