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Status Needs review
Categories General
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 7, 2024

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Add option to display full path of attached cell

Once a cell has been placed in a file, it is impossible to know where the cell came from. It would be good to have an option to display path for its cell library.

In some of my clients they have many cell libraries ranging across either organization or projects. Not knowing where the cell came from is a huge issue.

This would be useful when we need to edit or replace the cell.

As a workaround, I have bene using the add link option to each cell but this is time consuming and not everyone does it.

Ian Lapper

  • Guest
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    |     Aug 16, 2024
    I wonder if the new python api can help. Instead of saving the full path in each cell or adding an item type, a python script could save the cell name and full path to a table that is saved in the dgn or model. Python script could be loaded on start up, and macro recorder used to trigger the script when the user places a cell.
  • Guest
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    |     Aug 12, 2024

    Would not be backwards implemented but for future versions could add item with cell library name. Unfortunately any custom tools may still place cells without such attribute.