floor manager

Question

I am unclear on what the floor manager is supposed to do 
 I am told with Revit when MEP services are modelled they can be automatically annotated and dimensioned 
 Does the floor manager enable automatic labelling of duct/pipe levels and dimensions off grids? 
 If that is its purpose is there a guide or example avaliable 
 
 i have been working on a number of large projects using the Bentley mechanical software and they were all manually dimensioned and had manually edited level cells

StefanC · Answer

For now, you can define floor levels, and use it to automatically generate the grid systems for each floor level, and indicate the floor levels on the elevation grid. You can lock to draw at the selected floor height, so you are sure you work on the right level.

Marc Thomas · Answer

Hi David, just to get back to your original question... 
When you place mechanical components with a floor set active, the Base Offset value set in the place component tool settings will be relative to that floor. In common with other ABD tools the Base Offset is only used at placement and is not stored. 
Regarding auto-annotation the mechanical Drawing Rules can be modified/created to show a range of values: Top/Centre/Bottom of duct and Invert levels at start and stop of run for pipework. These are all measured from model zero, not from each floor as we do not store the initial placement Base Offset.

Marc Thomas · Answer

ABD CONNECT will not add associations between floors and walls. Wall heights can be changed in DataGroup Explorer for multiple elements rather than by fence stretch.