Forum Post: RE: mechanical drawing
I believe there are some limitations with symbol replacement, particularly for valves. However, you should be able to use whatever cells you'd like using custom mechanical drawing rules. See if the...
View ArticleForum Post: Printing error in v8 SS5
When PDFing a sheet file in v8 SS5 I get the following error messages: X The document was not printed due to an error X Exception encountered inside [PlotContext.OutputElement] Occurs for every plan...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Printing error in v8 SS5
What is the output Paper Size of the PDF file you want to create?
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Printing error in v8 SS5
What are the specs of the machine that gets this error? OS? Memory? Free disk space? Does it happen on all machines? Does it happen on all Models in all files? What version of ABD are you running? Is...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Door instance data being removed upon edit
We are familiar with this problem with the instance data on doors. If you change the Data Definition or add a data definition to the Catalog Type for Doors. This seems to only be a problem with doors....
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Printing error in v8 SS5
Windows 8.1; 24gb RAM; free disk space on 'c' - 123gb; only happens on this machine no others using the same files; the plot sheets affected reference drawing files which are created from a master 3d...
View ArticleForum Post: AECOSIM-write lock on Master 3D Composition file
We are pretty much following this workflow: We have several „container“ files with drawing models and sheets and a group of people is working on these files separately. When creating new callouts in...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Printing error in v8 SS5
I've just reinstalled SS5 and the GB Dataset. Same result - crashes out at a certain point. Then I tried printing from SS4, and the same result... I also tried using a backed up set of files - same...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Printing error in v8 SS5
We need to get your data in order to look more closely at this as it has not been reported by other users. Please attach a .zip file for analysis.
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Printing error in v8 SS5
We would need the active file and reference file(s) attached to the active file. Also the Parts and Family files used in the Models. Is it a structural model?
View ArticleForum Post: Geometry creation and modification
Please show me I'm wrong, before I abandon ABD and go back to 2D Acad! 296D complete.dgn shows the kind of existing house (dark grey) and 1st Fl (2nd Fl. in American) extension and Loft conversion...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Automate conversion of AECOsim dynamic view Drawing Model to...
use CVE's. once the views are cached the symbolization geometry is saved in the dgn, allowing plain microstation/powerdraft to use these there are scripts for batch cacheing updating etc
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Bentley Architecture (dgn) to Navisworks (nwd)
Ian, the advice I had from Autodesk was that the navisworks dgn import works better than the nwd exporter. They recomended only using the exporter if dgn import was experiencing difficulties. (Much as...
View ArticleForum Post: IFC import not maintaining forms and data
I can open IFC models directly and all elements display as created, ie column is a column, slab is a slab and all properties are maintained. however if I import the ifc, all structural elements get...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Automate conversion of AECOsim dynamic view Drawing Model to...
I have worked this with support but according to them this automatic ability is no longer available. Two things happened. You can no longer automate the selection of files with *.* And the batch...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Geometry creation and modification
Tom I use compound wall for everything. Part of what I had to do was determine the amount of detail that I wanted to perform. I want my building to create the section of 1/2" scale or larger AND The...
View ArticleForum Post: RE: How do you configure a grid system that is not exactly...
But I'd look at it a different way The X and Y are ALWAYS 90 but that does not mean the grids are 0 or 90 Two grids - one at "0" and one at "95"
View ArticleForum Post: RE: unable to merge furniture plan
Warehouse files are OK but are HUGE and complex in nature. They can slow or crash systems easily. Do a test very simply/ Draw a Tire in Ustn then take one from Google Warehouse The Warehouse files can...
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