All in all finding the Floor Plan creation tools very tricky to use – although clearly being able to choose a set of floors from the Floor Manager data is potentially cool…
Drawingseed.dgnlib functions as a set of template saved views, in turn used to generate model templates, which are used as templates for the create plan tools – Create Plan View and Place Plan Callout.
I am completely unsure how this automation can be useful for these tools or from a Saved Views perspective (aside from view settings) since it is also based on the location in space of the library’s saved views and clearly this will vary from project to project… Is it assumed that the Design Model is approximately located where the templates are?
When you activate any of the Create Plan tools, you get to choose a Drawing Seed – this is actually a misnomer since it scans and returns the Saved Views in DrawingSeed_Architectural.dgnlib and DrawingSeed_General.dgnlib– not sure how it narrows the search but assume it must be keyed in the tool/config somewhere…
As an example I am trying to use “from Drawing Template” option in the View Range of the Floor Plan creation toll, and although I specify the Arch floor plan seed, I end up with forward plane higher than the back plane thus creating a ceiling plan, miles away from my project elements since the templates are located on or near the 0,0,0…
What is the thinking/purpose behind this setup and in which application config file is this coded?
I am also unclear about the following:
1 – The location and name of this library file is determined by ATF_DRAWINGSEED_DGNLIBLIST, in my case this is currently pointing to the dgnlib folder in my current Dataset_GB .
Can/Should this be redirected to a Company directory for instance and then edited? What are the steps for this to work? (Models – Saved Views corresponding names – Borders referenced, etc etc etc) since the current models/views out of the box are limited (no allowance for sheet sizes etc)...
I am also getting weird scales in the sheet models within a metric environment (Dataset_GB), are they just leftovers of cut/paste actions?
2 – Within the Create Plan tools, Create Drawing and Create sheet are linked – can’t have sheet without drawing… I assume then these tools are essentially intended to create an initial bunch of drawings/saved views and then fall back on the workflow “manually create sheet model and/or reference views into sheet etc” ?… or create plans using the Clip Volume tools…
Then you have MS_SHEETMODELSEED, MS_SHEETMODELSEEDNAME, MS_DRAWINGMODELSEED and MS_DRAWINGMODELSEEDNAME which seem to have no relation whatsoever with the DV template... Must be me getting confused.