ABS for Site Piping?

[Clyne Curtis]

Hey All,

A friend of mine just started a new job with a company that designs water parks. The boss handed him a package of ABS 2005 and told him to learn it in order to design the site piping for future projects. I realize the "B" stands for building, but can you use ABS to do site utilities in 2d and 3d? If so, where can I steer him to find more information, tutorials, etc?

Thanks for the help!

Clyne

[arcadia_x27]

What do you mean by site piping? You can draw just about any type of water system in ABS with any type of piping. It doesn't do drainage pipes and water mains if thats what you think. thats more along the lines of the Civil products. ABS is able to do HVAC, Plumbing and electrical for structures ranging from a simple residential house to multi storey building to large industrial or manufacturing facilities. Its build on top of Architectural desktop so if your friend has a good background in that then he wont have alot of problems transitioning to Autodesk Building Systems. If he doesn't have any ADT knowledge. He may want to start with learning that aspect of the software before going into the more advanced ABS things. Paul Aubin's books on ADT are really well written and informative and Autodesk Press has some books on ABS. Theres not really alot of resources that I've found on ABS out there.but they do exist. Autodesk also offers free training web casts on their website for ABS.

[Clyne Curtis]

Thanks for the reply Arcadia...I'm not sure they even know what they want! His area of design responsibility will be the underground utility piping. They were hoping to use surfaces created in Land Desktop and integrate them with the 3d piping layout. Sounds to me like they are definitely using the wrong software. BTW, the contractor stipulated the use of ABS 2005 for the design package, so their hands are kinda tied.

Thanks

Clyne