How can I edit a Cell in MicroStation to have all instances of that Cell in my drawing to be updated dynamically?
Thanks all, partially answered. I understand the replacement of a cell, and now doing it globally. However, I am experiencing an issue with how to modify (edit) when an instances of the cell I created is populated in the drawing. Please notice the "Open for editing" is grayed out, leaving this cell inoperable to modify. See the example of this on the left side figure attached. If I create a cell and do not place that cell into the drawing, I still can modify the cell in the example to the right figure. Once I place the cell, I can no longer modify (edit) that cell with the procedure I mentioned. Only thing I could do is delete all the instances of the cell in every location, then go to the dialog box and delete it from there, then I could do modifications to that cell. I want to know how to modify (edit) a cell that I created that is already placed inside my drawing multiple locations without deleting it everywhere. There has got to be a better way to do this for sure, I must be missing something. If you can explain also using screen shot examples, I would appreciate it! Thanks all!
PS. I am Using MicroStation V8i Series 4 08.11.09.829
That's a shared cell, I've tried but never found a method to modify a shared cell definition. So, perhaps, harking back to the original question, you can't.
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Bob, thanks for the reply..... I was afraid that this was going to be the answer because I can't find anything about it nowhere.
You can make changes to a shared cell by following these steps
Regards,Ron
Well I saved that off to my self support folder. It will come in handy some day.
great. and now, if only MS had a tool to make this in one or two clicks ...BTW, when V8 was breand new thing there was a discussion of possibilities of in-place cell editing. which we still don't have. however, how complicated would be to add it?
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I have created a tripplenested cell (cell in cell in cell), then used the below mechanism. (save my dgn as dwg to get shared cells)
I have edited the cell lib that resulted from the export. Then replaced the cell. Worked fine for me
https://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/askinga/w/askinga/3275/how-to-modify-shared-cells-that-have-tags
nestcell edit.dgn