Hello Good ABD Community,
So here I'm with a question that I wanted to know for years the answer,
How on earth do you make your own parametric BIM components to load on a Dataset?
Do you make them like compounds cells? Are you doomed to use Parametric Cell Studio? You can only import them from RFA files? Or maybe, and this would the greatest thing ever, you can make them in Generative Components and load them to your dataset?
If anyone can find it on their heart to help me understand this the BIM Gods will be pleased.
Regards
Rafael
.....is someone there?....Anyone?
For somebody to give you some help can you tell us which version of ABD you are using (eg 10.xx.yy.zz)
It would also be helpful if you could give us an example of what you want to achieve… do you want to create a door or a window or a curtain wall assembly or staircase or a piece of furniture or landscape element or a series of shapes as volumes of rooms or buildings for modelling
Each of those could be done but the methodology of which ABD buttons to press in which order (which I think is what you are looking for) will be different.
Ian
currently using OBD 10.10.01.151
Hello Ian,
Thank you for your repply,
At first I want to make doors and windows, then I'll like to make a curtain wall assembly and staircases.
Hi Rafael,
What you can do now:
What is coming:
I'd suggest using Compound Cells for your doors and windows, the notes in AECOsim Building Designer - Compound Cells and Metadata may be helpful regarding those, used the right way they can quite powerful. Also AECOsim Building Designer - Compound Cells - Non Parametric Doors.
ABD CE U4 includes the first iteration of our new curtain wall tool which I hope will meet some of you needs. This tool will be developed further to add wider capabilities.
ABD CE U4 includes some enhancements to our stair tools which make them more capable in their role of providing everyday staircases, including a lot of improvements and flexibility to the handrail tools.
GC would be a good solution for complex stairs, GC models can be referenced into ABD.
Marc
Answer Verified By: Rafael Bombardiere Carvajal
Thank you Marc,
This is of great help to understand more about this!!!
I think Bentley needs to do something about PCS, because there's not much information about how to use that tool. If you have any please let me know.
Best Regards
Additional information about using PC Studio is available here:
https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/5864/pc-studio-faq
However... I believe Marc suggested using Compound Cells for your doors and windows instead, since PC Studio will be superseded by MicroStation's Functional Components in a future version. While Compound Cells are not parametric, the learning curve and time required to create new doors and windows in that format is much less than when using PC Studio. So it may be worthwhile as an interim solution until Functional Components are fully baked.
thank you steve!!
Is there an step by step tutorial or learn resource that I could use?
PCS: See Mary Chib's PCS series on the LEARN Server. And also this pdf by Doug Fitzpatrick (very good prep for the long road ahead when using PCS). Some recent vids in Spanish.
CC: See old vid on LEARN
Functional Components: a preview of sorts of what is in the pipeline.
Mstn, at platform level, seems to be taking on a lot of functions (See Mstn CE U11 Tech Preview items) that were previously done at vertical / Triforma level:
I hope that TF Joins will be next on the platform team's to do list.
Also, please check out TP tools like Associative Extractions. This is a modeling tool that was initially developed by a vertical (ProStructures) that has been migrated downwards to platform level... similar to the ABD/TF tools above.
Test-driving the TP tools is essential to to making sure the tools do what we the users want. Unfortunately, more and more necessary given the 'complexity' of the software these days...