I have come to the conclusion that despite there being a phasing attribute in AECOSIM there is no scope to leverage this in the application other than as an output.
In the event that we have modelled an existing building it appears the only way to manage the removed and retained elements is to put them in sperate files. Does anyone else have a better way to do this?
Ironically I have tried using named groups to knock out existing to demolish but the space flood tool sees the walls that are in the existing to demolish named group, see image (the green area is a space flood). Annoying really... I know its been said before, but named groups would be great if they were properly integrated with AECOSIM.
I had understood that space floods were going to be improved to flood only on the plane identified, is there a timescale for this to happen - I thought it was meant to have been doen for AECOSIM.
Unknown said:Ironically I have tried using named groups to knock out existing to demolish
How are you doing this? Sounds interesting...
Simply put within the existing model you have element in an existing to be retained group and an existing to be demolished group. When you attach the file as a reference it is possible to attach a named group within a file. Sounds great until you realise that AECOSIM ignores the namedgroups.
R
Hmmm... may not be purely an AecoSim thing. I think the elements that are not in the Named Group are still 'discoverable' in Mstn.... in previous versions anyway.
Maybe you should try making CVE's to flood? Not sure if CVE's 'proxy geometry' will be linky enough to allow Spaces to be associative to the walls, when the CVE is reloaded, though..
I'm talking about dg space floods - these should be in the model surely?
Bottom line; there needs to be a way of phasing elements in ABD. For now we have to use at least 3 separate files, one for demolition, one for existing to remain and one for new construction. We typically use separate files for new and existing anyway. Because of the way ABD works you can't simply use different levels.
John K.
I would have thought this falls under a more general need for a "Thematic" tool that displays/resymbolises elements based on ANY given DataGroup attribute. eg. Colour walls by fire rating, or by construction type, or by phasing, or by rendering material, or by cost, etc.
John
why not for levels? separate Saved Views>DV/BV will do.
But it is much easier to do with DEM as there are no way of "bulk editing" BVs
regards / Thomas Voghera
Robert J
Fire rating etc can do with resymbolisation.
But demolished is different as it must NOT interact with other geometry.