When Bentley Facilities Planner is running, the screen looks just like a typical MicroStation session except for the addition of the Planner and Import menus on the MicroStation menu bar. All the commands in Bentley Facilities Planner are available…

In the Browse window Bentley Facilities Manager, navigate to, select, and right-click a room, then choose Room Book from the pop-up menu. The Room Book dialog box opens. In the Room Book dialog box, click Create. The Select Asset Class dialog box opens…

In the Navigate pane of Bentley Facilities Manager, right-click and choose Create Asset. The Create Asset wizard opens, displaying the Select Instance Class screen. From the list box, select an instance class and click Next. The Modify Instance screen…

An asset is a general class of an object which can be created in the FM Model, and if required, placed in the design file. Desks,chairs, PCs are all examples of common asset classes. The specific type of asset you can create depends on the items available…

Depending on the way your system has been configured, certain areas may be allowed to overlap other areas. Generally, it is undesirable to allow areas of the same class to overlap, however there are situations where you may wish to allow this. Area…

Area calculations are performed automatically and allow for the construction area occupied by the building's structure, but you can define additional areas which are deducted from the useful areas in your FM model. There are two ways of deducting area;…

Bentley Facilities Planner creates area links automatically. You need only add the highest-level area(probably a location) to the location hierarchy, since all the links below this level will be created automatically by Bentley Facilities Planner. When…

The area class is the only type of information which is stored permanently in the design file. To create an area, you first define the graphical representation of the area, using a MicroStation closed shape, and then create the area using one of the Create…

Some organizations may wish to classify each area as a particular type of space to assist in the collection of statistics about space use. The demonstration database includes a space classification hierarchy based on DIN 277, and you can classify each…

In Bentley Facilities Planner, areas are defined on top of existing closed shapes in the design file. This section discusses how to create new and work with existing areas.

In the Navigate pane of the Browse window, expand a hierarchy until the object you want is visible. Right-click on the object and from the menu that opens, choose Delete. The selected object is deleted from the list. Any objects contained in the selected…

In Bentley Facilities Planner, you can create logical items in the database that have no graphical representation in the design file, such as a company, division, or department. You can create an entire hierarchy of these items (like the organizational…

From the Planner Menu Ribbon, in Tools group select Commands list. The Commands Class List dialog box opens. On the Class List tab, expand Organization, then expand Company. The commands available for the Company class display. Under the Company class…

The Objects window can be used as an objects scratch pad. For example, you can compile a list of objects from a number of sources and then carry out various operations on any number of these objects at the same time. You add objects to the Objects window…

Assets are not stored in DGNs, but are stored in the database (along with location and attribution information) and then temporarily drawn in the DGNs on request. You can have assets display automatically whenever a DGN is opened, or you can manually…

When you have configured the Browse window to display the hierarchies and links you require, you can use it to find objects and move around the FM Model. Selecting any object displayed in the window and then choosing Locate from the pop-up menu finds…

The hierarchical structures used in Bentley Facilities Planner form the foundation on which the structure of the FM Model is based. In building a computer model of an organization's corporate structure, or the sites and buildings it occupies, it is important…

Bentley Facilities Planner is an application for managing facilities in all types of organizations. It provides tools that enable a facilities manager to keep track of people, documents, furniture, equipment, and so on, in any/all sites leased or owned…

Bentley Facilities Manager is an application for managing facilities in all types of organizations. It provides tools that enable a facilities manager to keep track of people, documents, furniture, equipment, and so on, in any/all sites leased or owned…

Facilities Space Planner Bentley Facilities Planner allows quick and easy access to information on the location and state of space and assets. It makes this information available on the fly, visualized in a drawing using 2D or 3D displays, labels or…

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