topic Substituting 100s of objects wt various rotation? in Modeling

Substituting 100s of objects wt various rotation?

Mats_Knutsson — Tue, 23 May 2023 14:18:50 GMT

Hi,
I've got a large main model and eight module files with interior objects from IFC. I want to substitute some of the objects with more nice looking ones from the AC lib or my own cleaned up objects made directly from the ifc-objects. When I select all instances of a chair...they are in many directions and my "substitute" only comes in in it's original one direction and I need to move and mirror a lot. Is there a way to avoid this? It's a 40000 m2 hostpital so loads of objects....
Mats

Re: Substituting 100s of objects wt various rotation?

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:05:06 GMT

You can keep the rotation when you have the existing objects selected and use the ctrl + alt + click on the new object in the tool settings. The problem is that it also transfers dimensions so if the new object got other dimensions you might want to open up the existing object and change it's parameters so that the dimensions are not transferable.

Re: Substituting 100s of objects wt various rotation?

Eduardo Rolon — Mon, 28 Mar 2016 18:24:06 GMT

I would try to create a schedule were the parameters are:
1. Object Name
2. Object Rotation
and check Merge Uniform items
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Hopefully this will let you select all the items with the same rotation and substitute them to match