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@sh-yang can you please share log files? You can find log files under the installation folder. (For ex: Application/<Solibri Installation folder>/log).

Taking the reply from @Gerco as an occassion to to share some experience.

We are aiming at a live experience. When we publish new ito,s classifications etc we would like them to be available to all users instantly.

Being able to use relative paths or are sharepoint location in the resource root path would already save a lot. Maybe one of the @Solibrians can shed some light on relative paths?

Totally agree users need to understand when to use a new company standard or use the ones already available on the current project. It’s part of our company training but to make sure our company standards are “hufterproof” they are on a read-only location. Just to be save. Project specific changes of our standards are saved to the project folders.

This is basically the use case for most organisations I guess and from my experience a dedicated server location which is accessible for all but at the same only writteable for few works best - but it also requires the infrastructure and is less flexible.

Recently working with a shared OneDrive/Sharepoint location leaves behind some mixed feelings as syncing in the background to keep users up to date is somehow not always working as expected.

Actually if new files are getting deployed to the shared location and even sync settings for this location are set to “Keep always available” it seems like that this is causing issues as Solibri often throws the usual file reading error before all the ressources could be loaded.

Not sure why this is happening, but if it does it is pretty annyoing as then I have to either force close or dismiss tons of warnings to proceed.

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And then there is the “hufterproof” point, which is something where a seperation of test, developement and productive environments for ressources gets more complicated as it should be causing the need for third party services to reduce time for administration.

So to sum it up, still have not found a best practice workflow which satisfies the needs and is easy at use at the same time but probably there are already better ways to achieve what’s needed but I just don’t know enough about deployment.

@Lole-Flodqvist Oops… 😬

Digging out this topic again as I wonder what was the outocme of …

@lasse-lindqvist said

The more special characters we have, the more likely it is users need to match something that contains those extra characters. Backslash is often used as the escape operator. \ would match one backslash, ! would match one exclamation mark etc. Does this syntax sound good?

@JSN said

You mean if "\" would be added as an additional escape operator "\!" would be "!" and "\\" then "\" ?

@lasse-lindqvist said in Wildcard for excluding:

Yes, exactly like that.

As I have actually exactly this case again where all the doors which are not containing ND as FireRating value should be classified as FireDoors

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Moreover I have to use multiple classification values as FireDoors are also classified as normal Doors. Due to that I would need the previously discussed excluding wildcard functionality as otherwise I would need either to specify all FIreRatings as condition (which might be an option in this case, but excluding would be way more robust and elegant) or make use of an additional classification (which would rise complexity and make it more complicated than it has to be).

So, any pleans of introducing a new wildcard option for excluding anytime soon?

@Pasi-Paasiala Thanks for your explanation on the reasoning behind.

However, it’s quite misleading and not intuitive. I wouldn’t have doubted the intersection volume if I was not doing some testing. The figure obviously differs from that in the description of the rule result, even though they both seem to refer to the same thing “volume of the intersections / intersection volume”.

Highly suggest the intersection volume in the report should not be halved.🤔

Hi J_D, from what I understand, this is information that is automatically exported from the authoring software. Check in the COBie settings, in the “Created By/On” tab.

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If not, check the route of your IFC to integrate this information

COBie.Component->CreatedBy—> IfcTelecomAddress.ElectronicMailAddresses

This is a very annoying problem. I hope for a bug fix asap 🙂

Several of our customers are experiencing weird crashes and slow models when viewing on Apple Silicon devices.

Please Solibri, can we have a universal or at least a version specifically for ARM?

Yes, system most applies to installation objects, so that seems like a strange requirement.

Are you sure the information shall be applied as the relation between the object and the IfcSystem or shall it be applied as a parameter i a specific propertyset? In the latter case you can for example use worksets i Revit for these “building systems” and export as the property System in a the specific propertyset.

Can you share the requirement document or is it not for public use?

@Matti-Kannala said in [bug?] ITO not displaying window components correctly when I do a take off:

@Ricardo

After calculation the ITO is visualizing all rows. It seems like 1st time some of the rows are not visualized. We can investigate this.

Would it be helpfull if I share some of these models with you where this has happened?

@leopu Everything you mentioned can slow down a classification. Also very important is what kind of data the classification operates on. For example, if the classification uses computed quantities, then those can take quite a while to compute, and will need to be recomputed every time a model is updated.

Hi Cris.

update (quoting from my architect)
‘If I uninstall/uninstall the IFC exporter from Autodesk for Revit, and then make an IFC export it’s back to normal….’

@Alex-J Correct.

Pasi

Out ICT department fixed the problem. They deleted something in the windows register and now it works again.

Hi. You need to be more specific. What exactly do you want to filter with the rule, and how specifically does it not work?

@JSN BIMcollab. Do you use another one which is faster?

Super important already and will be even more so. We do the co2 quantities in Archicad directly, not the smoothest way and hard to compare and test alternatives.