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We are having severe problems with using Dynamic Views in Structural Building Designer,
The problem revolves around structural hidden lines. DV is simply incapable of producing the correct results.
DV-PlanNoHidden is a plan on the slab. Already you'll see there are errors with unification where the pads & beams lie in thesame plane as the top of the slab. This does not happen with DEM.
DV-PlanHidden is the reflected DV to show the true structural hidden line. No unification, and the "fold" lines between the edge beams & pads and the central pads & slab are missing. (These appear if you switch to cached attachment.)
DV-Compiled is an attempt to reference them together, but as they are the same file, MicroStation is incapable of displaying them both. (We have tested this set up with the Drawing models in separate files and, althoughthey now both reference, one file hides the other as they are views of solid elements rather than extracted linework, as per DEM.)
DV-Plan, which includes hidden edges, using the Forward (show hidden edges) display style. The results of this are totally wrong, although this is somewhat expected, and hence why we always use a reflected underside view to generate the structural hidden lines.
After closer examination, the reason why you are seeing the results you see is because of the way the modeling was done, meaning that it is not a Drawing View issue but more of how the structure was modeled in the program.
Here the problem lies where the elements are intercepting/clashing with the slap and it is the reason why you are seeing less than satisfactory results in the drawing views. In this case, when modeling make sure that the elements are not clashing or intercepting instead make sure that they are just touching and that way the drawing views will hidden line engine will generate the symbology with better accuracy and results.
the Dynamic View unification algorithm called “Unification Glue” was introduced when AECOsim was first released - The Unification Glue will "not" perform unifications on elements that are crossing or have embedded geometry but it will unify elements that are coincident.
It is possible to disable the unification GLUE so that you may model the elements as you wish (intercepting or not) after the variable has been disabled make sure to use the Key-in to refresh the variable and this will also refresh the DV(s).
Variable and Key-in command:
-Variable > BB_UNIFICATION_GLUE - To disable = MERGE.
-Key-in > MDL COMMAND DVREFRESH.(Use lowercase)