We are trying to edit a small portion of an existing corridor by adding a generic daylighting subassembly. The add subassembly tool in the Corridor Section editor works, but we get an error because the new sub doesn't have a target surface specified. Does anyone know how to add a target for a sub that is added after the corridor was created?
Steve
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Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
I've attached a drawing to help clarify the problem. The assembly used here has no daylight on the right side, but there is a detatched subassembly in the drawing. At station 0+25 I have already used the Add Subassembly tool in the Corridor Section editor to add the daylight. I cannot see any way to edit the target parameter however.
Steve
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Steve,
It worked for me. I attached your SA to the assembly and when I went to the corridor properties, chose Target. The right daylight needed to have the target set. Once I did, I rebuilt the corridor and it worked without errors. I saved the dwg file and it's attached.
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
That's not what I'm trying to do here Don. I want to attach a single instance of a daylight sub to one corridor section only. The software will allow me to attach other subs to a corridor but there is a problem with daylights because there doesn't seem to be any way to specify the target.
Steve
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@sboon wrote:That's not what I'm trying to do here Don.
I must admit that I was surprised to think that I was going to be able to help you with something as simple as this (or at least as simple as I thought it was). The things you've assisted with in the past have been much more complex than the task as I understood it.
@sboon wrote:I want to attach a single instance of a daylight sub to one corridor section only. The software will allow me to attach other subs to a corridor but there is a problem with daylights because there doesn't seem to be any way to specify the target.
I'm sorry I guess I'm not understanding that request. What exactly is the end goal (maybe with a sketch)?
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
@sboon wrote:That's not what I'm trying to do here Don. I want to attach a single instance of a daylight sub to one corridor section only. The software will allow me to attach other subs to a corridor but there is a problem with daylights because there doesn't seem to be any way to specify the target.
Steve
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Steve,
I've read and re-read this post a bunch of times. When you say "attach a single instance of a daylight sub to one corridor section only", it sounds like you want to attach the right daylight over a specified station range (region). Won't that require a second assembly along with additional regions?
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
If you open the corridor section editor, and expand the corridor edit tools panel on the Ribbon then you'll see the Add subassembly tool I was trying to use.
The original problem was in a much larger corridor, where we needed to replace the normal daylight subassembly with a copy of DaylightMultiIntercept for a couple of stations. Deleting the existing daylight sub was easy enough, but we were trying to figure out how to replace it. I think the person who was working on it faked in some linework to get the corridor surface looking right, so we are OK for now.
Thanks,
Steve
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...but we were trying to figure out how to replace it...
Implement a Conditional subassembly
@sboon wrote:If you open the corridor section editor,
AHHHHH. That explains my confusion. When you said "a section of corridor", I thought you meant section as in "part of" but you litterally meant cross-section.
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
<chuckle>
Now you know what it's like to be an EE, trying to figure out the questions from other users.
How about creating a new assembly with the subassembly and run in a region for 0.1 ft., 0.05 ft. each side of the cross section in question.
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