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AECOsim
Building Designer
2012
Bentley Systems, Incorporated
www.Bentley.com/AECOsim
Quick Start Guide
Chapter A08
Space
Planning
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Table of Contents
Space Planning ..............................................................................................................3
Sketches .................................................................................................................... 3
SpacePlanner .............................................................................................................. 4
Create Space .............................................................................................................. 7
Working with Space Data ............................................................................................. 8
DataGroup Explorer .................................................................................................. 8
Searching Data ......................................................................................................... 9
Modifying Data ....................................................................................................... 10
Presentation Drawings ............................................................................................... 10
Rendered Spaces .................................................................................................... 11
Thematic Maps ....................................................................................................... 12
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SPACE PLANNING
One of the most important activities of a design project is to gather and track information
about spaces and their attributes, such as room finishes, paint, wallpaper, carpet, ceiling
material, the number of occupants, and the types of equipment or other building assets. While
that information is valuable, equally important is tracking room names, departments, floors, ID
numbers, and square footage. The other AECOsim Building Designer disciplines take
advantage of the Space information for Mechanical and Electrical calculations.
AECOsim Building Designer supports two types of space planning workflows. The SpacePlanner
feature is a set of Space Planning tools that support the schematic architectural workflow
involving lists of programmed space requirements being imported and then used for initial
design layout studies, prior to any walls being placed in the model. The Create Space tool that
was used in A-Chapter 2 – Making the Model Intelligent allows the creation of spaces
after walls have been initially laid out and placed in the model by flooding the area bounded by
the walls. In both cases the walls can be associated with the spaces so that modifications to
the walls or other bounding objects will update the space areas. For this reason it is beneficial
to model Spaces in the same model as the interior walls, although not required as the Space
associations can be maintained through reference files.
SKETCHES
The initial layout of a space plan will often be completed
by hand in the form of sketches.
Digital sketches (a sketch that was created on paper and
digitized by photographing or scanning) are easily
attached to model files using the Raster Manager.
Attaching digital images is similar to attaching references
(other model file types, such as DGN, DWG and others),
except that a digital image is attached to the DGN.
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SPACEPLANNER
In order to access the SpacePlanner tools
they must be loaded from the Building
Designer pull down on the top menu bar.
Once loaded, there will be a Space Planner task on the
Building Designer Task Bar. The tools for Creating
Spaces, Creating Labels, Searching the data, Creating
Thematic Maps, and Configuring the Schema for the
Spaces are available on this menu.
The Create Space Using Space Planning Dialog
is used to access the Space Planning dialog for importing
and placing spaces in the model.
In the Space Planning dialog the Import Spaces icon
will start up the Import Wizard for importing a list of
room names or spaces from a delimited text, CSV file, or
an Excel file.
Typically when the Space Planning dialog box is opened
for the first time the Programmed Spaces list is
empty. The Import Wizard is the start point for
Bentley SpacePlanner's space planning functionality.
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Once the Import Wizard is started up, simply browse to the delimited text file, CSV file or
the Excel file and the data will be imported and listed in the wizard. Checking the First row
contains field names option will allow column headers in Excel to be used as attribute fields
in SpacePlanner.
On the Next tab use the Best Match option to match the column headers to similar attribute
fields for Space datagroup properties. If matches are not found the attributes can manually be
matched using the Properties pull-down next to each Attribute.
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Once the wizard is finished the spaces and
all their attributes will be listed in the
Space Planning dialog ready for placement.
Use the Start Placing icon to select a
Space and place it in the design file. As
spaces are placed they will be crossed off
the list ensuring that each space will only
be placed once in the design file.
Prior to placement, set the family to “Space” and select the appropriate part for the space
being placed.
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The lock icon can be used to lock the programmed area to insure that the shape placed meets
the programmed area. If either the Length or the Width is modified in the dialog prior to
placement the other dimension will be adjusted to maintain the programmed area. Use the
Attachment point to determine the origin of the shape.
Once all the Spaces have been placed from the list the shapes of the spaces can be modified
using basic modification tools such as Move, Rotate, Modify, Insert Vertex, and Delete
Vertex. Alternatively, the space can be selected and the handles on the space can be
modified. As the space shape is modified the Actual Area will be updated and tracked against
the static Programmed Area.
CREATE SPACE
As illustrated in AECOsimBD-A02-Making the Mass Model Intelligent, the Create Space tool
can also be used to add spaces to the model after walls or other bounding objects have already
been placed in the model.
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The Create Space tool is found on the Architectural design Task bar.
There are three methods for creating Spaces:
The Draw Space method is to trace out an
outline shape for a Space. Select the Draw Space
icon then select the shape type; either the Draw
Rectangle, Multi-Point Shape, Circle, Ellipse or
None. The “None” option will place a tag, but it
does not have a square footage value, such as a
Loading Dock or Courtyard.
The Convert Shape to Space converts a 2D
closed shape to a Space. Select the icon and then
select the shape to be converted.
The Flood Area to Create Space method is
a powerful method for creating Spaces because it
can have an associative behavior after placement,
if desired. Any fully enclosed area can be flooded
to create a shape. This area can either be defined
by 2D geometry, 3D solids, or Walls and
Compound wall assemblies. If Associate Flood
Spaces is selected during Space creation, then the
Space Flood will update when the boundaries
change.
Prior to creating a space, select a Space Type. Space Types are defined in the Datagroup
Catalog Editor and are associated with a defined part in the Space family. Therefore, setting
the Space Type will also set the correct Family and Part information. Depending on their
definition the Space Type may also fill in default Values for the space attributes. Attribute
values for spaces include not only areas, and program information, but also room finish
information and can be defined prior to placement or by modification of the space after
placement, later in the design process.
WORKING WITH SPACE DATA
Once spaces have been placed in the model from any of the methods outlined above they
become a valuable container of information that can be extracted in a number of ways.
DataGroup Explorer
The data that has been placed on the spaces is tracked in the Datagroup System and is
covered in AECOsimBD-A02-Making the Mass Model Intelligent. For information on using the
space data to create Room Finish Schedules see AECOsimBD-A16-Schedules and Reports.
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Searching Data
The data can also be queried using the Search dialog.
The Search dialog is opened from the Open Search Dialog icon on the Space Planner
task Bar.
Define the catalog type that is being searched, “Space”, for example. Next, define the criteria
by selecting an attribute of that catalog Type, “Area | Actual”, for example, an operator and a
value. Next use the Add to Search button to add that criteria to the search.
To further define the search, additional criteria can be defined and added to the Search using
either an AND or OR operator. Search Criteria can be saved for reuse later by selecting the
Save icon and naming the criteria. Once the Search criteria is set, selecting the Search
button will open the Search Results dialog.
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Use the Highlight icon to create a selection set of all the selected items in the Search Results
list.
Modifying Data
Once a selection set is made, attributes on all
the spaces in the selection set can be modified
at one time.
Use the Modify Properties tool to open
the Edit Space dialog and edit the attributes
of the selected spaces. Put a Check mark in
the Apply/Edit column next to each value to
be modified and change the value. A data
point in the view will accept the changes.
PRESENTATION DRAWINGS
Another important use of the Spaces in the model is the ability to produce colored presentation
drawings with labels and legends generated from the data on the spaces.
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Rendered Spaces
In AECOsimBD-A02-Making the Mass Model Intelligent DataGroup Annotations were used to
add labels to the spaces in the Sheet model. However, it is more efficient to use Architectural
Drawing Rules to automatically add the Space labels to the Drawing Model.
The color of rendered spaces will be determined by the family and part of the Space. Open the
Dataset Explorer from the top menu bar Building Designer > Family & Parts > Single
Parts… Find the “Space” family. Select the Cut Patterns tab. The Cut Fill Toggle must be
turned on. The Cut Fill Color will determine the Space color.
In a floor plan Drawing Model use the Set
Reference Presentation to open the View
Attributes dialog for the referenced Building
Dynamic View.
Check the Filled Spaces box in order to have
color fill on the spaces in the drawing.
In order to turn on the Space labels check the
Space Rule Name. By default, the Rule will use
the DataGroup annotation cell set by the
Annotate Tool Settings.
The Space Labels, as well as other
annotations placed with the Drawing Rules, can
be moved and rotated once they are created.
Individual annotations can also be hidden by
right-clicking on the annotation and selecting
Hide Annotation.
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Thematic Maps
The Create Thematic Maps tool found on the Space Planner task bar is used to create
colored overlays of the spaces, based not on the family and part symbology, but on criteria
defined by the user.
Click the New button. New Map appears in the maps list.
Select an object class to search for. And click Add Search. The
selected object class appears in the searches list.
Use the Property, Operator and Value drop lists to define the search criteria. Define a color
to display results.
Use the options in the Legend builder pop up dialog box to create legend expressions.
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Repeat steps to add more search criteria.
Click Place Legend to place a legend on the drawing
Click Save map to DGN to save the map in the DGN file.
or
Click Save to save the map to an external file.
Templates rather than Color can be used to define the display of the search results.
Templates control various other properties such as Level, and Priority, in order to force the
color fill below the line work.
MOVIE: Space Planning
This movie shows:
1. Importing a Program
2. Placing Spaces
3. Creating a Thematic Map