We found this presentation online about AECOsim, which mentions (p19):
"unification across families: no longer an issue in BuildingDesigner"
(source: http://www.evolve-consultancy.com/article.php?incat_id=162&category_id=15)
how do you make this work? When chosing a unifier part I only see the ones within the same family to chose from...
I think what you're referring to is covered by the section "Concatenation of Parts and Families" in the Help file, and specifically this: "An additional benefit of Concatenation is that it enables parts, acting as unifier parts, to be stored in multiple XML files when they share the same family name."
I checked this but it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for (at least what I think). An example of what I would think the presentation is refering to is this:
FAMILY: '1' PART: 'A'
FAMILY: '2' PART: 'B'
FAMILY: '3' PART: 'C'
Part 'B' and 'C' both refering to part 'A' (which is for both in a different family) as their unifier part.
Windows 10 pro
OpenBuildings Designer Connect Edition Update 10.10.01.151
After two year did you solve this problem ?
Michael Arens could you make video for your solution
No, parts across families of different names is not yet supported. What Michael is referring to is the ability to have separate XML files with the same family name, located in different folders if needed, which does allow unifiers to be stored in a separate file - that was the main request in the past.
Thank you Steve for clarification
You're welcome!