Renovation Filter - Existing? New? To Be Demolished??

[rob2218]

If I have an object whether it be a line, lable, text, zone name...whatever and it is required to be seen BOTH on the "New" and "Existing" Renovation filter....how do I accomplish this without having to create 2 objects which are the same, placed right in the same spot in plan, placed on the same layer....yet needs to be show in "New" and "Existing" (or "To Be Demolilshed") as well for that matter???

[Anonymous]

Anything created in "Existing" will be visable in all three renovation filters.

So if you create a wall and set its filter setting to existing it will be visable in all filters, you can then create doors, windows in that wall and set them to either "To be Demolished" if it currently existings but your getting rid of it, or "new Construction" if your adding it into the wall.

You should only use the Renovation filter if its an existing building. If your building a brand new building then make sure everything is set to the "new construction" filter and it will show up correctly.

If you have template layouts then just make sure these are set the the relevant renovation filter (survey - existing / Planning application - Proposed etc...)

Hope this helps

[Karl Ottenstein]

Paul wrote:
You should only use the Renovation filter if its an existing building. If your building a brand new building then make sure everything is set to the "new construction" filter and it will show up correctly.

I'm not sure I agree with that one, although a lot of people on threads here seem to want to do it and complain about 'existing' being the default.

IMHO, new construction should be done as 'existing' - so that the project file is ready for inevitable renovation in the future. This also gives an easy way to show clients a single design option - by modeling the option as a renovation.

The only person that the word "existing" bothers is the modeler looking at the palettes. Sure, it isn't true for a fresh project, but does it really matter?

Whatever works, though. 😉

Cheers,
Karl

[Anonymous]

It might be our filter settings but if you don't set your New bits as "New Construction" then it causes problems with things like the window schedule and how the various drawings are shown in plan/section/elevation.

Its quite easy in the future to change every to "existing" so it definately better to make sure the renovation filters are set correctly during development.

We mainly do renovations and extensions so the renovation filters are a fantastic step forwards.

[Anonymous]

Karl wrote:
This also gives an easy way to show clients a single design option - by modeling the option

I like it!

I'd like to see the option to have additional filters beyond Existing, Demolish, and New in AC 16.

Would be cool to have Existing, new, plus Design Options 1,2,3 etc. This would save us SOOOOOO much time when we're in SD.

Creating multiple files for different design ideas is a pain, and creating multiple layer sets often creates chaos in our models, especially where wall cleanups are concerned.

[Mats_Knutsson]

flamingjawa wrote:

Karl wrote:
This also gives an easy way to show clients a single design option - by modeling the option

I like it!

I'd like to see the option to have additional filters beyond Existing, Demolish, and New in AC 16.

Would be cool to have Existing, new, plus Design Options 1,2,3 etc. This would save us SOOOOOO much time when we're in SD.

Creating multiple files for different design ideas is a pain, and creating multiple layer sets often creates chaos in our models, especially where wall cleanups are concerned.

+1

[Stress Co_]

flamingjawa wrote:
Would be cool to have Existing, new, plus Design Options 1,2,3 etc. This would save us SOOOOOO much time when we're in SD.

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