Creating drawings from BIM section planes

Sara_Davoudi
Sara_Davoudi
in BricsCAD BIM

Hi
I would like some help and suggestion regarding documentation of a BIM project.
What I'm looking for is a way to speed up the process between a finalized BIM model and the exported pdf documentation. The final pdf is going to be about 10 pages of different paper size, and in each page there are one viewport or more. Some information to explain the current situation.
_ I have the sheetset with custom properties and connected title blocks in a .dwt
_ I made all the section planes in the master model (by section I also mean elevations and plans).

I want to be able to get all the drawings in a document after I change the main model in the master file (i.e. replacing it with the next project). What would be the best approach to achieve such a thing?
For Example, is it possible to generate all the sections quickly in my template file?
I know I can use section to block command to get the sections as block, but this I have to do for each section seperately and in seperate files.

Comments

  • Virgil
    Virgil

    Hello.

    I am not sure there is a straightforward way to achieve the desired task.

    One way of working could be like this:

    • Create a file where the viewports will be saved.
    • Select the sections in the model and edit the Destination file property to point to that file.
    • Run BIMSECTIONUPDATE and select the sections for which to generate viewports.
    • At this stage the viewports are generated in the layout indicated in the Sheet Set settings.
    • Use cut and paste and place the viewports as desired.
    • Run BIMSECTIONUPDATE again to restore the links between sections and viewports.
    • It might be needed to delete the first sheet from the sheet set, if no longer needed.

  • Sara_Davoudi
    Sara_Davoudi

    Thanks, it really helps the workflow!