All
I think this has been asked before but I cannot find the link.
I have a client (Balfour Beatty) that wants BA and/or AECOsim to produce a Area Schedule, that identifies the room Name/Number plus what is contained/linked in the room i.e. the space, any doors, windows, sanitary, caseworks etc.
Thus, if we have a space which was created using the Flood tool. Within this space there are associated BIM data i.e. Doors, Windows etc. What they want to be able to produce a report that tells them this information.
I know it might be considered hard to do so as doors open into one room and not another. But if we think logically and any door opens into the space is classed as linked to that room and the report identifies that the room contains the door, window casework etc.
If this is not possible, is there a development plan to get this into the product.
Thanks
Ian Lapper
Sounds like you are looking for CodeBook functionality.
Robert
Codebook will be ideal. Have you had any sucess putting CB into BA/AECOsim
Ian
We last used CodeBook in anger with BA. I haven't tried it out on AECOsim yet, but it is probably worth contacting them so see how far along the latest ingration is.
I have had some dealings with the codebook development team and my understanding was that they had no plans to develop for BA.
What you need to bear in mind is that codebook starts with the briefing schedule/database so the objects are already identified as in the children of a room.
However I think Ian, and the countless others that have requested this feature over at least the last 5 years would support this functionality being a priority to introduce. At present one can go some way to making this sort of functionailty work externally by looking at the cartesian position of objects, but this is far from fool proof and could certainly not be used in production information.
We do have floor and room as attributes of each object, which I think is lip service to ifc export requirement. The idea that we should be filling these in manually in a BIM environment seems more than a little perverse to me.
SpacePlanner does some very simple room scheduling using the Reports tool.
For example you can use the settings in the image to report on Furniture inside of Spaces.
A bit of cleaning up in Excel is required, but objects can be presented with the spaces they sit inside of.
A bit related to this topic I was wondering if this could also be done with wall-, floor and ceiling finishing-materials. I saw that there is a possibility to define a space's north, east, south and west finishing materials, but it would be more interesting to have the material (fysical and rendered) attached to the surrounding walls/ceilings/floors of a space. So in that way you could extract a schedule of all the finishing materials and their surfaces by room/space... probably wishfullthinking...
This is really useful Stuart. I think it would be very valuable to have a tutorial on integrated use of space planner with AECOSIM BBD. Do you think there is a chance of this.
Anybody looking to find and use Spaceplanner - its in the Building Designer menu - select Load Spaceplanner.
RK: I have had some dealings with the codebook development team and my understanding was that they had no plans to develop for BA.
BA, strictly meaning only Bentley Architecture? or AECOsim Bentley Building Designer Architecture (=ss3, v81109xxx) i.e. non of Bentleys products.
regards / Thomas Voghera