Okay, I asked some ADT friends of mine. While they don't use FMDesktop, they
say that Tags are what I need to use to link information to a Space.
So, I'll be learning how to use those, I guess. After looking at a quick
couple of references, I'm guessing there is all sorts of information you can
put in your tag.
So, the question might become... what all information do I want to put in my
tag, then import to FMD. Or, do I just want to put in the space number, and
link that to a database containing the rest of the information I might need?
This is going to be fun! ~grin~
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Melanie Perry
***not all who wander are lost***
http://mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/
"melanie stone" wrote in message
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So, I'm asking my boss if we can try at least a pilot project for FMDesktop
this year and he's sounding positive.
Now, to save myself some time, I remembered... Bob Fahlin mentioning
something about automatic 'space'(room boundary) creation in ADT 2007.
So, I have access to ABS 2007 (bundled with Revit Systems 1), and decided to
try it out on my floor plans which are only vanilla ACAD entities.
I kept crashing at first, but, a friend suggested installing the Service
Pack (that comes with Revit Systems 1 Service pack, not the one just for
ADT?).
Anyway, I did that and now my spaces are created! woohoo!
BUT, I know nothing about ADT and next to nothing about FMD/Facility Link.
I'm going to be assigning space/room numbers to these areas.
Does anyone have any suggestions about how I should do that?
I have a lisp routine that will auto-number the spaces with the needed
prefixes and suffixes. So, should I do that and turn them from the regular
text into an attributed block?
Or does ADT have a tool that would be better for this (easy creation, simple
updating, importing into FMD, etc)
Any advice is appreciated. Thank you!
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Melanie Perry
***not all who wander are lost***
http://mistressofthedorkness.blogspot.com/