3D PDF from ABD - levels

I'm having some problems when creating 3d pdfs. Some of the elements apear in different levels on the pdf from the original ones in ABD. I'm attaching a sample with the original dgn and the resulting pdf.

Help please

3DPDF.dgn

  • Unfortunately I have not been able to duplicate your issue with the .dgn supplied. The 3DPDF.dgn file has just two levels and your .pdf has three. Attached is my generated .pdf file. When I turn off the levels in the .pdf file I generated, the appropriate geometry turns off as it does in the .dgn file

  • Hi Ed. Did you use AECOsim to create the pdf or just plain microstation? If I use MS the levels are correct, just as in your pdf. The problem comes when I use AECOsim (where the dgn was created).

    My pdf does have 3 levels, but it's not supposed to. If you notice, two of them have the same name and the geometry in one of them it's completely wrong - it should be in the 3rd level that it's different.
  • Thanks for the reply. Having the AECOsim colleagues take a look at your file and issue. They will be giving an update.

  • Pedro Serra,
    What I see in AECOsim Building Designer is that the slabs which are behaving differently were placed as Architecture discipline elements. All others are Structural discipline elements. If you make them all the same, they should behave the same.

    Apparently, the Print Engine interprets them differently, although they are on the same levels.

    Please let me know your thoughts.
    Thank-you,
    Larry

  • Hi Larry,

    I didn't notice that but it's possible there was some inconsistency when placing the slabs. What I've noticed is that, the slabs in the wrong level had a bolean operation of subtraction with the columns. And coincidentally (or not) when creating the pdf they end up in the columns level.

    Anyway, regardless of the discipline or any bolean operation, shouldn't they just stay in the level that they exist in the dgn? Is there ant configuration when creating the pdf that controls this behavior?

    Thanks.