Dynamic views using AECOsim (SS5) from Open Plant Modeler (SS5) piping

Hi Gilberto,

Would you like to send us a sample of the OPM elements affected?

The fact that the Forward volume is showing up suggests that it could be something about the symbology of those elements when cut.

Hi Mark,

Im not an OPM user so don’t know if its possible to change the symbology from OPM.

Anyway in AECOsim when the view is demoted and symbology stops being controlled from the dataset family / part then its possible to get the cut information.

I also applied a part to this elements from the dataset, and played with the Dataset Drawing symbology but changes only showed in the forward view, cut was never present.

I believe this may be related to the fact that in AECOsim this elements are listed as compound cells. (Drawing symbols turned off or on get the same result)

The work around we probably will be using is to export an i.dgn from OPM, then you get Cut information because the elements are now listed by AECOsim as cells

But it would be great if it could work with the native files...

Thanks

Regards

OPM_file_Gilberto.dgn

Hi Gilberto,

I am seeing the same results, where the OPM elements are not displaying only when falling along the cut plane.   As a potential workaround, can you try copying the OPM elements into the active AECOsim file to see if that changes the behavior?   It does do that here.    A more extreme version would be to make a copy of the OPM file, and drop the Compound Cell header so that the result is a series of normal cells instead.  They also seem to display correctly, even when referenced.

On a positive note, when I tried the same test using AECOsim CONNECT Edition everything seems to work correctly with the live reference attachment and without dropping anything.  So it would seem something has changed (for the better).