How to move contents to a plane that has AutoCAD drawing?

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chao.g asked Aug 30, '16 chao.g commented Aug 30, '16

How to move contents to a plane that has AutoCAD drawing?

I used the plane as the placeholder for Autocad background, and it's 41' off the ground. when I am laying out the objects on that cad background, by default the object's z coordinates will be 0, I have to change them to 41'. But the objects will not be part of the plane. Then I can't turn them on/off together.

Is there a way to move some objects to a plane in this case? In a normal situation, if it's just a plane, you can drag objects into the plane and it will have the container functionality page. But in this case when I am having CAD as the background, it doesn't have the container tab. It doesn't seem to function like a container.

Thanks,

Chao

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FlexSim 16.1.2

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Answer 1 · 2016-08-30T17:45:45Z

Sam Stubbs answered Aug 30, '16 chao.g commented Aug 30, '16

In the model tree view you can shift select the objects you want in the plane (so there is a red highlight around them). Then go to View > Edit Selected Objects, click on the plane (so that it's yellow) and over on the right click the button "Move into Highlighted." That should move all the items you want into the plane.

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chao.g commented · Aug 30, 2016 at 05:53 PM

thanks a lot, this works great, one more question on this, in the model tree view, I have node that has long names and currently, the node tree doesn't expand to see the full view of the node, there is this sign... after certain number of characters, it's not convenient for me to know if I am selecting the right objects, is there a way to expand to full name view for all nodes?

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Phil BoBo ♦♦ chao.g commented · Aug 30, 2016 at 05:56 PM

In Quick Properties for the Tree view, increase the Name Width:

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chao.g Phil BoBo ♦♦ commented · Aug 30, 2016 at 06:13 PM

Easy & nice, thanks!

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Adrian Haws chao.g commented · Aug 30, 2016 at 05:59 PM

@chao.gao There is an option in the tree's quick properties to do this:

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chao.g commented · Aug 30, 2016 at 07:58 PM

it's a related question, so I am trying to layout the objects on this plan that's 41' off the ground, is there a way to change the default Z value to 41', so I don't have to move them later?

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Phil BoBo ♦♦ chao.g commented · Aug 30, 2016 at 09:04 PM

In the View Settings window, you can adjust the Floor Z to change where the floor and grid are drawn so that objects you drag in are created at a different Z position. You can then set it back to 0 to return the grid and floor back to where they were.

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