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Add subassembly to corridor

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sboon
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Add subassembly to corridor

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?

 

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doni49
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C3D CorridorTarget.png



Don Ireland
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Message 3 of 12
sboon
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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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Message 4 of 12
doni49
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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.

 

C3D CorridorTarget2.png



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Message 5 of 12
sboon
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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.

 

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doni49
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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)?



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Message 7 of 12
doni49
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@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
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Message 8 of 12
sboon
in reply to: doni49

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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fcernst
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...but we were trying to figure out how to replace it...

 


Implement a Conditional subassembly



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Message 10 of 12
doni49
in reply to: sboon


@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.



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Message 11 of 12
sboon
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<chuckle>

 

Now you know what it's like to be an EE, trying to figure out the questions from other users. Smiley Happy

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Message 12 of 12
blt
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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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