The AEC Work Structure The Good the Bad

The A/E/C Work Structure The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Roger Fujan - FRog Work Structure Committee Technical lead USACE - Omaha District MACC Conference Kansas City August 2017 US Army Corps of Engineers BUILDING STRONG® CHANGE

In The Beginning… § Reasons for the Work Structure ► Simplify the old TS Workspace ► Provide A/E/C Standard Content ► NOT just for Bentley BIM ► AEs and Contractors asked for help BUILDING STRONG®

In The Beginning… § Items that had to be in place to get it done: ► A/E/C CAD Standards v 6. 0 ► A/E/C Graphic Standards v 2. 0 ► A project folder structure ► A list of software that it would work with ► People willing to work on it BUILDING STRONG®

In The Beginning… BUILDING STRONG®

In The Beginning… BUILDING STRONG®

In The Beginning… § You CAN NOT automate “VARIES”! BUILDING STRONG®

In The Beginning… § The A/E/C Work Structure was initially released on 8/21/2015 BUILDING STRONG®

Then there was two… § Quick bug fix Then there was three… § Better DWG support § Corrected things that didn’t work § More bug fixes with cells BUILDING STRONG®

Last year… § Update 4 ► More bug fixes ► More improvements • DWG work mode • Annotation scale of hatch patterns ► § Update 4 B ► Woops… BUILDING STRONG®

Last year… § Update 5 ► AECOsim Building Designer • Updated rules for (SS 6) ► Power. In. Roads • Update XIN, FXL, and ITL files ► Small changes to cells ► Auto. CAD • Metric line types • Templates based on units BUILDING STRONG®

And Now… § Update 6 ► Metric dataset improvements ► Project. Wise improvements ► In. Roads Survey • Phase 1: w w Consensus from Surveyors on ALPHA codes Match that with the XIN ► Printing improvements ► Building Designer BUILDING STRONG®

What’s Next? … § AEC_WS_001 ► Bentley V 8 i based • No new development • Don’t expect much, other than bug fixes ► Bentley CONNECT based • Not likely due to the vast differences BUILDING STRONG®

What’s Next? … § AEC_WS_001 ► Auto. CAD based • Depends on what might be needed • Don’t expect much, other than bug fixes ► Revit • Don’t expect anything BUILDING STRONG®

What’s Next? … § AEC_WS_002 - Starting over: ► Common Items: • Simplify the folder structure • User base and software changing • Reorganization around Omni. Class Table 23 structure w w Even that doesn’t work well It will have to be highly modified • Object Driven w w Move away from discipline base Using Templates BUILDING STRONG®

What’s Next? … § AEC_WS_002 - Starting over: ► Common Items (cont. ): • Changes are happening w w w We have to keep up And do it quickly How do we deal with legacy items? ¡ Change from a historical ways of thinking ¡ Update legacy files • Timeline w BETA – FY 18 Q 2 BUILDING STRONG®

What’s Next? … § AEC_WS_002 ► Bentley Items: • Bentley CONNECT Workspace w w Whole new configuration Whole new delivery method • Complete rewrite of custom programs w w Old MVBAs no longer work with CONNECT Migrate from MVBA to Addins BUILDING STRONG®

What’s Next? … § AEC_WS_002 ► Autodesk Items: • Auto. CAD and Civil 3 D w Deliver and develop content with the Work Structure • Revit integration w w w People are asking for it, why aren’t we doing it? Include Revit Templates with changes to the WS? ? BUILDING STRONG®

What do you think? § Questions: BUILDING STRONG®