Anyone out there modelling Water Works?

[Doove]

Hi

we have MEP 2008 here and are not really using it, which seems a real waste. I have limited experience with Architecture, mainly in University buildings.

If there is anyone out there who feels like solving a logic problem or knows of a tutorial on using Architecture for industrial / factory / process constructions could they please send me a few pointers!

The Essentials course plus all the others I have found just describe commercial / residential buildings that all have nice floor levels.

I have underground tanks, multiple mezzanine type platforms, circular manhole chambers, pipe trenches etc. and I am not sure how or IF I can break this up into levels.

E.g. I have 3 divisions to one site; a Pumping Station at 11 metres AOD, a contact tank at 18.6 metres AOD and a filter building at 18.00 metres AOD. The filter building butts up against the other two.

There is a steel platform in the pumping station at 13.5 metres AOD and a concrete platform at 18.00 metres AOD. Steel stairs run between these levels in the pumping station.

The contact tank has a concrete slab on the bottom and the top.

The filter building is a standard industrial steel wall cladding system (probably Kingspan profile if you know it) and so is the pumping station; the pumping station axis is perpendicular to the filter building and it's roof apex is approx 1.5 metres lower. This building is attached to the filter building.

I can't see any really worthwhile logical way to split all these items up! I think I'll have to just draw them all on one drawing, in which case is there any point using model views & sheets?

Or am I being thick?

[aubtiger77]

I use ADT and not sure if I can help...but might get you in the right direction. In the project manager you can set up in levels and areas (ex. new and existing) this way you can set up your drawings and add them together if you need them on the same sheet. hope this helps.

[Hugh_Compton]

Experiment with Structural Members too, they are very powerful.

For those of you with ACA 2010 I have attached an example of a structural member that has automatic centrelines and ctr marks on it's 2D Elevations (no centrelines are shown on the 3D Model). Display Overrides can be very useful...



3D AutoCAD Pipework – http://www.HerculeDesign.com (http://www.herculedesign.com/)

[Doove]

Hi Hugh

Am trying to open your file but I'm using 2008, so at the moment I'm downloading the enormous Trueview which will hopefully convert it.

You couldn't upload the style in the previous dwg file format could you?

I'm trying to get my section style to display structural member centre lines. I've got it working in PLAN by using the axis component. How did you get centres to show in Section / Elevation?

Cheers

Doove

PS I love the column grid tool but will it only display labels in Plan - I would liek to display one or the other axis labels in elevation views. At the moment I've just created a block that looks like the labels and manually added it.

[Doove]

Hugh

I tried converting your file to 2007 format which Trueview 2010 apparently did. It opens in Trueview & Design Review but when opened in MEP 2008 then MEP crashes.

Any chance you could save it in 2007 format and repost it?

cheers

Doove