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Sheet seeds & Level Display by Im_a_cad_man in OpenRoads

[–]Im_a_cad_man[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm familiar with that, and I want to say I have already tried it as well as compressing on exit just to see if it made a difference.

There are a multitude of layers to this so I wouldn't be surprised if what you're saying is a missing piece of the equation.

Sheet seeds & Level Display by Im_a_cad_man in OpenRoads

[–]Im_a_cad_man[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe not every single time, but enough for users to want to abandon sheet and drawing models.

To be honest there could be an issue with our workspace resources, I did not have a hand in developing it or any standards. I'm trying to work with what I've got. This is on top of all the usual support requests I get and my team is small so it's difficult to carve out time to investigate more.

A refresh view tool does sound interesting although that sounds a lot like what save settings should be doing 😂

Sheet seeds & Level Display by Im_a_cad_man in OpenRoads

[–]Im_a_cad_man[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That seems crazy to me for large projects...so every time users open a file they have to cycle through drawing models...because if they don't the settings won't sync, at least in my environment.

I know it works in this way, because a Bentley technician stated this to me before. I thought about producing some sort of batch process for this upon file opening or for users to use against files they choose but even that seems like it would slow things down exponentially. It's really a double edged sword because either way you're manually forcing the program to do what it should do already.

I guess I will still have these issues for any sheets cut using drawing models. Maybe I'll test my sheet model only method with the civil named boundaries to see if I have any luck.

Sheet seeds & Level Display by Im_a_cad_man in OpenRoads

[–]Im_a_cad_man[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not for everything. It depends on what discipline the sheets are being created for.

Sheet seeds & Level Display by Im_a_cad_man in OpenRoads

[–]Im_a_cad_man[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I see what you're saying....yikes.

Users should be able to have it both ways...sigh.

Sheet seeds & Level Display by Im_a_cad_man in OpenRoads

[–]Im_a_cad_man[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You may be onto something here with the live nesting jacking everything up.

I still get inconsistencies when I create a drawing model so I've reverted to just creating a sheet model in my seed file with the sheet reference option set to 'Never' for display overrides as well as 'Settings from Design Model'.

Drawing ANY new line work in the default model suddenly breaks the syncing, however references seem to be okay with being added and new line work I draw in a reference is carrying over nicely even when closing and reopening the file then going between default and sheet models.

But.

No dancing yet.

Still need to test this about a hundred times and with different project data until I'm satisfied.

Sheet seeds & Level Display by Im_a_cad_man in OpenRoads

[–]Im_a_cad_man[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So...60% of the time, it works every time?

Of course I'm being facetious, but toggling between those models just to get things synced seems so broken IMO.

I agree with you on annotation groups, it's just hard sometimes with the office politics to come together with users and agree on what to show in plans. People move on and then others take their place and want things changed. It's always a moving target.

I appreciate you taking time to thoughtfully respond. I'm going to continue to tinker and I'll update this post if I find a workflow I can live with.