patricks
2010-06-03, 02:03 PM
In the past, if you have a ceiling object that was automatically placed in a space with more than 4 walls (more than 4 edges to the ceiling sketch), and then you moved walls such that one of those ceiling edges went away (like when aligning walls), you got an error saying the ceiling sketch was invalid, elements would be deleted, and unless you canceled out of the operation, the ceiling was zapped.
Well now it appears that has been improved in 2011, where it will just automatically remove the offending sketch lines that go away when aligning walls. You'll still get a warning message about the sketch line getting deleted, or that it can't keep objects joined or whatever, but it will still keep the ceiling object in place.
This is even better if lights and other ceiling-hosted objects have been placed in that ceiling. Before I would have to edit the ceiling sketch to get the sketch lines off of the walls, before actually doing any wall moving, to avoid having the ceiling AND all the lights disappear.
Hoorah - should save us lots of time during SD's and DD's when things are still shifting around, etc. :)
Well now it appears that has been improved in 2011, where it will just automatically remove the offending sketch lines that go away when aligning walls. You'll still get a warning message about the sketch line getting deleted, or that it can't keep objects joined or whatever, but it will still keep the ceiling object in place.
This is even better if lights and other ceiling-hosted objects have been placed in that ceiling. Before I would have to edit the ceiling sketch to get the sketch lines off of the walls, before actually doing any wall moving, to avoid having the ceiling AND all the lights disappear.
Hoorah - should save us lots of time during SD's and DD's when things are still shifting around, etc. :)