topic Created custom cabinet object - now TW wont send/recieve? in Teamwork & BIMcloud

Created custom cabinet object - now TW wont send/recieve?

rob2218 — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:10:06 GMT

what gives?
all I did this morning was...create a custom cabinet using walls, slabs, as countertop and cabinet box. then I inserted an AC16 library sink part that has a nice top to it...but now when I grabbed all the parts together and created a "custom object"...AC doesn't allow me syncronize my 'send/recieves'??...what gives?

Re: Created custom cabinet object - now TW wont send/recieve

rob2218 — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:16:27 GMT

here's what the custom cabinet object looks like in 3D.
I think the "stock AC16 vanity top part" is conflicting with something in the library AC16 that it wont let it do a send/recieve.
I'm afraid if I wipe out my TWData file....I wont have this object in the TW file?...any advice...appreciated.

Re: Created custom cabinet object - now TW wont send/recieve

Vitruvius — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:35:48 GMT

Can you just save the custom millwork separately from the AC Vanity Top? If you can, there may be some problem with the AC Vanity Top symbol.

If it's a huge number of installations you could do both symbols together as a module (though that's a bit of a PITA workaround).

Re: Created custom cabinet object - now TW wont send/recieve

rob2218 — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 21:50:44 GMT

yes...guess I could save the custom vanity base and use the AC16 stock vanity top object. I'll simply have to 'group' them and place instances all over the model....if that's the solution.

I'll try a custom cab a forum friend sent......see if I can make that happen...

Re: Created custom cabinet object - now TW wont send/recieve

Vitruvius — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 02:20:01 GMT

It might be easier to make a module rather than group them - that way if you change one instance you can update them all just like a symbol.

Cheers

Re: Created custom cabinet object - now TW wont send/recieve

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:06:26 GMT

Is it possible that your Teamwork Role does not allow you to do the action you intend to?

Re: Created custom cabinet object - now TW wont send/recieve

rob2218 — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:13:10 GMT

hum...this sounds like it could work.
module...we have been using MOD's within the TW file itself. They basically create lowered story setting levels which contain 'unit MOD' hotlinks from within the Teamwork file. No outside apartment unit hotlinks...only internal ones.....right from within the same model file, only a few stories lowered.

I'm wondering, would I need to create a new story setting, create the cabinet and then "bring into the upper stories" that level as an MOD/hotlinked part of data?

would that be the process? I really dont' want to have 'external' MOD files due to speed issues.

Vitruvius wrote:
It might be easier to make a module rather than group them - that way if you change one instance you can update them all just like a symbol.

Cheers