hello community,
I´m very proud to have managed to:
- create a cell in a dgnlib that reads Item types (area, number of rooms, bathrooms, etc) attached to shapes.
- I´m placing this cell as a label and I´m able to read out these item types in my working files.
so far so good. (it looks like this)
I need help with:-Re associating the label to a shape when association is broken. like I do with any dimension.
- If I decide I want to now show the perimeter of the room. I would change the cell and update the label. In this case the association is also broken. Is there anyway to keep the association or in the worst case scenario re-link it when it breaks?
Thank you very much!
Benedetta,
It would indeed be usefull to update a label as a whole - and not the individual fields.
Apart from that it is not good that you can change individual pieces of text within a label. When people change fields to normal text the links are also broken .... and then you don't know if the information within the label is correct.
Luc Dierick
Luc Dierick said:When people change fields to normal text
why are they doing that, when I try to edit these they are clearly showing a background highlight in the text editor thus indicating they are text fields... maybe these "people" you mention need more cad education and more microstation training not to turn Text fields into text .. they are not the bad old Edit Data Fields but text fields linked to an element's properties..
Maybe use a level name name like "TEXT_FIELD_DON'T_CONVERT_ME_TO_TEXT"
might help ( not exactly company level name standards but needs must)...
Lorys
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In the meantime, is there a better way to update/reassociate labels?
Has the mentioned ER664344 been fixed already?
Hi,
For updating labels you can run de key-in "FIELD UPDATE ALL".
For re-associating you need to modify and reinsert the field, which is pretty inconvenient if you have several labels / Fields.
Hope this helps!