Quick Start Guide - Hiran Ferreira

1 AECOsim Building Designer 2012 Bentley Systems, Incorporated Quick Start Guide Chapter 2 Making the Mass Model Intelligent AECOSIM BUILDING DESIGNER CHAPTER 2 - MAKING THE MASS MODEL INTELLIGENT Page 2 of 16 2012 Bentley Systems, Incorporated Table of Contents Making the Mass Model Intelligent ..3 The ACS .. 3 The Floor Manager .. 3 Icon Locks (Ctrl+Shift+I) .. 6 Creating floors with spaces .. 6 The DataGroup System .. 6 Creating Presentation Drawings .. 8 Display Styles .. 8 Clip Volumes .. 10 Dynamic Building Views .. 12 HyperModels .. 13 The Project Explorer .. 13 Creating Sections .. 13 Adding DataGroupAnnotations.

2 15 AECOSIM BUILDING DESIGNER CHAPTER 2 - MAKING THE MASS MODEL INTELLIGENT Page 3 of 16 2012 Bentley Systems, Incorporated MAKING THE MASS MODEL INTELLIGENT In order to Start adding floors to the mass model it is necessary to establish the horizontal planes where the floors exist. To accomplish this, we will use ACS or the Auxiliary Coordinate System. THE ACS The ACS (Auxiliary Coordinate System) makes it very easy for designers to navigate in 3D space and know exactly where they are at all times. This is accomplished through the use of ACS Planes (which are created, saved and referenced throughout the modeling process) in conjunction with working planes.

3 A working plane can be described as a plane that floats around, depending upon what needs to be accomplished. AccuDraw is one such plane (the visual reference for that plane being the AccuDraw compass) as it can float up, down, and along any axis. By using the ASC Plane Lock and ASC Plane Snap Lock, designers can draft or model locked on to the active ACS Plane with AccuDraw. There are several methods to create ACS Planes by either using the Auxiliary Coordinates dialog tool, or the Floor Manager. The Auxiliary Coordinates dialog can create Rectangular, Cylindrical, and Spherical types Auxiliary Coordinate Systems.

4 The Floor Manager is a tool that creates Rectangular, stacked, ACS Planes that act as Building Floors and Floor Reference Planes. The Auxiliary Coordinate Dialog and ACS is native to MicroStation. Please refer to MicroStation help for more information about how to define, Set, and manipulate Auxiliary Coordinate Systems (ACS). THE FLOOR MANAGER The Floor Manager tool is used to create Rectangular, stacked, ACS Planes that look and behave like a system of floors in a building. The Floor Manager is used to: Create buildings Create and manage floor definitions Create and manage floor and sub-floor reference planes Create and manage floor groups and floor information for projects.

5 The Floor Manager stores all this project information in a Master Floor DGN file. This file is named and is located in the project dataset in the support/dataset/dgnlib folder. The Floor Manager opens when Building Designer > Floor Manager is chosen from the top menu bar. AECOSIM BUILDING DESIGNER CHAPTER 2 - MAKING THE MASS MODEL INTELLIGENT Page 4 of 16 2012 Bentley Systems, Incorporated Often projects have several buildings, or wings of buildings which have different floor heights. The Floor Manager accommodates this with the Create Building Tool. Once a new building is created and selected, each building can each have its own floors and floor reference planes.

6 Buildings, Floors and Floor Reference Planes are created using the following tools: The Create New Building icon creates a top level container for storing floor and reference plane definitions. With focus in the text field, the name for the new building is entered to replace the default name. Building names are sorted alphabetically in the tree view. The Create New Floor icon creates a new floor entry at the top of the Floor Manager list box when selected. The new floor list box entry is an actively selected text field which displays the default name Floor 1. With focus in the text field, the name for the new floor is entered to replace the default name.

7 A valid elevation must also be entered before focus is returned to the designer. The Create New Floor Reference Plane icon creates a new reference plane associated with the active and currently selected floor. The new reference plane list box entry is an actively selected text field which displays the default name Reference Plane 1. With focus in the text field, the name for the new reference plane is entered to replace the default name. A valid elevation must also be entered before focus is returned to the designer. Reference planes are relative to the floor with which they are associated and so are their elevations.

8 The Create Typical Floors icon opens the Create Typical Floor Group dialog box where floor groups are created. AECOSIM BUILDING DESIGNER CHAPTER 2 - MAKING THE MASS MODEL INTELLIGENT Page 5 of 16 2012 Bentley Systems, Incorporated The Delete Floors, Typical Floor, and Reference Planes icon deletes the selected floor, floor reference plane, or typical floor. Reference planes established within deleted floors are also deleted. Typical floors associated with deleted master typical floors are also deleted during this type of operation. Generally when typical floors are deleted, elevations for typical floors above the deleted floor are lowered to maintain a constant elevation between the remaining typical floors.

9 The designer is also given the option to maintain previous elevation(s) for the floors above the deleted floor. Once the buildings, floors and floor reference planes are created with Floor Manager, the Floor Selector tool is used to activate the buildings, specific floors, and reference planes. All design files (3D models) in the project will automatically have this capability with the Floor Selector tool. The Floor Selector can be opened by choosing Building Designer > Floor Selector from the top menu bar. Once opened, this dialog can be docked on the interface for easy access while working in the model. Selecting any floor or reference plane will change the active ACS to that floor s z-elevation so that any elements placed in the model will be placed at that floor elevation.

10 In addition, the following tools can be used to select the active building and align the view with the selected floor. Set Active Building Align View with ACS AECOSIM BUILDING DESIGNER CHAPTER 2 - MAKING THE MASS MODEL INTELLIGENT Page 6 of 16 2012 Bentley Systems, Incorporated Icon Locks (Ctrl+Shift+I) Icon Locks determine whether data points and snap points will be projected onto the ACS plane (locked mode) or remain at the true placement elevation (unlocked mode). Whenever a placement tool is chosen the locks will automatically be locked on. CREATING FLOORS WITH SPACES Spaces in AECOsim Building Designer can be used to track everything from areas to room numbers to finishes, and they can also be associated with their bounding elements so that the area information updates whenever those bounding elements are modified.