Forum Post: RE: SS5 - Snaps are basically utterly useless when modelling
FWIW, we have since found an issue specifically with the Intersection snap mode, filed as Defect 99487, but that seems to be the only one AFAIK. It is currently scheduled for the upcoming Ss6 release.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Stairs
I was not able to reproduce this in Ss5. I placed three different stair types using the GB, NM and USM datasets, but in every case when the master units were set to cm the values in both the Stair...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Empty Forms and Building Dataset Elements -what are they?
There ought to be a Testimonials page!
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Place Form To Shape
I also see a difference between BA and ABD, so I can only assume we've made improvements in this area of the code (I don't recall this, but there it is!). As far as click sequence goes, the only...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Place Form To Shape
But if you placed your forms a long time ago or over time you may have a random order or not know the order
View ArticleWiki Page: Place Steel Section With Twisted Angle
Applies To Product(s): AECOsim Building Designer Version(s): 08.11.09.747 Environment: N\A Area: Structural Design Subarea: N\A Original Author: Gerard Torres, Bentley Technical Support Group...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Data Group Annotation
thank you again Jeff , this is too much "confusing " if there is a video or best procedure to produce shop drawing , it will be big favor form your sides .
View ArticleForum Post: AecoSim Plumbing: Any planned improvements?
We are a multi-disciplinary team using AecoSim for arch, MEP and structures. Our public health engineer tells me that the plumbing model does not have any links to analytical model. He has to...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Relative Bottom Of Duct/Pipe - ABD 593
JK: our experience was that rule only provides the bottom of the duct relative to placement, not from the Finished Floor. We had to do some monkeying around with the Floor Manager to use that rule...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Relative Bottom Of Duct/Pipe - ABD 593
Yes that was the reason for my original post. I wanted to be able to have the BOD or BOP show as relative to the finished floor not 0,0,0. Were you able to get it to work? John
View ArticleForum Post: Place Linear Forms, Auto Connect 'on'
On Place Linear Form with Auto Connect 'on', separately placed non-touching forms extend and connect to others nearby in a wide variety of different ways, depending on the Forms' orientation and...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Relative Bottom Of Duct/Pipe - ABD 593
We did, we had to use a different Floor Manager file for HVAC than the Architects were using. Not ideal because we want one, but we ended up doing it that way. We set the Floor Manager file to have...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Relative Bottom Of Duct/Pipe - ABD 593
Just as shawn mentioned we created a new floor manager for HVAC to get actual BOD. The BOD was from referenced from the next lowest floor manager floor created from our structural/Architectural group....
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Annotations / units + label
Sorry, Steve - should have been "MU label" of course. Subunits don't make any sense in a metric system.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: NM Dataset folder structure changed with SS5?
There are a couple of issues with this release, see this thread. communities.bentley.com/.../97123.aspx
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Empty Forms and Building Dataset Elements -what are they?
I'm glad that helped, Tom. Wording is a tricky thing for sure, but I'm slowly taking the feedback I've seen in these threads and figuring how to use that info in future Wiki articles. So... thanks...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Bentley Architecture (dgn) to Navisworks (nwd)
I have tried installing the NWC exporter in AECOsim. The navis installer didn't have AECOsim listed, so I installed for microstation iV8 and made sure I installed in the folder mentioned above, which...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Why can't AECOsim work on large files?? - ABD SS5
Steve, It never goes above 2800 MB (42%) memory and 18% CPU. Is there a way to force it to use more memory and CPU? Here is what I get in the message center. Here are my machine stats: John K.
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