Can some please explain why or how you uses the following in element templates
Levels you can have a primary level which seems to be the level the template will take when it is used, yet you can added multiply levels below this which dont seem to have any function at all.
This also seem to apply to all the attributes within the templates including colour fill, hatching etc
many thanks
Mark
Rod WingSenior Systems Analyst
Hi Mark,reading your post and the answers, it seems to me more different topics are inside your question.
Unknown said:i would like to do is have a template that allows us to place...
Unknown said:to place a shape that can be fill and hatched at the same time but have the hatch, fill and shape all applied to different levels
Unknown said:to place a shape that can be fill and hatched at the same time
It requires two steps: In the first the filled element will be created, in the second an area defined by the element will be hatched. Custom tools allow to call more key-ins step by step, but I think it's not enough to implement the functionality you required. On the other hand I am quite sure VBA macro can do it.
Unknown said:This is what i thought having the ability to added more than one level and colour etc to a template
No. The only tool which currently works with multiple properties defined in templates is Standard Checker.
With regards,
Jan
Bentley Accredited Developer: iTwin Platform - AssociateLabyrinth Technology | dev.notes() | cad.point
Unknown said:If there are multiple instances of the same property and you do not want to use the default property, before drawing the element use the appropriate toolboxes to select “secondary” properties that match those in the template.
It would be noted that there is no any dependency or linkage between active template and a selection of parameters implemented, so if multiple properties are defined in the template definition, it's not indicated anywhere and user is not aware of it. In my opinion it makes the whole concept of multiple elements pretty ineffective and hardly usable. The only tool which accepts and works with multiple properties is Standard Checker.
The orignal poster Mark stated and I quote "fill and shape all applied to different levels"
I must not be understanding this but as far as I can tell templates may offer you multiple options but it cannot create
a shape or polygon that the fill and out line are on different levels to eachother..
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