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.
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.
You can do that really easily with thematic mapping Rob, however if you have TFpart applied materials it fails to override the materials.
I think the broader point is correct though, we've got at these attributes we're adding to elements (the I in BIM) and yet we can do anything with them other than spit them out. Effectively we have information rich models, but can't get at the information usefully.
ps. Don't like the idea of a QS getting their hands on colour by cost :)