How can I edit a Cell in MicroStation to have all instances of that Cell in my drawing to be updated dynamically?
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.
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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
Thanks Ron, I tried your procedure, I understand it and it works in MS .dgn files. However, when I am trying this same procedure in .dwg work flow, I cannot create a new dgn model because only type selectable is "sheet" and "sheet from seed" and the rest is grayed out. (see attached) I don't know how that would work for cells. Note sure if there is a configuration setting for this? I use both AutoCAD and Microstation and it is much simpler to work and edit blocks in AutoCAD then the procedure outlined for MS. That is a bout the only thing I like about AC is the ability to do blocks and easy edits for them. I do not know why it has to be that difficult in MS to modify a cell? Programming issues I guess? I wonder if the newer version(s) will address this? Thanks again for your time!