Hello,
I was wondering if it was possible to model and adjust solids in Openbuildings without making a parametric solid that keeps every step saved. I have colleagues that tend to design in Openbuildings, but keeps adjusting certain volumes, cutting here and there, pushing and pulling a bit, cutting holes, and after a while we get parametric solids with a tree of around 50 steps if not more. We get the feeling that this might make for a very heavy object, and indeed files seem to be getting rather large rather quick. We can always drop the object, but it would be easier if we had access to either non feature tools, or to a setting to automaticly drop an object after using a tool.
Thanks in advance and with kind regards,
Jeroen
Hello Jeroen,
If you want the parametric solid to get changed to an smart solid, then instead of dropping the element, you can select the element & then in the key-in dialog type 'convert smartsolid' & once you hit enter from the MicroStation property dialog you will notice that element has turned into a smart solid.
I hope this helps you.
Regards,Alifur
Hi Alifur,
Thanks for your response. Unfortunately, when we use this key-in it cuts part of the name of the part, so that it loses the connection to the part, so this is not really an option for us.
Also, ideally we would like to just draw in smartsolids without having to always convert.
With kind regards,Jeroen
Hello Jeroen, I have also seen the same item. The best thing i would suggest is that to create the solid first then convert the solid to smart solid and then on that smart solid apply the rule, that way the part & family will not be trimmed.
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It seems that indeed the way you are describing is for now the best option. Bentley is looking into error of 'convert smartsolid', but until then I have to use this workaround. It would sure be easier if we could just work with smartsolids instead of parametric solids, but it seems that also isn't possible...
Regards,
Interesting that the family and parts info is lost when converting to smartsolids. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
Not sure what kind of solids you are dealing with but one advantage p-solids have is inbuilt instancing. This makes it quicker than s-solids when there is a lot of repetition. Remember a tunnel model that was only 50m long formed out of segments of s-solids that was painfully slow.