"Triforma has intentionally restricted changes to this element"

We have a project that was done in Bentley Architecture. The project is now on construction stages and there are some changes that needs to be done on the floor plan. We are now using the extracted 2D floor plans to do the changes. But we can not make any changes to the floor plan because of the message "Triforma has intentionally restricted changes to this element".  Is there a way we can make the 2D plan editable? Thanks for any help.

 

jun

BA 08050407

  • We had a problem similar but what I was doing was exporting to dwg for our consultants.

    The interesting part was that I was giving these guys dwgs exported from BA and they were using Microstation by itself. And they still had that dialog box "Triforma has locked this element for editing". That is really funny..

     But seriously.. I noticed that when you go to export this to dwg and you go into the dwg save options there is an option to "Remove application data" once I did that then they could edit the files normally.

     Not a soloution to the problem above by any means but this is good info along the same lines.

    Damon Aspden.
    Warren And Mahoney Architects.

    New Zealand

  • OK, I figured out a method that works fairly easily. In AECOsim Building Designer:
    1. create a new macro
    2. record the key-ins "choose all", "tfremove", and then Pick "OK" on the annoying dialog that keeps coming up.
    3. Stop the recording.
    4. edit the macro and remove the single quote from the line " MbeSendCommand "MBE1 CLOSEMODAL OK" "
    5. save the macro.
    6. create a batch process, and enter the keyin "macro (whatever name you used for your macro)"
    7. Run the batch process on all of the files you want to remove the TF object lock from.

    You would think Bentley could make the batch process tool a little more user friendly and add a check box to "OK" all dialogs or suppress them with OK or make a method to suppress the dialog from tfremove in the command line (since you are probably going to want to batch process it on a lot of files if you are going to do it at all).