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.
Open question: wouldn't it be logical to have all the item sets from the federated models, available in the master/containermodel. Especially when using DVs, and generating drawings from the mastermodel?
Stuart - I am playing with this and can find I only can adjust the Color. It need for Demo dashed also.
Demo - Dashed Red wt 0
Existing - Blue wt=1 stule as drawn
New as drawn
Ustn since 1988SS4 - i7-3.45Ghz-16 Gb-250/1Tb/1Tb-Win8.1-64bEric D. MilbergerArchitect + Master Planner + BIMSenior Master Planner NASA - Marshall Space Flight CenterThe Milberger Architectural Group, llc
aha, now that is interesting! thanks for sharing. (wished that Bentley came up with this kind of tutorials...)
Stuart thanks as this is something I will use in the future.
Apparently my version of ABD does not have that feature.
I can open a copy of MS and it is there just as you have shown.
My home version is a little newer. I'll see if it has this feature.
The image is a little small but it looks like you've selected Items. You need Item Sets.
Item Sets you create will automatically create Named Groups, and those Named Groups can be referenced elsewhere and their Display Style altered via Presentation the Reference File Dialog box.