I am relatively new to setting up standards on AECOsim and have minimal knowledge of floor manager, but can't seem to find any info on this.
I'm working on a number of existing train stations, where existing floors are on a sloped plane. On previous projects floor manager hasn't been used for this reason, and instead the user has defined floors using the ACS function, however as the team is quite large and based in several different locations, it would be good if we could try to implement the use of floor manager to maintain consistency.
So the question is, can SS6 Floor Manager produce floors on a sloped plane?
Hi Grace,
I looked in to the floor manager and flormaster.dgnlig and as far as I can tell, the only option in floor manager is the Rotation (Zero degrees by default) but this only works based on the plan view rotation by rotating the coordinates of the floor selected but doesn't have the option to rotate or turn the floor at a designated angle or degree to create a sloped floor.
Floor Manager creates a series of reference planes that set the active Auxiliary Coordinate System (ACS) once selected. They are always horizontal.
Assuming that the sloping floors involved are flat planes it would be possible to create an ACS oriented to each plane, but these cannot be managed through Floor Manager.
Please take a look at the Create ACS (By Face and (By Points) tools.
These tools can be used on-the-fly for local modelling operations or if a consistent set is required for sharing you could create a set of appropriately labelled ACSs in a shared file available to your team. The ACSs could then be imported (via the ACS dialog > Import ACS button) when required into design models. There is a time-saving key-in: 'acs import', that goes straight to the import dialog, skipping the ACS dialog.
If this is a helpful workflow it would probably be possible to automate the import of particular ACS using VBA.
Alternatively the ACSs could be added to project seed files.
Note that the ACSs are not connected to any elements placed using them, they are simply reference planes used at placement.
Regards
Marc
Answer Verified By: Grace Newey
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