(Some of the following steps may require admin permissions depending on your network/configuration.)

Click the Filter Settings… button, then click Add:

Give your Filter a name and Display Name:

Use the arrow buttons to move the Catalog Types that you want to see in 'My Items' from the Available Catalog Types on the left into Selected Catalog Types on the right, click OK when you are finished.

Tick only 'My Items' and click OK:

The result is a precisely targeted Catalog:

See help topic 'Modify Catalog Filters' for more detail.

Note that you can right-click on a Catalog Type at any time and modify the filters that is it a member of.

Where are my custom filters stored?

In the current version of AECOsim Building Designer custom filters are stored in the default location:

C:\ProgramData\Bentley\AECOsimBuildingDesigner V8i Ss6\WorkSpace\BuildingDatasets\Dataset_<region>\datagroupsystem

To make them available to all users or to a project some work with xml is required. Open these xml files in an editor such as Notepad++ and look for the new section created with the 'My Items' name.

Copy the files containing 'My Items' to a company location, e.g. W:\SS6\Dataset_Company\datagroupsystem. Do not rename the files! The names of the company or project files need to be the same as the originals.

Delete the custom content from the original file, and the standard content from the company copy. The custom file will look something like this

We hope to add a UI control for the location of custom filters in a future release.