AutoCAD P&ID

[#1]

when using the Convert to PID Object command it does not allowed you to select items do not have a symbol in project manager?

[#2]

Hi,

I think you'll find that you can only select assets which have a GraphicalStyleName property defined.  I suspect that it looks up the default symbol properties from this symbol - it needs to lookup connection type, tag requirements etc from somewhere.

Regards,

Andy

[#3]

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andy.davis wrote:

I think you'll find that you can only select assets which have a GraphicalStyleName property defined.  

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That is a good restating of the Problem.

The question is how to fix or work around said problem.  In most cases if a graphical style already existed, you would not need to convert-to-P&ID-object.  -And creating an empty block for every class seems prohibitively time consuming and difficult.

[#4]

There is no real "fix" for that, because it behaves this way by design. You could create a default block and assign this block to all the "blank" classes.

Not a real solution I know.

Carsten

[#5]

Hi,

I will log a feature request with our developers to give the user the ability to create new class symbols using the "Convert to P&ID Object" command.

At the moment you will need to workaround this limitation by creating a symbol for the class before using the "Convert to P&ID Object" to add a new symbol.

Thanks,

Dan