Hello,
Situation:
I am currently using Microstation to produce electrical drawings. I am making layouts of connections between terminal blocks and components and manually drawing in wires to be connected between the two. The layouts typically consist of terminal blocks, contactors, fuses, circuit breakers, etc. and how the components will be wired.
Question:
Once i create the lines(wires) to connect components is there any way that if i delete the line it will delete the line through out every drawing? Not sure if this is considered a database or .net type question.
Example:
In CAD software you are able to produce parts from drawing. Using an assembly, you can then assemble the entire part you are trying to create. If a part needs to be modified, you can edit the original drawing and the assembly will update with the newly modified part.
thank you,
BMC
Brandon Cuevas said:Once i create the lines(wires) to connect components is there any way that if i delete the line it will delete the line through out every drawing?
Consider using referenced DGN models. Draw wires in one DGN model (in, say, wires.dgn), and reference that model into those DGN models where components are located (say, components1.dgn, components2.dgn...componentsN.dgn).
wires.dgn
components1.dgn
components2.dgn
componentsN.dgn
To place wires, attach the components models to wires.dgn so you can see what components need connecting. When wiring is done, switch to one of those component models. If wires.dgn is referenced into each of those models, then you'll see the current wiring state.
You'll need to flip back and forth between the wiring model and the component models, but that's easy using MicroStation's Activate Reference feature.
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions