This article covers how to group model validation clashes and clearances into one comment and send them to the design team responsible for updating the design.
You can send issues about detected clashes and clearance violations as individual BCFs per BIM element, or group several issues together in one group comment. Group comments track whether the individual conflicts are resolved and close automatically once all of them are addressed.
Note
Use group comments to send multiple related clashes together, for example mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) clashes with walls to the architect, or clashes within your own discipline to a specialist colleague.
How to setup group comments
Grouped comments are only available for the building set up for automation.
Activate and set up automation in Settings
Box
Design: 'Automation'.
To group conflicts for a user group, assign the user group to the discipline that is set up in model validation:
When setting up new disciplines, go to Design
Model validation
Add
Discipline and set visibility to the user group you want to assign it to.
When editing an existing discipline, go to Design
Model validation
'All disciplines'
Hover over the discipline
Set the visibility to the user group you want to assign it to.
User rights
To assign a discipline to a user group, you need to be a project administrator, project planning manager, or the group admin for the relevant user group.
How to use group comments
Once this setup is complete, anyone the discipline is visible to can create a group comment.
Note
You can only send group comments to the users of the user group assigned to the discipline. For example, if 'Architecture' is assigned to the user group 'Architect', group comments for that discipline can only go to users in 'Architect'.
How to create new group comments
Create a new group comment by opening the conflicting object groups, so that the individual objects appear as a list on the right. Click Create group comment.
Then, multi-select all objects whose conflicts you want to add to the group comment by ticking their check boxes.
Once you have selected all relevant clashes and clearances, confirm by clicking 'Create comment'. Fill out the comment as usual and send it to the right responsible party.
Recipients receive these conflicts as a single comment that they can view in Dalux or open in Revit to resolve issues directly in the design software.
How to track group comments
When designs are updated and issues are resolved, the comment tracks how many of the conflicts are still open. When all remaining conflicts are resolved, the comment closes automatically. You can also manually close comments if necessary.
Note
You cannot reopen manually or automatically closed group comments, even if not all remaining conflicts were resolved. Create a new comment if you notice unresolved issues.