Floor Manager Settings for Dynamic Views/Drawing Extractions Created Using Floor Selector [TN]


  
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 Product(s):Bentley Architecture
 Version(s): V8i (SELECTseries 1)
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 Original Author:Bentley Technical Support Group
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overview

The following steps are used to set the Floor Manager Properties to assist in the creation of Dynamic Views and Drawing Extractions.

Steps for using Floor Manager to create Dynamic View and Drawing Extraction Definitions

 1)     From the Project Management pull-down menu, select Floor Manager (7th menu item).

Project Managerment_Floor Manager

 2)     Select the 1st icon on the Floor Manager dialog to create a Building and use the 3rd icon to create a Floor.

Floor Manager

 3)     Alternately, choose an existing floor in order to proceed to step #4.

 4)     On the right side of the Floor Manager dialog, set the values for the Floor Properties...

 a)     Cut Plane Delta will set the cut elevation of your View / Extraction relative to the Global Origin.

 b)     Forward View Depth sets the distance the View / Extraction will look beyond the Cut Plane.

 c)     Reflected View Depth sets the distance the View / Extraction will look above the Cut Plane (opposite the Forward View).

 NOTE: If the Forward and/or Reflected View Depth properties are set to a value of 0:0, the resulting Dynamic View or Drawing Extraction definition will exclude those aspects.

Floor Manager_Floor Properties

 5)     Click Exit, which returns you to your original DGN file.   From Project Management pull-down menu, open the Floor Selector (6th menu item) and put a checkmark in the DEM (Drawing Extraction Manager) column next to the appropriate Floor.

Floor Selector_DEM

 6)     For Dynamic Views, this will automatically create a Saved View based on the Building and Floor names selected, which can then be applied to any view window, dragged into a sheet model from Project Explorer, or used to create a new Drawing and/or Sheet model referencing that Saved View.

Saved View

7)     For Drawing Extractions, this automatically creates a drawing definition, also based on the Building and Floor names selected, which can then be calculated to generate your output.

 Drawing Extraction Manager

See Also

Product TechNotes and FAQs

Building Product TechNotes And FAQs

External Links

Bentley Technical Support KnowledgeBase

Bentley LEARN Server

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