19 Dimension Driven Cells

Placing a DDD solution as a cell (using the DD Cell tool palette, keyin: DDCELL TOOL) opens up a few more functions to us.

It allows us to place the cell with or without constraints and designate each variables values before placing the cell graphics into the design file.

If we remeber from an earlier video, I mentioned that to Copy and DDD solution - use Microstation's clipboard; alternatively you could create and place cells if that is more suitable.

Another item to note is that all DDD solutions are automatically assigned to a Graphic Group which can be useful when deleteing a cell from a collection of overlapping but independent DDD solutions.

In the video I also go through the other tools available from the DD Cell tool palette. One useful one is Drop Driving Dimension, although the normal technique here is simply delete the dimension, this option might get you out of a hole at some time.

Lastly there are a couple of tools in the DD Cell tool palette which don't work for me, DD Cell Origin and Attach DD Cell, for unknown reasons.

UPDATE: While I still haven't located the root of my problem with DD Cell Origin and Attach DD Cell, Sam Wilson from Bentley has been able to test and report everything seems to be working fine in the latest Athens release.

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