topic Re: ELEMENT ID MANAGER in Collaboration with other software

ELEMENT ID MANAGER

rengarch — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:29:08 GMT

I am working on version 12 and the Element ID Manager is misbehaving. For example, I have selected all the interior doors to have the ID manager number them automatically. Some of the same libarary doors aren't editable and the Element ID does not change. I also tried the windows. I have been using the NCS 12 Doors and Windows marker.
See attached screenshot. 4 doors are selected and only 3 are configurable. When I click OK, none of the door labels change. Any thoughts?

thanks.

Re: ELEMENT ID MANAGER

Anonymous — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:03:57 GMT

Hi Rita,
Apparently we are the only architects who like to number their windows and doors sequentially in a logical manner. I have complained to Tech Support and have a case number and I have waited. 3 maybe 4 updates and no fixes. Actually, it will work if you just select all doors or windows at once, but you will have to live with a random order.

I have numbered my windows and doors with the ELEMENT ID MANAGER since, I don't know, AC7, and now ACv12 can no longer perform the function? Apparently know one seems to care. Your the 1st I have seen who has noticed that it doesn't work the way it was originally designed.
There must of been a lot of rewriting of code between v11 and v12.

Hope your doing Ok Rita,

Regards,

Doug G.

Re: ELEMENT ID MANAGER

Chazz — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:32:27 GMT

The problem is the selection of the elements. If you don't select, it seems to work......

It does seem that the behavior/functionality has degraded. Our solution, which is not much of a solution at all, is to isolate elements via layer and turn off all but the stuff we need to manage. This is easy with objects, etc, very difficult for doors and windows.

For doors and windows I just change the ID manually. This is pretty unacceptable.

Re: ELEMENT ID MANAGER

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:37:25 GMT

How about this work around, save as AC11 and then ID manage. Kind of stupid unless you have a lot windows and doors, but kind of shows the stupidity of the problem.