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
Marc
Ustn since 1988SS4 - i7-3.45Ghz-16 Gb-250/1Tb/1Tb-Win8.1-64bEric D. MilbergerArchitect + Master Planner + BIMSenior Master Planner NASA - Marshall Space Flight CenterThe Milberger Architectural Group, llc
Yes they do in Revit.
HTH
Unknown said:Bentley will never be able to introduce the quick changing of the floor heights that you can see in the video above. It is very funny that Bentley always compares AECOsim with Revit, as you can see AECOsim can't compete with Revit. Doing simple basic things is a nightmare and time consuming process
Yea... this has been requested by users many times before. One example. Another.
But don't put all the blame on the developers at Bentley. Even if some of their support guys seem to try to discourage it. The real culprits are the users, who did NOT want Revit-style parametrics. Go back and look at some of the posts from 6-7 years ago. Users were positively terrified of 'fly-by-wire' parametrics and propagation.
These were the users (and CAD admins) who generally only knew Bentley products and mostly CAD draftsmen working on large infrastructure projects where the design did not have to 'flex' very much and were handed down from engineers to be CAD'd up. At that point, the 'dark side' was ADT and not Revit.
There was also this silly survey, seemingly confirming that the non-parametric Bentley ways were preferred over Revit. What a marketing coup / abdication of technical leadership and disaster.
The whole question of how and what type of smart relationships are needed has been discussed plenty. I presume that this kind of thing is discussed by Bentley internally as well. It's not as if there is a shortage of ideas of how or what parametrics can be implemented.
The problem seems to be the glacial pace that Bentley seems to approach things. ABD's track record on parametrics seems to be strewn with half-baked partial solutions that end up being work-a-round millstones rather than the sharp tools you would enjoy using. I think that the only way out is if platforms builds in the equivalent of Triforma's Joins into its Parametric Solids and the Parametric Content Modeler gets re-booted as the successor to PCS and a general parametric API. Maybe later, GC would be integrated into Parametric Solids like FeatureScript is part of Onshape. Bentley has been talking about AEC Assembly Modeling for at least a decade. It needs to pick up the pace.
Maybe now that Bentley has done a deal with CABRTech, there will be some more money in the kitty. Maybe PKPM-CAD will morph into ABD for the China market, and we get some money to completely re-write ABD as a Revit-killer :-)
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