Aussie wrote:EIDM cannot assign ID's in an order that reflects either (1) the order of selection of elements or (2) the spatial placement of elements in model space.
I know you can incrementally increase ID numbers using the Element ID manager but how do you apply it in a specific order?
Someone suggested in another post ( which I cant locate) to select the elements in the order you wish to number but that didnt seem to help.
It has other limitations.
While you can create a filter to select all windows, for example, along with their lib part name, width and height - so that you would group similar windows together with the same ID ... if the width (say) appears early in the list, then the ID's will be assigned with the smallest ID to the largest width, and the largest ID to the smallest width. In other words, the matching windows are sorted in descending order and then the ID's are assigned. There is no way to invert this sort order (ascending) and begin numbering at the narrowest window first. (I actually prefer the latter ordering since the ID number then conveys at least a little info to me: a W2 is narrower than a W5. Sure, I can tell myself that a W5 is narrow than a W2 with the current EIDM, but I don't like mind twisters.
I run EIDM, then go into IS and renumber everything the way I want after EIDM does the grouping.)Sorry for rambling / ranting ...
Karl
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