What's New Highlights for Bentley Facilities Space Planner CONNECT Edition, Update 4.1 (v10.04.01.10) Supports MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 17.2 (v10.17.02.61) +  OpenBuildings Designer Update 10.1 (v10.10.01.151) Supports ProjectWise Design…

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What's New Highlights for Bentley Facilities Space Planner CONNECT Edition, Update 4 (v10.04.00.35) Supports MicroStation CONNECT Edition Update 17.1 (v10.17.01.62) +  OpenBuildings Designer Update 10 (v10.10.00.199)  Supports ProjectWise Design…

What is the difference between Catalog and Symbology? Catalogs and symbology are two different things in BFP. We can create a catalog and assign this catalog to a class. Catalog can have any number of prefilled attributes. We can create a symbology…

Product(s): Bentley Facilities Space Planner Version(s): CONNECT Edition Area: General Background We are using various software applications from Bentley Systems including Facilities Space Planer. What is the ECCN ( Export…

Product(s): Bentley Facilities Space Planner Environment: Windows 10 Area: Installation Problem After installing Projectwise v10.00.03.49 with Bentley Facilities Space Planner V8i v08.11.11.23 or CONNECT Edition v10.00.00.45…

Product(s): Bentley Facilities Space Planner Version(s): CONNECT Edition Area: General Subarea: Sequence for installation of Applications: Install Office and Log in to Office Install PW admin and Explorer …

Product(s): Bentley Facilities Version(s): CONNECT Edition Area: General The Facilities Space Planner product team is pleased to announce the availability of Bentley Facilities Space Planner CONNECT Edition, Update 3 (v10.03…

Product(s): Bentley Facilities Space Planner Version(s): CONNECT Edition Environment: Windows 10 Area: Shapes / Spaces Subarea: N\A Problem Description After modifying Areas an Update Areas dialog opens and…

Assets might have several different types, which are using different symbols. Like Office Furniture asset class has many different furniture types and symbols for each. In this case a catalog is helping not only to create information templates for different…

Create new Class In below instruction we will create new Asset class using standard Add Child Class... option, which will allow to build new class from scratch. In Class editor open datasource and in User Classes under Asset class section right…

Product(s): Bentley Facilities Space Planner Version(s): CONNECT Edition Area: Space Problem I've tried to delete a space but for some reason the command will not complete. Solution It's possible that the space record…

Product(s): Bentley Facilities Space Planner Version(s): CONNECT Edition Environment: N\A Area: General Subarea: ProjectWise, Microstation, OpenBuildings, Facilities Compatibility ProjectWise, Microstation & OpenBuildings…

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Pick list is very useful item for any class or other data. With correct pick-lists it is much faster to enter all required information and this information is consistent. Such pick-lists allows to create searches and build specific reports, what is very…

New Classes can be created using function, which allows to create it like selected existing class. This way it will create clone of existing class with all required settings and configurations. It will create a new database table with all same columns…

In the Navigate pane of the Browse window Bentley Facilities Manager , expand a hierarchy until the object you want is visible. Do one of the following: To copy an object, while pressing the < Ctrl > key, drag and drop the selected object over the parent…

Once a label is displayed, you can graphically reposition it about the area or asset to which it belongs. To move a label From the Planner menu, choose Tools > Move Assets and Labels. The Move Assets and Labels dialog box opens. Using either MicroStation…

When you want labels to display every time a certain asset or area is also being displayed, turn on Use as Autodisplay in the Labeling dialog box. To be able to turn on Use as Autodisplay, you must first save the label definition you are configuring.…

You can configure the view to display labels for certain classes for areas and assets. Any displayable attribute of the area or asset can be used as the area's or asset's label. To display labels for label an area or an asset Use the Element Selection…

This section discusses labelling areas and assets, and also repositioning labels when they are displayed in the DGN.

In Bentley Facilities Planner you can delete instances of assets and containers graphically and non-graphically. To delete assets and/or containers, graphically Using either the Element Selection tool or the Place Fence tool, select an asset, multiple…

In Bentley Facilities Planner you can delete areas. Note: When you delete areas, as long as no linking rules are broken, any areas within them are also deleted. If deleting an area(s) causes a linking rule to be broken, a warning message appears…

When you create an area, the area and perimeter of that area are stored in the database. If you subsequently amend that area graphically, its area and perimeter may change in the design file. The Update Areas tool updates the database record to reflect…

From the Planner menu, choose Area > Create. The Create Area wizard opens. From the list box, select Deduction Area and click Next. The Modify Instance Deduction Area screen opens. Click Next. The Attach/Detach Shapes screen opens. In the design…