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Update footprint of Library Object

Kaiii3

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Hi,

I would like to suggest a similar feature to the "Get Footprint" from a model, for the Library Objects. Currently the footprint is not updated if you delete the object from the LOM and add it again with some different contours.

For example:

I work at the moment on NZAA and created the terminals via SketchUp and added them to a .bgl. Loaded it into ADE'S LOM and placed the them in the project. Now I remodeled some parts of it and replaced(same GUID) them in the .bgl, deleted it from LOM and added them again. But I still have the old footprint.
 
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Kai,
I had a similar issue, i think i clicked on either ADE/Lists/Models/Get Footprints
or ADE/Settings/Options and i unticked "Get Detailed Footprints" and ticked it again
one of those worked for me, cant remember which one, not sure if that will be any help to you...............
 
scruffyduck

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I will try and look at this. Footprints are keyed by GUID and I think (it has been a while since I looked) that if the GUID is present in the footprint database then it will not be updated. In part this is to stop problems with re-writing stock object footprints and slowing performance down. I see this is related to objects in libraries rather than models loaded directly into ADE. I think probably that the user would need to force ADE to regenerate a footprint if they change an object and that would need a few changes
 
Kaiii3

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Hey Jon,

maybe it could be possible to remove a footprint for a specific GUID from the database via the LOM and then add the library bgl again into the LOM.
 
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Kaiii3 said:
Hey Jon,

maybe it could be possible to remove a footprint for a specific GUID from the database via the LOM and then add the library bgl again into the LOM.
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Could be - I am looking at the best way to do it. It may be easiest to select a footprint in the display and tell ADE to force an update if it can. This will probably mean reading the whole library in any case.
 
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