Hi community,
In order to solve my problem I've been trying to look a bit deeper in why the bathtub or any object mostly referring to a .cel weren't entirely associative and how I could change that, and mostly it raised new (but more precise) questions :
Would adding an axis line make the bathtub (or my valves in my case) totally associative ? I've been trying to add a style 4 line in the "raw", -3d and CONN models of the .cel thinking it would appear like that and would be understood by AECOsim as an axis line but it comes out as a plain line when I use the "place bathtub" tool and doesn't change anything for my connection problem, so is there a way to create a real axis line for my object ?
I tried to look in the vba of BathTub in order to find what made it partially associative, how it was made partially associative, or how it was added to a "plumbing group" formed by pipes, tees, flanges, etc when they are connected together. I also looked in the vba of objects like Flanges to find how they were made totally associative, but in both case I couldn't find anything. (I accessed the vba through utilitaries -> Macro -> Visual Basic Editor and read BMP_Fixtures -> Class Modules -> clsBathTub and BMP_Valves_Flanges -> Class Modules -> ClsFlangeSlipOn which appear when you have already used them once during your AECOsim session.)
Thus, my questions currently are : how is an object added to a "plumbing group" ? Is there a simple command to do it and is it possible to use it on furnitures refering to .cel ? Where is stored the code which makes an object associative or partially associative ?
Thank you for your attention,
Kind regards,
Olivier Laprévote
In order to solve my problem I've been trying to look a bit deeper in why the bathtub or any object mostly referring to a .cel weren't entirely associative and how I could change that, and mostly it raised new (but more precise) questions :
Would adding an axis line make the bathtub (or my valves in my case) totally associative ? I've been trying to add a style 4 line in the "raw", -3d and CONN models of the .cel thinking it would appear like that and would be understood by AECOsim as an axis line but it comes out as a plain line when I use the "place bathtub" tool and doesn't change anything for my connection problem, so is there a way to create a real axis line for my object ?
I tried to look in the vba of BathTub in order to find what made it partially associative, how it was made partially associative, or how it was added to a "plumbing group" formed by pipes, tees, flanges, etc when they are connected together. I also looked in the vba of objects like Flanges to find how they were made totally associative, but in both case I couldn't find anything. (I accessed the vba through utilitaries -> Macro -> Visual Basic Editor and read BMP_Fixtures -> Class Modules -> clsBathTub and BMP_Valves_Flanges -> Class Modules -> ClsFlangeSlipOn which appear when you have already used them once during your AECOsim session.)
Thus, my questions currently are : how is an object added to a "plumbing group" ? Is there a simple command to do it and is it possible to use it on furnitures refering to .cel ? Where is stored the code which makes an object associative or partially associative ?
Thank you for your attention,
Kind regards,
Olivier Laprévote