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I have raised this with Bentley already, but feel it is worth a bigger audience.
The Display Rules were never developed to use as a deliverable and more so as a design aid. If you dig into what a display rule/style can offer and use ITEM TYPES to control what is displayed etc, you can add this technology to your design workflows and more important add this to your 2d drawings/sheets ie, you can colour up a building plan with wall types based on their fire rating,so they automatically update based on their ITEM TYPE values. As it currently works we have to manage additional levels and shapes to achieve the same thing, which have to be maintained and syncs across many files.
With the use of ITEM TYPES and a series of Display Rules, we can enhance our workflows in a DGN mode. This is great in our DGN files, but if you need to deliver a DWG file,which 99% of our clients have to do, the display rules are wiped out.
My proposal is to get to make the display rules exchangeable to a DWG file is WYSIWYG
Ian
Hi All,
this seems to be a duplicate of MS-I-154 we will merge the 2 ideas to make it easier to track the suggestion.
Regards,
Marco
Mark Shamoun 10 months ago
Definitely needed - our team regularly have to go into different software platforms like Civil3D and 12d Model to deliver this information to our clients in their required DWG format.
Maybe an enhancement to the Drop tools to "Drop Graphics" or additional functionality in the DWG export tools?
Robert Jones 10 months ago
Agree - There should be an option to enable the baking-in of the effects of Display Rules when exporting to non-DGN formats.
This would be a fundamental step to allowing Display Rules to become THE one-stop-shop for element overrides, and the plethora of other (legacy) override techniques would be redundant. e.g. level overrides/material assignments/Display Styles. (yes - I would make Display Styles a sub set of Display rules)
This would however need a mush more intuitive/flowing dialog/workflow for setting up display rules - perhaps in tandem with element templates to allow for prepackaging settings for an element type in alternative scenarios ( e.g Plan Cut vs Section Cut vs Elevation vs 3D perspective etc.)
Rob