How to place shared cell in a library?

Hello,

I have the following situation:

I have received DWG file and it has various shared cells in the model. I obviously don't have corresponding .cel file with the definitions and I know I can export them all to separate file but it creates hundreds of models which have nested models (definitions) inside with even more nested definitions and it's too messy to work with. What I would like to do is to attach a blank library and save definitions I need to edit in that library one by one so I can edit shared cell and update in the model and move to the next one. Is that possible somehow without taking this shared cell, resetting rotation/scale setting up the origin, dropping the instance, creating a new definition for editing and cleaning up the file? It seems very complicated since that definition is already in the file... I am happy if it could be done programmatically even! Ideally, I would love to be able to edit it in place but that doesn't seem to be possible?

Also related to this, what would happen if I do the following:

I have shared cell (A) inside multiple other shared cells (B, C, D and so on) in my file and it is also all saved in the library. Then I open the library and edit shared cell (A) and save the library. Now I understand that all the shared cells in the library (B, C, D and so on) contain updated definition as the library has basically nested structure with nested models, right? So if I now open my main file and reload the library and decide to update those cells (B, C, D and so on) from the library, am I safe to assume that all the instances will contain an updated version of the cell (A)??

Regards,

Bartosz Perepeczo

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  • Jon,

    This creates a new cell that has no link to other shared cells. It still needs to be placed in a library, has the scale, rotation and origin manually specified and then updated from the library.

    Going back to the original question(s) can it be confirmed that:

    1. There is no way to put shared cell definition in a library directly from DGN file other than doing global export of all shared cells.

    2. There is no way of editing shared cell definition in DGN file without exporting it to the library first?

    Just so I can close this discussion without working solution.

    Regards,

    Bartosz Perepeczo

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