Autodesk FM

[#1]

the firm i work for has been asked to do some facility management. what the
client is wanting (they have autocad) is to be able to click on a
workstation on the floor plan and it give them the information of that
employee. i have no earthly idea how that is going to work. is there some
autodesk software that is designed for this type of work? any help????

[#2]

Jace -

Take a look at the discussion group for Facilities Management and
ask for help there.

FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
http://discussion.autodesk.com/WebX?14@@.f12d9f4 or
news://discussion.autodesk.com/autodesk.fm

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Jace Paddleford wrote:
>
> the firm i work for has been asked to do some facility management. (snip)

[#3]

You could make each workstation a block with preset and hidden atributes.
Then when you type attedit it brings up all the info you gave it.
Then if someone moves or quits you can change the info easily.


"Jace Paddleford" wrote in message
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> the firm i work for has been asked to do some facility management. what
the
> client is wanting (they have autocad) is to be able to click on a
> workstation on the floor plan and it give them the information of that
> employee. i have no earthly idea how that is going to work. is there some
> autodesk software that is designed for this type of work? any help????
>
>

[#4]

thanks Anne, i hadnt noticed that group.

Dann - ive thought of that, but we are talking around 600 employees at this
location, and i have a sneaking suspicion that this will grow to the entire
company 2000+ employees. it could / would work, but was wondering what
options there are out there.

thanks for the suggestion
"Dann Brower" wrote in message
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> You could make each workstation a block with preset and hidden atributes.
> Then when you type attedit it brings up all the info you gave it.
> Then if someone moves or quits you can change the info easily.
>
>
> "Jace Paddleford" wrote in message
> news:71AE9F63108EBA740959014D968F733E@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > the firm i work for has been asked to do some facility management. what
> the
> > client is wanting (they have autocad) is to be able to click on a
> > workstation on the floor plan and it give them the information of that
> > employee. i have no earthly idea how that is going to work. is there
some
> > autodesk software that is designed for this type of work? any help????
> >
> >
>
>

[#5]

This probably won't help you, but with ADT you can do exactly what you what you want.

[#6]

you could look into arcview as well



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[#7]

If you don't have ADT and you don't have Arcview and you are limited to what you have, is this not, then, an appropriate place to use AutoCAD's database connectivity?.

Beyond that I would be over my head as to the specific how-tos. A2K shipped with db_sample.dwg and db_sample.mdb (Microsoft Access database) that did/does do this sort of application. A starting point at any rate

JimL
=:-}

[#8]

an update - just meet w/ the client. they are wanting to somehow link a
drawing to their sql database. this way they can locate employees by floor
/ department, either by the database or floor plan. i think the floor plan
would be a dwf format rather than a dwg.

im not sure what im getting myself into.................


"Jace Paddleford" wrote in message
news:71AE9F63108EBA740959014D968F733E@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> the firm i work for has been asked to do some facility management. what
the
> client is wanting (they have autocad) is to be able to click on a
> workstation on the floor plan and it give them the information of that
> employee. i have no earthly idea how that is going to work. is there some
> autodesk software that is designed for this type of work? any help????
>
>

[#9]

If they have AutoCAD, you may not need much else. You could create a block of the workstation and assign attributes (text information) to each with whatever information (fields) you want to be displayed. AutoCAD 2002 also allows an easy way of extracting the information to a spreadsheet. Very simple and straight-forward. Hope this helps.

Dave LaComb, AIA

[#10]

Jace hi,

The program that should be able to do what you need is Autodesk Map.

Map can help you connect different AutoCAD objects to more Data (In or out
of the file).
It can also help query data based on different criteria: Names, Location and
much more.
Map 5 or 6 can enable you to migrate all your drawing data (When too large)
to Oracle Spatial Database.

You should look into it.

Arad


"Jace Paddleford" wrote in message
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> an update - just meet w/ the client. they are wanting to somehow link a
> drawing to their sql database. this way they can locate employees by
floor
> / department, either by the database or floor plan. i think the floor
plan
> would be a dwf format rather than a dwg.
>
> im not sure what im getting myself into.................
>
>
> "Jace Paddleford" wrote in message
> news:71AE9F63108EBA740959014D968F733E@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > the firm i work for has been asked to do some facility management. what
> the
> > client is wanting (they have autocad) is to be able to click on a
> > workstation on the floor plan and it give them the information of that
> > employee. i have no earthly idea how that is going to work. is there
some
> > autodesk software that is designed for this type of work? any help????
> >
> >
>
>