[CE14.2] Behaviour of Move to Contact with Accudraw

RE: [CE14.2] Behaviour of Move to Contact with Accudraw

Adam Turner — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:35:48 GMT

Hi Linpu,

I have uploaded the test case using the secure upload facility. Apologies for the delay.

Kind regards,
Adam

RE: [CE14.2] Behaviour of Move to Contact with Accudraw

Adam Turner — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 13:35:21 GMT

Hi David,

I have just uploaded my test case. Apologies for the delay.

Kind regards,

Adam

RE: [CE14.2] Behaviour of Move to Contact with Accudraw

Adam Turner — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 13:52:47 GMT

[quote userid="3356" url="~/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/227585/ce14-2-behaviour-of-move-to-contact-with-accudraw/703701"]Increasing the Solids Working Area from 1 kilometer to 10 kilometers reduced the XY shift slightly but it didn't eliminate it. Through trial and error I kept increasing the Solids Working Area until it was 100000 kilometers and then the XY shift was acceptable ( < .16 feet ) but it wasn't eliminated. This also had a similar effect on positioning of shapes and lines.[/quote]

Hi Ron,

Increasing the Solids Working Area size so that the elements were actually within the Solids Working Area worked perfectly and now it functions as expected. In my case the elements are located at coordinates with values between 1x10^5 and 1x10^6 which might explain why increasing the working area helped?

However it still seems like odd behaviour and I think I would still consider this a bug.

Thanks for your help!

RE: [CE14.2] Behaviour of Move to Contact with Accudraw

Ron Jones — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 18:26:59 GMT

[quote userid="332735" url="~/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/227585/ce14-2-behaviour-of-move-to-contact-with-accudraw/703739"]Can you share the test case for review? If so please use the link below:[/quote]

David,

That link is to the "MicroStation Programming" community. It has nothing to do with sharing a test case.

Can you provide a better link?

Regards,
Ron

RE: [CE14.2] Behaviour of Move to Contact with Accudraw

Linpu Wu — Tue, 29 Mar 2022 02:20:42 GMT

Hi Adam,

We fixed a similar problem recently. Could you please share your test case and we can confirm if it can fix your problem.

Regards,

Katherine

RE: [CE14.2] Behaviour of Move to Contact with Accudraw

David Trejo-Rodriguez — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 23:56:42 GMT

Can you share the test case for review? If so please use the link below:

https://communities.bentley.com/products/programming/microstation_programming/

RE: [CE14.2] Behaviour of Move to Contact with Accudraw

Ron Jones — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 17:01:45 GMT

Hi Adam,

I recently had to move several thousand simple 3D buildings meshes with the Move To Contact tool and discovered a number of odd behaviors with that command. The buildings were basically 3d meshes based on the footprints and heights of actual buildings. No details at all. All of the buildings were at the same elevation and needed to be moved down vertically to touch the ground below them.

Here are my observations and my workarounds:

The buildings were meshes and the command wouldn't move them. Solids, shapes and lines would move but had an unwanted XY shift.
My first workaround:
I converted the meshes to Smart Solids. Now the command would move them but even though I provided a perfectly vertical vector they still had an unwanted XY shift of over 5 feet.
My second workaround:
Increasing the Solids Working Area from 1 kilometer to 10 kilometers reduced the XY shift slightly but it didn't eliminate it. Through trial and error I kept increasing the Solids Working Area until it was 100000 kilometers and then the XY shift was acceptable ( < .16 feet ) but it wasn't eliminated. This also had a similar effect on positioning of shapes and lines.

Even though you are not moving solids my second workaround may help your situation.

There is no reason we should need to change the Solid Working Area to make the command work.

This is needs to get fixed by Bentley because my workarounds are not acceptable.

Regards,
Ron

I'm using MicroStation CONNECT Edition - Version 10.16.02.34