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Bentley Technical Support How to dimension Assemblies and Subgroups Bentley Systems Inc 2010 ProStructures 1 Well have a look at an example of an assembly containing two groups and a subgroup. 1. BG stands for Building Group; all BGs are one assembly; BG1 is Subgroup of BG2; BG3 is mainpart of the assembly. The assembly is displayed by a sphere (one out of three options). 2. Well have a look at the Detail Style Groupsand some specific settings. The Detail Style must be usable for Groups with sub groups”:

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How to dimension Assemblies and Subgroups

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We’ll have a look at an example of an assembly containing two groups and a subgroup.

1. BG stands for “Building Group”; all BG’s are one assembly; BG1 is Subgroup of BG2; BG3 is mainpart of the

assembly. The assembly is displayed by a sphere (one out of three options).

2. We’ll have a look at the Detail Style “Groups” and some specific settings.

The Detail Style must be usable for “Groups with sub groups”:

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3. The dimensioning “For sub groups” must be checked on:

4. “Sub group details” has to be on:

Attention: The subgroup is actually dimensioned separately and can’t be related to the mainpart!!

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Preview of subgroup dimensioning:

5. In order to dimension the mainpart you need to edit “Main Parts/ Total dimension”

…but as you see this can easily lead to collision of the dimensioning of the mainpart and the subgroup!

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6. As a Workaround you might edit distances and Single part dimensions:

…in order to achieve this preview:

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7. Finally you edit the dimensioning of the entire assembly:

Preview of assembly dimensioning: