Hi there,
I am new to the bentley products, learning Aecosim from the learnserver from past 3 months.
i am still not sure about the usage of "user" "project" "interface".
coming 9 years of experience in Revit, my little peanut brain finds it hard to digest the simplicity of Bentley product.
please help.
In most situations user and interface do not need to change, both of these are removed from our CONNECT Edition products.
Each project that you work on requires a project to be created to store the design data and project specific resources separately from other projects. In AECOsim one of the critical project specific resources is the Floor Manager DGNLIB, BB_FloorMaster.dgnlib.
Please take a look at ABD SS6 - QuickConfig which provides an example of configuring AECOsim and creating projects.
Regards
Marc
Hi Marc,
Thanks for the reply, when i run the follow your instruction to create project based on quickconfig, i get this error when i run Aecosim designer, but i can see the physical folder at two drives but unable to sink it with the ABD.
Appreciate if you help.
Answer Verified By: Venkatesh Vinod
Hello Venkatesh,
I know that feel, I had 5 years experience with Revit when I switched to ABD, is kind of hard to understand it at the begginingm because the logic is very different, but if you look at Bentley Design tools as a whole it makes a lot of sense.
When you work with Bentley tools it is very important to understand that they don't store data in the RAM memory (there are some exceptions of course), they store everything in the hard drive, so you need to specify beforehand "what" and "where" you're working with, and because of it's FEDERATED workflow, all the different data involved in a project is located in a separated file (you can multiple design models within the same file). This means that ABD needs to organize your directories in order to provide access to multiple users to the same project.
I recommend that you try the CONNECT Edition of ABD, mostly because the interface is more intuitive and user friendly.
Hi Rafael,
Thanks for your reply, i agree ABD connect edition interface is of ribbon mode, which makes it user friendly.
i am understanding the federated modelling approach.....bentley learn server is quiet promising, but if anyone can post ABD deployment plan for the organisation would be a great idea, like things to consider when we are doing engineering job in ABD.