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
Koert, Every software has its pros and cons. We are doing huge projects using Revit and it handles it much better then AECOsim does. Trying to generate a section through a multiple story building (MEP, Structural, Architectural included), in AECOsim, it takes 30 min and doing the same section in Revit takes 20 sec (from exported IFC). The problem is that many people don't really know how Revit works, the main reason given is that it can't handle large project...we are doing hospitals, multi story buildings, big enough to me. Try doing the following in AECOsim; 1. create colour schedule (in plan) which is also shown in the sections (i.e. room is red in plan and in section) 2. change your roof footprint (without deleting the roof or creating a new shape) 3. copy a particular level to other levels (i.e. copy floor level 1 to 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 15, 18) 4. change properties for 500 doors in 1 go (i.e. add fire rating, add ironmongery, etc) 5. automatically create sheets (1100 sheets) and place all views (plans, sections, elevations and schedules) of your entire project, onto the sheets (took me about 20 min) 6. move a structural column/wall and all columns/walls on different levels align themselves automatically Just to name a few. I can make the list very very long so please don't give me "real projects aren't quite like the demo though". I can't post my projects here as demo can I? Bentley has always compared its current product version with an outdated version because they don't really look at what other vendors actually can do. But you know, I don't really care what Bentley does or does not as I don't use their cumbersome, pain in the back, software that much. I was here trying to help and give suggestions but not going to waste my time any more...