The other day, a member of the team requested for a unique representation of object that has been gone through ECC. At that time I decided it simply to use a feature that actually lies in connections that allow connection repersentation to be edited thorugh property manipulation. To do this the RI tab from pipe/connections are moved to a higher hierachy, hence affecting all the other object. To my amazement it does work as expected. The color of every object now can be manipulated through it’s property. A simple script has been witten to get all the object that has gone through ECC and all these item turned brown. Later it will be implemented onto the ecc object themselves so that this will be automated.
This is very much a simpler approcah to revisioning, Comos does have it’s own internal revisioning engine, the only problem is that once it is turned on there will be limited control on the actual revisioning as it will be automated, all the little changes will be marked. The way these item are marked are less than favourable, no control over it. In the end if this feature is turned on the resulting document will look messy.
To me with our methodology on ECC, it was best to use the input from ECC to actually shoe these changes. It does work, now edited/ECCed item are colored brown an are clearly visible in each drawing.
But last week realised that the property seems to effect the whole graphical representation of each object in each drawing. So now everything is black, line thickness are fixed to 0.35. The worst part is that this happens as these documents are opened and saved. Since the it was like 3 weeks since I implement this. Most of the drawings now are pitch black. Seems like removing the proprerty from the base object doesn’t change anything.
With this grave error I now realize what the first part of the gemotry function in the crp files error are refering to; the locally edited symbol, while the second one (used for svg) is the actual displayed item. The error seems to place the original symbol into the locally edited geometry function and placed a blackened, 0.35 thick symbols into the displayed area. To remedy things every symbol affected (which is all of them) has to be reset to default.
Damn!!
