Pset Identification -> Material -> Change separator character

[Xavier]

Hi All,

In Solibri, the parameter Pset Identification -> Material is really super useful, because in only one parameter there is all the materials of an element, concatenaded using coma character ( “,” ). This parameter is specific of Solibri.

Usually, we analyse materials of elements using this parameter, splitting this parameter with the coma character.

But in some projects, the modeler teams write material name with characters, like coma ( “,”), etc… And the problem become impossible to work.

Then, is it possible to configure solibri, in order to change the separator character in Material parameter?

I upload an image, in order to explain it.

Best regards,
Xavier Coll
EiPM

[lasse.lindqvist]

Hi. I see how this is a real issue when combined with zero widths not being printed (https://society.solibri.com/topic/476/pset-identification-material-material-with-thickness-0). I guess starting to write “0.0 m” would help this as well.
I doubt we would allow customizing the separator from settings, so I hope having the "0.0 m"s would be enough. If we did customize, I guess it would be a free choice of using any possible character(s) as the separator.

[Xavier]

Hi Lasse,

Thanks for your fast answer! I’m agree with you that to insert 0.0 m maybe will be enought, in order to have a more processable database.

But we think, that the problem is a little bit more complex… In some countries, the numbers have a coma ( “,”) to indicate decimals (not a point). For example, in this screenshot, we show Solibri configured for this countries: It’s a little bit madness to interpret…

Best regards,
Xavier Coll
EiPM

[lasse.lindqvist]

Yes. The true root cause of course is that never should one need to parse separate values from text. We do support getting the materials from a component programmatically in our Java API (https://solibri.github.io/Developer-Platform/9.10.4/javadoc/com/solibri/smc/api/model/Component.html#getMaterials--) but until now there hasn’t been an easy way to use this to export the data for post-processing and analysis (only to use it in custom rule logic). Soon I hope it is (Solibri Society 2020).