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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>Unwanted Levels in OpenBuildings Designer DGN Files</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files</link><description /><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>Unwanted Levels in OpenBuildings Designer DGN Files</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files</link><pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 20:23:11 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ccc0056c-6d79-4ac0-b219-ef07020ced5c</guid><dc:creator>Marc Thomas</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files#comments</comments><description>Current Revision posted to OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon Wiki by Marc Thomas on 3/24/2021 8:23:11 PM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Product(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;OpenBuildings Designer (and AECOsim Building Designer)&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;CONNECT Edition, V8i&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Environment:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;N/A&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Area:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Dataset and Content&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subarea:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Levels&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The parts and family system can define different levels for forward, cut, reflected and centerline graphics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In V8i non-Dynamic View based workflows&amp;nbsp;the Drawing Extraction Manager (DEM)&amp;nbsp;created new elements in a separate file, this was not a problem. However, Dynamic Views do not create new elements or create separate files, as the same data is just displayed in a different presentation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem is that these alternate presentations cannot be created on levels that do not already exist. Therefore &lt;strong&gt;the dataset is scanned for undefined levels, which are then added to the DGN-file&lt;/strong&gt;. As a result, users may have levels in their DGN-files that they believe they have not used.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Levels added to the active file are harvested from the Part &amp;amp; Family definitions for Cut Symbology, Forward/Reflected Symbology and Centerline Symbology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This scan is performed by default to support Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In V8i,&amp;nbsp;when only the DEM was being used to create drawings, this scan could be disabled by setting&amp;nbsp;BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS = 0 (Note that&amp;nbsp;a null value will not override the default setting of 1, it must be set to 0.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/35513.connect-edition-what-featurescapabilities-have-been-deprecatedsuperseded" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;DEM is no longer available&lt;/a&gt; in&amp;nbsp;CONNECT Edition this variable has been &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/35469.connect-edition-deprecated-configuration-variables-for-aecosim-building-designer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;deprecated&lt;/a&gt;, CONNECT Edition will always scan the active dataset for the levels required to sucessfully create&amp;nbsp;Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/3060.aspx"&gt;Drawing Views [FAQ]&lt;/a&gt; (scroll down or search for BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS) for more background.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/8850.managing-dgnlib-files.aspx"&gt;Managing dgnlib files&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;also suggests how to avoid levels being copied into dgnlibs&amp;nbsp;when you are making changes to them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/23041/dynamic-view-creation-affected-by-compress-options" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;Dynamic View Creation Affected by Compress Options&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-17/0118.NewLogo.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-width:0px;" alt=" " height="60" src="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-sitefiles/TSG-Logo.png" width="189" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: OpenBuildings Designer, Levels, dgnlib, Dynamic Views, AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Unwanted Levels in OpenBuildings Designer DGN Files</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files/revision/9</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:45:18 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ccc0056c-6d79-4ac0-b219-ef07020ced5c</guid><dc:creator>Marc Thomas</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files#comments</comments><description>Revision 9 posted to OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon Wiki by Marc Thomas on 11/11/2020 9:45:18 AM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Product(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;OpenBuildings Designer (and AECOsim Building Designer)&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;CONNECT Edition, V8i&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Environment:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;N/A&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Area:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Dataset and Content&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subarea:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Levels&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The parts and family system can define different levels for forward, cut, reflected and centerline graphics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In V8i non-Dynamic View based workflows&amp;nbsp;the Drawing Extraction Manager (DEM)&amp;nbsp;created new elements in a separate file, this was not a problem. However, Dynamic Views do not create new elements or create separate files, as the same data is just displayed in a different presentation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem is that these alternate presentations cannot be created on levels that do not already exist. Therefore &lt;strong&gt;the dataset is scanned for undefined levels, which are then added to the DGN-file&lt;/strong&gt;. As a result, users may have levels in their DGN-files that they believe they have not used.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Levels added to the active file are harvested from the Part &amp;amp; Family definitions for Cut Symbology, Forward/Reflected Symbology and Centerline Symbology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This scan is performed by default to support Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In V8i,&amp;nbsp;when only the DEM was being used to create drawings, this scan could be disabled by setting&amp;nbsp;BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS = 0 (Note that&amp;nbsp;a null value will not override the default setting of 1, it must be set to 0.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/35513.connect-edition-what-featurescapabilities-have-been-deprecatedsuperseded" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;DEM is no longer available&lt;/a&gt; in&amp;nbsp;CONNECT Edition this variable has been &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/35469.connect-edition-deprecated-configuration-variables-for-aecosim-building-designer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;deprecated&lt;/a&gt;, CONNECT Edition will always scan the active dataset for the levels required to sucessfully create&amp;nbsp;Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/3060.aspx"&gt;Drawing Views [FAQ]&lt;/a&gt; (scroll down or search for BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS) for more background.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/8850.managing-dgnlib-files.aspx"&gt;Managing dgnlib files&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;also suggests how to avoid levels being copied into dgnlibs&amp;nbsp;when you are making changes to them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-17/0118.NewLogo.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-width:0px;" alt=" " height="60" src="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-sitefiles/TSG-Logo.png" width="189" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: OpenBuildings Designer, Levels, dgnlib, Dynamic Views, AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Unwanted Levels in OpenBuildings Designer DGN Files</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files/revision/8</link><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:43:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ccc0056c-6d79-4ac0-b219-ef07020ced5c</guid><dc:creator>Marc Thomas</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files#comments</comments><description>Revision 8 posted to OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon Wiki by Marc Thomas on 11/11/2020 9:43:12 AM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Product(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;CONNECT Edition, V8i&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Environment:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;N/A&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Area:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Dataset and Content&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subarea:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Levels&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The parts and family system can define different levels for forward, cut, reflected and centerline graphics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In V8i non-Dynamic View based workflows&amp;nbsp;the Drawing Extraction Manager (DEM)&amp;nbsp;created new elements in a separate file, this was not a problem. However, Dynamic Views do not create new elements or create separate files, as the same data is just displayed in a different presentation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem is that these alternate presentations cannot be created on levels that do not already exist. Therefore &lt;strong&gt;the dataset is scanned for undefined levels, which are then added to the DGN-file&lt;/strong&gt;. As a result, users may have levels in their DGN-files that they believe they have not used.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Levels added to the active file are harvested from the Part &amp;amp; Family definitions for Cut Symbology, Forward/Reflected Symbology and Centerline Symbology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This scan is performed by default to support Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In V8i,&amp;nbsp;when only the DEM was being used to create drawings, this scan could be disabled by setting&amp;nbsp;BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS = 0 (Note that&amp;nbsp;a null value will not override the default setting of 1, it must be set to 0.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/35513.connect-edition-what-featurescapabilities-have-been-deprecatedsuperseded" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;DEM is no longer available&lt;/a&gt; in&amp;nbsp;CONNECT Edition this variable has been &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/35469.connect-edition-deprecated-configuration-variables-for-aecosim-building-designer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;deprecated&lt;/a&gt;, CONNECT Edition will always scan the active dataset for the levels required to sucessfully create&amp;nbsp;Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/3060.aspx"&gt;Drawing Views [FAQ]&lt;/a&gt; (scroll down or search for BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS) for more background.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/8850.managing-dgnlib-files.aspx"&gt;Managing dgnlib files&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;also suggests how to avoid levels being copied into dgnlibs&amp;nbsp;when you are making changes to them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-17/0118.NewLogo.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-width:0px;" alt=" " height="60" src="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-sitefiles/TSG-Logo.png" width="189" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: OpenBuildings Designer, Levels, dgnlib, Dynamic Views, AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Unwanted Levels in AECOsim Building Designer DGN Files</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files/revision/7</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Aug 2019 21:53:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ccc0056c-6d79-4ac0-b219-ef07020ced5c</guid><dc:creator>Steve Cocchi</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files#comments</comments><description>Revision 7 posted to OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon Wiki by Steve Cocchi on 8/19/2019 9:53:25 PM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Product(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;CONNECT Edition, V8i&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Environment:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;N/A&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Area:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Dataset and Content&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subarea:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Levels&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/tbody&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The parts and family system can define different levels for forward, cut, reflected and centerline graphics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In V8i non-Dynamic View based workflows&amp;nbsp;the Drawing Extraction Manager (DEM)&amp;nbsp;created new elements in a separate file, this was not a problem. However, Dynamic Views do not create new elements or create separate files, as the same data is just displayed in a different presentation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem is that these alternate presentations cannot be created on levels that do not already exist. Therefore &lt;strong&gt;the dataset is scanned for undefined levels, which are then added to the DGN-file&lt;/strong&gt;. As a result, users may have levels in their DGN-files that they believe they have not used.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Levels added to the active file are harvested from the Part &amp;amp; Family definitions for Cut Symbology, Forward/Reflected Symbology and Centerline Symbology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This scan is performed by default to support Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In V8i,&amp;nbsp;when only the DEM was being used to create drawings, this scan could be disabled by setting&amp;nbsp;BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS = 0 (Note that&amp;nbsp;a null value will not override the default setting of 1, it must be set to 0.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/35513.connect-edition-what-featurescapabilities-have-been-deprecatedsuperseded" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;DEM is no longer available&lt;/a&gt; in&amp;nbsp;CONNECT Edition this variable has been &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/35469.connect-edition-deprecated-configuration-variables-for-aecosim-building-designer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;deprecated&lt;/a&gt;, CONNECT Edition will always scan the active dataset for the levels required to sucessfully create&amp;nbsp;Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/3060.aspx"&gt;Drawing Views [FAQ]&lt;/a&gt; (scroll down or search for BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS) for more background.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/8850.managing-dgnlib-files.aspx"&gt;Managing dgnlib files&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;also suggests how to avoid levels being copied into dgnlibs&amp;nbsp;when you are making changes to them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-17/0118.NewLogo.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-width:0px;" alt=" " height="60" src="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-sitefiles/TSG-Logo.png" width="189" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Levels, dgnlib, AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition, Dynamic Views, AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Unwanted Levels in AECOsim Building Designer DGN Files</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files/revision/6</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 Aug 2019 16:34:39 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ccc0056c-6d79-4ac0-b219-ef07020ced5c</guid><dc:creator>Marc Thomas</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files#comments</comments><description>Revision 6 posted to OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon Wiki by Marc Thomas on 8/9/2019 4:34:39 PM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Product(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;08.11.09.593, 10.00.00.154&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Environment:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;N/A&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Area:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Levels&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subarea:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The parts and family system can define different levels for forward, cut, reflected and centerline graphics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In V8i non-Dynamic View based workflows&amp;nbsp;the Drawing Extraction Manager (DEM)&amp;nbsp;created new elements in a separate file, this was not a problem. However, Dynamic Views do not create new elements or create separate files, as the same data is just displayed in a different presentation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem is that these alternate presentations cannot be created on levels that do not already exist. Therefore &lt;strong&gt;the dataset is scanned for undefined levels, which are then added to the DGN-file&lt;/strong&gt;. As a result, users may have levels in their DGN-files that they believe they have not used.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Levels added to the active file are harvested from the Part &amp;amp; Family definitions for Cut Symbology, Forward/Reflected Symbology and Centerline Symbology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This scan is performed by default to support Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In V8i,&amp;nbsp;when only the DEM was being used to create drawings, this scan could be disabled by setting&amp;nbsp;BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS = 0 (Note that&amp;nbsp;a null value will not override the default setting of 1, it must be set to 0.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/35513.connect-edition-what-featurescapabilities-have-been-deprecatedsuperseded" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;DEM is no longer available&lt;/a&gt; in&amp;nbsp;CONNECT Edition this variable has been &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/35469.connect-edition-deprecated-configuration-variables-for-aecosim-building-designer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"&gt;deprecated&lt;/a&gt;, CONNECT Edition will always scan the active dataset for the levels required to sucessfully create&amp;nbsp;Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/3060.aspx"&gt;Drawing Views [FAQ]&lt;/a&gt; (scroll down or search for BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS) for more background.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/8850.managing-dgnlib-files.aspx"&gt;Managing dgnlib files&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;also suggests how to avoid levels being copied into dgnlibs&amp;nbsp;when you are making changes to them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-17/0118.NewLogo.png"&gt;&lt;img style="border-width:0px;" alt=" " height="60" src="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-sitefiles/TSG-Logo.png" width="189" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Levels, dgnlib, AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition, Dynamic Views, AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Unwanted Levels in AECOsim Building Designer DGN Files</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files/revision/5</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2017 10:12:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ccc0056c-6d79-4ac0-b219-ef07020ced5c</guid><dc:creator>Marc Thomas</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files#comments</comments><description>Revision 5 posted to OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon Wiki by Marc Thomas on 6/22/2017 10:12:31 AM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;p style="padding:0;margin:0;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Product(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;08.11.09.593, 10.00.00.154&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Environment:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;N/A&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Area:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Levels&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subarea:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The parts and family system can define different levels for forward, cut, reflected and centerline graphics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In V8i non-Dynamic View based workflows&amp;nbsp;the Drawing Extraction Manager (DEM)&amp;nbsp;created new elements in a separate file, this was not a problem. However, Dynamic Views do not create new elements or create separate files, as the same data is just displayed in a different presentation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem is that these alternate presentations cannot be created on levels that do not already exist. Therefore, as a workaround, &lt;strong&gt;the dataset is scanned for undefined levels, which are then added to the DGN-file&lt;/strong&gt;. As a result, users may have levels in their DGN-files that they believe they have not used.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Levels added to the active file are harvested from the Part &amp;amp; Family definitions for Cut Symbology, Forward/Reflected Symbology and Centerline Symbology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This scan is performed by default to support Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In V8i,&amp;nbsp;when only the DEM was being used to create drawings, this scan could be disabled by setting&amp;nbsp;BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS = 0 (Note that&amp;nbsp;a null value will not override the default setting of 1, it must be set to 0.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/35513.connect-edition-what-featurescapabilities-have-been-deprecatedsuperseded" target="_blank"&gt;DEM is no longer available&lt;/a&gt; in&amp;nbsp;CONNECT Edition this variable has been &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/35469.connect-edition-deprecated-configuration-variables-for-aecosim-building-designer" target="_blank"&gt;deprecated&lt;/a&gt;, CONNECT Edition will always scan the active dataset for the levels required to sucessfully create&amp;nbsp;Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/3060.aspx"&gt;Drawing Views [FAQ]&lt;/a&gt; (scroll down or search for BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS) for more background.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/8850.managing-dgnlib-files.aspx"&gt;Managing dgnlib files&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;also suggests how to avoid levels being copied into dgnlibs&amp;nbsp;when you are making changes to them.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-wikis-components-files/00-00-00-00-18/NewLogo.png"&gt;&lt;img width="189" height="60" style="border-width:0px;" alt=" " src="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-sitefiles/TSG-Logo.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Levels, dgnlib, AECOsim Building Designer CONNECT Edition, Dynamic Views, AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Unwanted Levels in AECOsim Building Designer DGN Files</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files/revision/4</link><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2015 18:06:23 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ccc0056c-6d79-4ac0-b219-ef07020ced5c</guid><dc:creator>Marc Thomas</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files#comments</comments><description>Revision 4 posted to OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon Wiki by Marc Thomas on 8/7/2015 6:06:23 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img width="189" height="60" style="border-width:0px;" alt=" " src="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-sitefiles/TSG-Logo.png" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Applies To&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Product(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;08.11.09.593&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Environment:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;N/A&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Area:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;dgnlibs, levels, linestyles&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subarea:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Author:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Marc Thomas, Bentley Technical Support Group&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The parts and family system can define different levels for forward, cut, reflected and centerline graphics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In non-Dynamic View based workflows&amp;nbsp;the Drawing Extraction Manager created new elements in a separate file, this was not a problem. However, Dynamic Views do not create new elements or create separate files, as the same data is just displayed in a different presentation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem is that these alternate presentations cannot be created on levels that do not already exist. Therefore, as a workaround, &lt;strong&gt;the dataset is scanned for undefined levels, which are then added to the DGN-file&lt;/strong&gt;. As a result, users may have levels in their DGN-files that they believe they have not used.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Levels added to the active file are harvested from the Part &amp;amp; Family definitions for Cut Symbology, Forward/Reflected Symbology and Centerline Symbology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This scan is performed by default to support Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/3060.aspx"&gt;Drawing Views [FAQ]&lt;/a&gt; (scroll down or search for BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS) for more details.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/8850.managing-dgnlib-files.aspx"&gt;Managing dgnlib files&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;also suggests how to avoid levels being copied into dgnlibs&amp;nbsp;when you are making changes to them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Levels, dgnlib, AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Unwanted Levels in AECOsim Building Designer DGN Files</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files/revision/3</link><pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:11:55 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ccc0056c-6d79-4ac0-b219-ef07020ced5c</guid><dc:creator>Marc Thomas</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files#comments</comments><description>Revision 3 posted to OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon Wiki by Marc Thomas on 2/17/2015 2:11:55 PM&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;h1&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;img width="189" height="60" style="border-width:0px;" alt=" " src="/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-components-sitefiles/TSG-Logo.png" /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Applies To&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Product(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Version(s):&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;08.11.09.593&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Environment:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;N/A&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Area:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;dgnlibs, levels, linestyles&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Subarea:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Author:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Marc Thomas, Bentley Technical Support Group&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The parts and family system can define different levels for forward, cut, reflected and centerline graphics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In non-Dynamic View based workflows&amp;nbsp;the Drawing Extraction Manager created new elements in a separate file, this was not a problem. However, Dynamic Views do not create new elements or create separate files, as the same data is just displayed in a different presentation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem is that these alternate presentations cannot be created on levels that do not already exist. Therefore, as a workaround, &lt;strong&gt;the dataset is scanned for undefined levels, which are then added to the DGN-file&lt;/strong&gt;. As a result, users may have levels in their DGN-files that they believe they have not used.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Levels added to the active file are harvested from the Part &amp;amp; Family definitions for Cut Symbology, Forward/Reflected Symbology and Centerline Symbology.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This scan is performed by default to support Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/3060.aspx"&gt;Drawing Views [FAQ]&lt;/a&gt; (scroll down or search for BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS) for more details.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/8850.managing-dgnlib-files.aspx"&gt;Managing dgnlib files&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;also suggests how to avoid levels being copied into dgnlibs&amp;nbsp;when you are making changes to them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Levels, dgnlib, AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Unwanted Levels in AECOsim Building Designer DGN Files</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files/revision/2</link><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 13:57:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ccc0056c-6d79-4ac0-b219-ef07020ced5c</guid><dc:creator>Marc Thomas</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files#comments</comments><description>Revision 2 posted to OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon Wiki by Marc Thomas on 7/23/2014 1:57:09 PM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Author:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The parts and family system can define different levels for forwarded, cut, reflected and centerline graphics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In non-Dynamic View based workflows&amp;nbsp;the Drawing Extraction Manager created new elements in a separate file, this was not a problem. However, Dynamic Views do not create new elements or create separate files, as the same data is just displayed in a different presentation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem is that these alternate presentations cannot be created on levels that do not already exist. Therefore, as a workaround, &lt;strong&gt;the dataset is scanned for undefined levels, which are then added to the DGN-file&lt;/strong&gt;. As a result, users may have levels in their DGN-files that they believe they have not used.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This scan is performed by default to support Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/3060.aspx"&gt;Drawing Views [FAQ]&lt;/a&gt; (scroll down or search for BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS) for more details.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/8850.managing-dgnlib-files.aspx"&gt;Managing dgnlib files&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;also suggests how to avoid levels being copied into dgnlibs&amp;nbsp;when you are making changes to them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: Levels, dgnlib, AECOsim Building Designer&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>Unwanted Levels in AECOsim Building Designer DGN Files</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files/revision/1</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 10:10:05 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:ccc0056c-6d79-4ac0-b219-ef07020ced5c</guid><dc:creator>Marc Thomas</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/13084/unwanted-levels-in-openbuildings-designer-dgn-files#comments</comments><description>Revision 1 posted to OpenBuildings | AECOsim | Speedikon Wiki by Marc Thomas on 4/14/2014 10:10:05 AM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The parts and family system can define different levels for forwarded, cut, reflected and centerline graphics.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In non-Dynamic View based workflows&amp;nbsp;the Drawing Extraction Manager created new elements in a separate file, this was not a problem. However, Dynamic Views do not create new elements or create separate files, as the same data is just displayed in a different presentation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The problem is that these alternate presentations cannot be created on levels that do not already exist. Therefore, as a workaround, &lt;strong&gt;the dataset is scanned for undefined levels, which are then added to the DGN-file&lt;/strong&gt;. As a result, users may have levels in their DGN-files that they believe they have not used.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This scan is performed by default to support Dynamic Views.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/3060.aspx"&gt;Drawing Views [FAQ]&lt;/a&gt; (scroll down or search for BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS) for more details.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/8850.managing-dgnlib-files.aspx"&gt;Managing dgnlib files&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;also suggests how to avoid levels being copied into dgnlibs&amp;nbsp;when you are making changes to them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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