Building Elements within Cells

We have a highly repetitive series of residential units across a large project including bathrooms, internal partitions, furniture etc. In plain old Microstation we would have used cells to group together these elements and place them throughout the design, enabling them to be quickly updated altogether when needed.

However in ABD if we use cells to group together building elements, such as walls, furniture, doors etc then they cannot be seen by the datagroup explorer without first being dropped. An alternative would to be to put the room elements within a dgn and use references instead of cells but it quickly leads to an unwieldy sets of attachments.

Any suggestions as to how to best to handle repetitive groups of objects rather than just repetitive individual objects?

Thanks,
Thomas

ABD SS4 08.11.09.593
GB Dataset

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