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

Ian Lapper
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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

 

  • in reply to rklaschka

    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

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    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.

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