Drawing Models and a copies of the Profile Model reference

RE: Drawing Models and a copies of the Profile Model reference

Chris Snyder — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 22:59:35 GMT

Hi Shawn. So far, your approach is the only workflow that we have also come up with as well. We're just referencing the Drawing Model into itself, which we can then copy, merge, etc. as needed.

For now, this will work until I hear back from the Bentley folks.

Thanks

RE: Drawing Models and a copies of the Profile Model reference

Shawn Cooke — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 20:50:51 GMT

Generate multiple smaller profile named boundaries and one overall for the original profile. Just reference that overall (drawing model) into your smaller versions drawing model. This may allow you to break things out as you need, yet still have things associated back to the original.

RE: Drawing Models and a copies of the Profile Model reference

Chris Snyder — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 15:38:10 GMT

Long story, but my team is the designer and constructor, which means we do the final design, temporary, phasing, staging, and construction support designs. In many cases, we need to take the final designs and break them down to buildable segments for staged work according to our P6 construction schedules and field crews needs.

Having the complete profile design in a single profile is great for client review and approval, but being able to take a final road, utility, or drainage profile, and then split it apart for staged work is very typical in our business. Being able to merge a profile's cached graphics into a Drawing Model for quick edits for the field crew, while also still having the original civil profile reference file would be a huge help.

In a perfect world, we would design and model knowing all of the stages and phases for the permanent work, but construction support work is too fluid for this approach.

Hope the background info helps,

RE: Drawing Models and a copies of the Profile Model reference

Mark Shamoun — Sat, 03 Sep 2022 04:47:58 GMT

Hi Chris,

Silly question but why do you want to merge the cached graphics?