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
In a 2d worlds this could be achieved using itemsets. (here you can serach by dg property and temporarily resymbolise items)
You might have to experiment by creating a Saved view from a drawing model when the itesets are active. There are complications from the clip volumes and display styles that might prevent you from trying this in a design model
Brenden Roche
Applications Engineer
Bentley Systems, Manchester UK
Hi Thomas,
I create a structural drawing using ABD and change the level of some of the beams to S-DEMO, for example. If I then use the Place Plan Callout tool to create a plan drawing, I turn off the S-DEMO level in that drawing file and/or the generated saved view but the demo beams are still displayed. It puts all of the beam elements on the "S-G2613-M-BeamsSteel-Fwd" level.
John K.
HI John,
have a look at the family and parts for the beams you have placed and look at the settings for foward and rear views. What you are describing is working as designed.
Yes I did find out that this is working as designed but I was just answering as to why I couldn't use levels anymore to distinguish between existing and demo in the same file.
John K
Thematic Mapping from Space Planner works, but as RobK says, you have to change your Display Settings to Wireframe (or anything but Smooth or Transparent) as the TFPart Material settings interfere with the resymbolization...but it does work quite nicely on walls et al.
Thanks,
Shawn
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Thematic mapping is nice, but what happens when you need to export the info to dwg or even dgn for those vanilla Mstn users?
At some point, we need to be able to get DV/BV to re-symbolise to different levels ala DEM.....
Mine was not intended as a long-term solution, merely a current workaround until the ability to scale and resymbolize with more specificity is put into the product.