Brian Thomas, AIA, LEED AP BD+C
GH2 Architects
Brian, I just tested it here. It works as expected. I made a compound cell with elements on multiple levels in 3D and multiple other levels for 2D symbol. After placing the new cell, all levels are correct.
One trick you can use to quickly ID the level of elements inside cells is to hold the alt key while selecting an element. This will set the active style to those of the selected element, so you can easily see the level of each subcomponenent without drilling deep into the information dialog.
Here is my next guess. The file in which you are placing the cell does not contain the levels called in the cell and neither do these levels exist in your dgn library. Could it be that these are levels you created in your office and you must copy those into the dgnlibs for V8i?
Has a way around this been found yet? Unless I remake compound cells in my active dgn the levels go haywire..
Duncan