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
Hi Rafael,
I think Dominic has covered the PCS and Function Components aspect.
Or did you mean Compound Cells..? If so, I'll add these Wikis to the list:
https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/36954/what-is-a-compound-cell
https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/28346/creating-a-new-compound-cell
https://communities.bentley.com/other/old_site_member_blogs/peer_blogs/b/marc_thomass_blog/posts/aecosim-building-designer-compound-cells-and-metadata
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...
thank you steve!!
Is there an step by step tutorial or learn resource that I could use?
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 I believe Marc suggested using Compound Cells for your doors and windows instead, since PC Studio will be superseded by MicroStation's Functional Components in a future version.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 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