AEC|BOLT BIM Cloud platform enables user to create their own databases or templates. To describe the process an illustration of creating material database will be performed.
Log in with your AEC | BOLT Building Design Suite account
Go to your library
Create new project → go to ParamML tab
Now we will write parametric definitions of materials and add them to database. For detailed background information regarding parametric definitions, see Introduction to ParamML (Parametric Markup Language) . There is no need for new release to use new material definitions that we will add.
Overview of Building Design Suite material database. Our new database should be like this;
This is how our empty object looks like;
Add Database=”AEC_Material” to first line as shown in Building Design Suite material database. This state indicates that our project is a “AEC_Material” type database object.
You can search core objects by typing words after “<“ or you can write objects manually. Objects must start with “<O” and end with “</O>” .
Write “Unit Objects” to be assigned as” Unit Category” (UC) to materials as shown below.
Default core unit object is shown above. You can edit name and other parameters as you need or you can write a unit object which has all parameters shown above manually as shown below.
Parameters will be calculated in units of “internal” unit category but will be displayed in assigned unit category. Unit object examples shown above will be assigned to material’s parametic definitions as unit category.
Write group object by searching from core objects or manually as shown below. Select “CORE OBJ: Group”.
Give name to group object. Since we are going to add more lines inside the group object delete “/>” in the line 4 and type “>” instead. We must type “</O>” at the end of object. We are going to define one steel material object and one concrete material object in NewMaterial group.
Write first material object by searching as shown below and Select “CORE OBJ: Object” or write object manually.
Name the object as” NewSteel” since we will define steel first and change type of object with ‘T=”AEC_Material”’ to be able to see this object in AEC | BOLT Building Design Suite import list.
We must assign our object as steel by a parameter and add steel properties by writing patameters for each property.
Write parameters by searching as shown above and select “PARAM: Parameter (Numeric)” or write parameters manually.
Steel material object should be as above. First parameters value V=”0” states that this AEC_Material object is steel other parameters state the properties of steel material. “UT” is unit type of parameter and “UC” is unit category of parameter.
Concrete material object will be very similar to steel material object as script.
Concrete material objects should be as above. First parameters value V=”1” states that this AEC_Material object is concrete other parameters state the properties of concrete material.
Overview of our material database is shown below.
You can write more material parametric definitions as explained above.
NewMaterialDBForTraining database will be look as below in Building Design Suite import list.
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