How do you change a Dimension's 'Element Class' from "Primary" back to "Dimension"

Hi Christina,

I am not sure whether your question is still active (because posted in 2019), but because you answered Tuan's answer, it seems it still is.

Christina Salmon said:

I have accidently changed some of my dimension's Element Class from "Dimension" to "Primary"

Do you remember what tool did you use?

Christina Salmon said:

and I am unable to change them back.

Even when it's weird a bit, such "conversion" can be done in one way only. Even when element can be converted to Primary or Construction class from another class (e.g. Dimension, Patter Component), an opposite way is not possible.

Christina Salmon said:

I would like to know where to find the settings for this and possibly Key-In command or Configuration Setting.

I think there is no such key-in. In fact, it makes sense: Any element can be primary or construction class, but only exactly defined element types can be specific classes (only dimension element can be dimension class). So probably there was no reason to implement such key-in.

I agree with Tuan that VBA should be able to solve it, because (based on MicroStation VBA help) it seems Class property can be set.

With regards,

  Jan

Hi Christina,

I am not sure whether your question is still active (because posted in 2019), but because you answered Tuan's answer, it seems it still is.

Christina Salmon said:

I have accidently changed some of my dimension's Element Class from "Dimension" to "Primary"

Do you remember what tool did you use?

Christina Salmon said:

and I am unable to change them back.

Even when it's weird a bit, such "conversion" can be done in one way only. Even when element can be converted to Primary or Construction class from another class (e.g. Dimension, Patter Component), an opposite way is not possible.

Christina Salmon said:

I would like to know where to find the settings for this and possibly Key-In command or Configuration Setting.

I think there is no such key-in. In fact, it makes sense: Any element can be primary or construction class, but only exactly defined element types can be specific classes (only dimension element can be dimension class). So probably there was no reason to implement such key-in.

I agree with Tuan that VBA should be able to solve it, because (based on MicroStation VBA help) it seems Class property can be set.

With regards,

  Jan

Good morning Jan,

Yes, my question is still active, but I'll close it.

I used Change Attributes. 

Thank you for the VBA affirmation. I'll post it when I get one that works.

Kind regards,

Christina