Hello,
I managed to make a parametric cell - works quite intuitive - so far so good.
BUT: when placing the cell in a drawing I was completely disappointed:
1/ I was not able to place the cell interactive (i.e. rotate the cell while placing the way we can place normal cells)
2/ All elements in the cell are moving to the active level.... This is really not what I want - I want them to keep the levels I used while making the cell.
Can this please be changed? Especially the second one is too crazy to be true!
Luc Dierick
Hi Luc,
I cannot reproduce point 2 in your message. I have placed a parametric cell, made up of different solids using different levels, in a new DGN file with only the "default" level in it.
The result is that all levels used by the parametric cell have been created in the host file after its placement, as expected.
I have attached an example, try to place it in a new DGN file.
R,
Marco
DoubleDoorCabinet.dgn
Marco,
I placed the cabinet in the file attached.
The levels Doors, Cabinets and Handles are indeed created in the file.
But when I set the level Doors off in level display the doors of the cabinet are still visible.
When i set the level Default off in level display the whole cabinet is invisible.
I tried both View Display and Global Display.
Can you reproduce this? Is it a bug or something in my file/configuration? Strange thing is also when I drop the cell the layers and attributes are correct... But I don't think it is a good idea to drop all my parametric cells:-)
Thanks for looking into this!
test 3D.dgn
Thanks for sorting this out. As David said it is also important that the correct (bylevel) colors an (bylevel) weights are used when representing parametric cells. But I suppose this will indeed be related?
Luc