AECOsim - Is it possible to report on a Space linked to a Room

Sounds like you are looking for CodeBook functionality.

Robert

Codebook will be ideal.  Have you had any sucess putting CB into BA/AECOsim

Ian

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.

Unknown said:

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

Hmmm...

Maybe it should be possible to use some GPU / hardware assisted rendering technques... like shadow maps etc to pick out the internal faces of the walls/ceilings/floors at speed.

I guess you could have a North, East, West, South, Up/Down directional lights, that would find the faces that would be tagged with the appropriate material.

Or, just use a projection shader...? Probably too expensive to have lights in every room.... so the materials would be 'baked' onto the faces.... like geometry maps?

Thomas,

No plans to develop for any Bentley product. My understanding is that the AutoCAD and the ADT implementations were very good. There is a Revit implementation but that has an incomplete set of the components and so no one uses it.

Rob

Okay, I have been through the process Stuart describes here. It works well for things that are within the space boundary, but it doesn't work for doors, because they don't sit within the space boundary.

Its worth noting that if you export to file you need to drag and drop the result to the sheets part of an empty Excel sheet to bring the results in.

Its a great start, but I can see some reallybig improvements that could be made to it:

1. Appreciating the parent child nature of building/space/thing is space
2. A better output schema, a proper heirarchical XML one so instead of just delivering a line per item, there were spaces with nested tags for the things in them.
3. Identification of doors and windows that relate to spaces.

All that said there are things we can do with this that make it useful in its current form.

Rob

Okay, I have been through the process Stuart describes here. It works well for things that are within the space boundary, but it doesn't work for doors, because they don't sit within the space boundary.

Its worth noting that if you export to file you need to drag and drop the result to the sheets part of an empty Excel sheet to bring the results in.

Its a great start, but I can see some reallybig improvements that could be made to it:

1. Appreciating the parent child nature of building/space/thing is space
2. A better output schema, a proper heirarchical XML one so instead of just delivering a line per item, there were spaces with nested tags for the things in them.
3. Identification of doors and windows that relate to spaces.

All that said there are things we can do with this that make it useful in its current form.

Rob

What about a trick of some kind?  A nested cell or a point, or something else that gets placed with a door or window.  something thta woudl reside in the interior of that space.  Something editable so that you'd be able to flip that elemtn into the room without duplicating all your objects.

What about it counting the door or window tag and have all the data about the door copy into the tag as it is placed.

Then as the designer you make sure tags are within the associated space (this give an added graphic representation of attachment also.