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2021-10-29 03:13 AM
Curious about what system people use for their Building Material IDs.
I can't seem to find a national standard (NZ).
I have been using a pretty basic numbering system (BM01, BM02, BM03 etc).
This has been alright a but a bit of a nuisance when ordering numerically.
Also just seeing BM27 by itself gives no clue as to what it is.
I've thought about acronyms or a variation on that, eg CONC for Concrete.
I feel like it might just end up being unique to this company but interested to hear what people are doing.
2021-10-29 10:01 AM
@Josh Verran The UK tends to use the guidance that comes from "The NBS" for layer and other standards. The current "favoured" naming system UNICLASS 2015 covers products. I don't like it and don't use it in my documentation, but it should give you an idea of the scale of the problem. I may be wrong, but I would imagine most users not bound by government standards, including myself, just establish a common sense memorable naming system to suit their regularly used materials.
If you don't already have it, open the classification manager and click on the [ I ] in the lower left which gives you a link to the classifications download site. If you look at the CAWS classification headings, they may give you some easier to use pointers.
2021-10-30 06:35 AM
Back in 2013 (I think, when BMs were introduced I used (for the want of something logical) the NATspec codes as the Building Material IDs for the Australian Template like this...
Its recently changed.
2021-10-30 02:03 PM
I use the old CAWS UK system across all attributes so that I only have to remember one standard. However, I am not sharing the information so it’s just for my own convenience. For instance, a ceiling in my system might have the following attributes
I rename all the standard ,materials and surfaces attributes in my own template