Hello,
I’m trying to create a demolition and reconstruction phases directly into a Visualarq project.
I have encountered the following critical issues:
1_You must be able to turn off for e.g. door layer (or wall layer and so on) without continuing to have and see the door’s void (the new walls could intersect the old doors designed for a existing phase)
2_It would be useful to able to insert a new parameter as a dropdown menù (for e.g. existing phase, new phase, and so on).
In the menatime if there are alternatives, I would appreciate it.
Thank you
@fn_a for demolished elements I’d recommend splitting the portions to be removed, exploding, grouping, and then moving them to a Demo layer to give it a custom line-type, color, etc. Though this removes the ability to tag those items if that is what you need to do.
You can add a parameter in the document properties that specifies a phase. This will show up as an parameter on every element. This info can show up in schedules, so you can have a door schedule with the existing and new doors called out separately and sorted. Though as far as I am aware you aren’t yet able to filter a schedule by a custom parameter.
Hope this helps
Thank you @arcus,
I appreciate your solution, but It requires to “remove” the parametrical way of design existing phase as well.
Hoping on good news about it from VA @fsalla, thank you again
No problem. I typically generate my demo sheets from a separate demo model showing what to remove. That way it doesn’t clutter up the main BIM model. Let me know if you learn a different method.
Hi @fn_a, as @arcus suggests, you can use the custom parameters to define phases of construction and define different values for each object. You can also manage this by separating the objects of each phase by Layer, so you can have more control over their attributes and visibility. The key limitation here is that you cannot prevent VisualARQ objects from intersecting each other when they are close enough, even if they are in hidden layers or have different parameters. You can consider creating the objects of a different phase of construction in a different file and insert it as a block (linked and embedded). This way the objects of each file won’t intersect each other.
In any case, we plan to add a feature for that purpose in future versions.