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AECOsim Dynamic view sections from structural elements don’t cap when opened in Microstation. Is this the standard behavior?

Gilberto Pires
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DVs sections from ABD of a structural element like a slab it doesn’t cap the cut face when I open and activate the section callout in Microstation.

I’m not expecting to see unifications / hatching (or other fancy stuff) because I know Microstations doesn’t have Building Views and dataset family & parts like AECOsim

Just wondering if the described behavior is standard and not a problem with my setup.

 

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Thanks

Regards

Gilberto

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    Forgot to add my setup version

     

    AECOsim SS5

    Microstation SS3

     

    Cheers

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    The cut symbology in ABD is provided by families/parts so does not show dynamically in MicroStation.

    For drawing cached views (the CE default) will present the symbology exactly as seen in ABD.

    MicroStation has other techniques to symbolize cuts, applying patterns via element templates, for instance, but they don't have the same level of management that the family/part system provides.

    Regards

    Marc

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    Hi Marc,

     

    Thanks for your answer but you really didn’t answered my question.

    I know about element templates (they also available in AECOsim) and I know (in the 2D drawing) that if you cache your views then it will show exactly the same in Microstation that’s old news to me that’s why my example is a cut out section activated in the 3D model.

    Also thanks for quoting me…

     

    Regards

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    Hi Gilberto,

    In your ABD example, picture a shape superimposed over the Cut Plane that is used to generate the pattern.  When opened in plain MicroStation, it does not "know" that the shape + pattern exist since they're strictly a product of ABD reading the Family + Part assignment and generating that geometry on-the-fly.  So what you end up with is your MicroStation example.   I would imagine that if you were to place a new Section callout (using plain MicroStation) in the same vicinity of the existing ABD callout, you would get the same results.



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    Hi Steve,
    Thanks for the reply I can understand what you describe.
    I’m not really worried about the hatch pattern I was more after some acknowledge about the missing compatibility between ABD structural elements and plain Microstation, special related to the no capping of the structural elements in cut section callout.
    The reason is that I always generated my drawings from DVs with ABD, always felt that using Microstation for that purpose was downgrading, that was fine and I never really worried about any of this. But now I’m in a managing / coordinating role in projects where drawings from ABD models are being generated only with Microstation, they don’t use ached views and everybody acts like that’s the normal workflow. So you can see the problems here. I try to demonstrate all this and convince people of the lack of compatibility, but find a lot of inertia.
    So I’m just trying to find some info to back me up and convince them to change, not looking for workarounds specially the ones I already know.
    Cheers
     
     
     
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