Microstation Connect Update 17 - Material assignment problems

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Hi, 
 
 I've finally started using the connect edition of Microstation and am getting some very odd behaviour with material assignments etc. This is an old model (from V8i) but I have converted all solids to Parametric. 
 Please see the video that I think shows what's happening. MS_Material_issue.mp4 
 
 Open standard palette. 
 Assign a material. 
 Assign a second material - Alter rotation of pattern map - 90 degrees 
 First material disappears even though still assigned - Reassign material 
 Open second palette - assign material 
 Open third Palette - assign material 
 delete assignment - all materials disappear even though assignments are still there? 
 
 Any ideas?? I can attach the dgn if this helps. 
 
 Thanks 
 
 Steve

Jerry Flynn · Accepted Answer

I have the same version, I am not sure what is going on but if you need this file you can create a clean file from 3D Metric Design.dgn reference this file and use a fence to copy it into the new file and then detach the reference. You will then be able to make assignments in the new file. I showed this to Paul Chater and he will try and figure out what's up with your file. 
 BTW the fence copy to a new file has come to the rescue for me many times over the years when I see weird stuff like this that doesn't make any sense. I did see that the geometry is far away from the global origin and I thought that could be it but moving the geometry did not help. I also see the solid working area is very large and this might explain what is happening copying the contents into a new file would fix that. 
 Cheers, 
 Jerry

Microstation Connect Update 17 - Material assignment problems

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