I wanted to create a new property (text field) for my drainage conduits that I could use for annotation. The method that Bentley is pushing is the use of Item Types, rather than UDXs. This does make annotation of drainage elements in reference files easier. However, there were a lot of problems with using Item Types with drainage, even through 2021 R1. But, we were told that these problems had been resolved with 2022 R1. Unfortunately, no. Turns out that text favorites will not read the item type values for drainage conduits. I submitted an SR and Bentley confirmed it's a bug. I would think such a basic function like that would have been caught by even a limited testing/QC effort, especially considering the long troubled history of annotation of drainage over the years.
Some day, we will be making regular trips to visit people working on Mars. And ORD will still be having problems annotating drainage.
Thank you for your patience with my rant.
Karl:
Perhaps we should send our findings to one Mr. Musk? Certainly, his team can get this situation sorted out! I am suggesting this as an answer.
Mark
I have unfortunately the same experience.When you set items manually, it works. When the Item exists as Feature Definition Item, property is not readable.
Karl Dauber, PEAdvance ConsultingLaurens County, SCkarldauber@advconsult.netwww.advconsult.netwww.linkedin.com/in/karldauber
Yours is certainly a good question, and Bentley- in the profile section- certainly gave us something which no one actually desired. The easiest manner in which to answer this question would be to take a look at the default DU dgnlib and see what Bentley did there. As it turns out, there is still a profile feature symbology here, but without any data- element templates- assigned to it other than the 3D area (of course). This allows any annotation specified by the symbology to be implemented while allowing one to assign an element template in situ directly to the FD.
I figured this out when I upgraded my 2021R2 dgnlib and realized that the upgrade kept the assigned profile symbology name, but deleted the default element template assigned to it. At first, I thought that the file was upgraded incorrectly before truly thinking over the matter and realizing that it was actually the only manner in which to do this.
We do not show the center feature symbology in our plan views, but rather the inside walls of the pipes/ structures. You will notice that the Center Feature Symbology is assigned, but again there is nothing dealing with a plan view (default template) which will graphically appear.
See the attached pictures for- a hopefully- better clarification.
Best Regards,
My apologies to the forum. I did not intend to post this to this original post - it's obviously a different topic.