'uniqueness' of a dc
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Does anyone have a clear idea of how the uniqueness of a DC works?
I keep getting very confused. Sometimes making one kind of a change to one DC will affect its 'sisters' sometimes it wont. For example the formulae controlling material weirdly seems to be less unique than the formulae controlling position but i'm not really sure in what way.
So far I think that :
any instance of a DC in a model is basically unique, if you edit one you will have to replace it everywhere and re-enter is unique attribute values? - there is no way to edit the 'mother' DC ?
But for example if you have copies of a DC inside another DC you can edit them all togethor (their attributes at least) as long as you do it from the level above i.e. having selected the containing DC. I think this only applies to DCs multiplied by the copies attribute and not manually duplicated? If you go into the component and edit one it will only apply to one of the copies.So I seem to spend a lot of time replacing my copies attributes with 0s then entering into the stack until the level above the component whose attributes I want to change then coming back and replacing my copies attributes as I go. It would help no end if you could see all the way into a DC stack from the top in the component attributes window.
I guess if i was a coder and not a visual sketcher type this might all seem straightforward? but i don't quite get it.
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It sounds like you are on the right track. I have run into this before too, and unfortunatley, there isn't a workaround right now for it.
I have a component that I use a lot for drawing kitchens, its a dynamic door. You can stretch and shape my door to any size cabinet you want. Naturally, when drawing a kitchen, I have tons of copies of the door all over my kitchen, in tons of different sizes. If I want to change an attribute of the door, say the material, one would think that I would be able to highlight all the doors in the room, and just change that attribute, and ONLY that attribute will change on all the highlight doors. This is NOT the case, as you have discovered. If you highlight all the doors, and you change the attribute on ONE of the highlighted doors, all the other highlighted doors inherit the attributes of the one your editing.
Basically, this is a real pain for me, as all my doors need to be re sized again.
So, you aren't doing anything wrong, you've just run into a limitation of DC's. I would like DC's to be controlled by "mother" attributes as well....
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It would definitely have to be a setting to determine which settings affect all similar DC's and which only affect the selected one.
I generally prefer it to work where if I change a setting, it does not change the other DC's.
Chris
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Me too, however, if I highlight several DC's that have the same attribute, I would like when I change that attribute that they all change on each highlighted DC, without inheriting all the other attributes...
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@unknownuser said:
Me too, however, if I highlight several DC's that have the same attribute, I would like when I change that attribute that they all change on each highlighted DC, without inheriting all the other attributes...
more than a year late. but yes, please implement this feature!
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