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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
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
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