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OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon Wiki Floor Management - OpenBuildings Designer
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        • Floor Manager is empty and not able to create the grid
        • "Failed to check out BB_Floormaster.dgnlib" error
        • Floor Management - Changes made in Floor Manager are not being saved
        • Floor Management - Changing the name of BB_FloorMaster.dgnlib
        • Floor Management - Command Not Defined For This Application
        • Floor Management - Creating Floors on a Sloped Plane
        • Floor Management - How to set a default active floor for a file
        • Floor Management - Modifying DataGroup Properties Displayed in the UI
        • Floor Management - Set Grid and Floor Manager for a Workset
        • Floor Management - Shows values that do not match the active working units
        • Floor Management - Unable to select a floor in Floor Selector
        • Floor Management - Use of Relative Elevation and floor to floor heights.
        • Floor Management - V8i BB_Floormaster.dgnlib Becomes Corrupt After Adding It To CONNECT Edition
        • Floor Management - Where is the best place to set up floors for my project?
        • Additional IFC project properties in Floor Manager
        • Empty Floor Selector with old Floormaster.dgnlib file even after Schema Upgrade
        • Units mismatch between Dgn file and Dgnlib
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    Floor Management - OpenBuildings Designer

    OpenBuildings Designer uses Floors as a means of organizing, designing, and reporting building information. By this method, designated floors define the physical location for portions of the building relative to reference and site elevations. So the floor serves as a type of container for building elements and components in the model that include walls, doors, windows, fixtures, furnishings, equipment, structural members, mechanical components (HVAC and plumbing), and electrical equipment at a given elevation. In this capacity, floors can be used by architects, civil engineers, interior designers, landscape architects, and mechanical and structural engineers for many disciplines.

    The Auxiliary Coordinate System (ACS) is an existing utility that can be used to represent floors in a building, or reference planes at a site. However, the ACS is limited in what it can do to manage an extensive, multi-tiered floor and sub-floor system within a building project. While the ACS system continues to be active within the application, the building floor management utility is available for use by building design professionals who generally think in terms of floors and not auxiliary coordinate systems. Reference planes for floor elevations, and sub-floors within a floor (ceilings, raised platforms, and top of structure for example), are created with the floor management system to manage elements and components located within floor elevations.

    Note: The floor management system is available across all workset DGN files, meaning an ACS defined in one DGN can be shared by other DGNs.
    You can define a set of floors and associated reference planes and sub-planes on a project-by-project basis using the floor management system. Sets of floor planes (and associated reference planes) can then be shared by the team for all designs created within a specific project. The floor management system provides these two tools, the Floor Manager and the Floor Selector.

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    • Marc Thomas Created by Bentley Colleague Marc Thomas
    • When: Mon, Feb 15 2021 12:26 PM
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