GROUPPRIMITIVES

The GROUPPRIMITIVES command affects how ImPLANT-I.exe groups the Review and Marine primitives. GROUPPRIMITIVES should be switched off if attributes are to be output.

For import to Marine/Design, all the primitives generated will be under a EQUIPMENT element. Normally, all DGN entities are grouped under the same EQUI. However, when a CELL is encountered in the DGN file, a new EQUI is generated. When the import of the CELL is complete, the elements that follow in the DGN file are grouped below another new EQUI, and so on. To generate a separate equipment for each primitive, you can use the GROUPPRIMITIVES OFF command.

You may alternatively supply a maximum number of primitives to group under an equipment. Under normal conditions hundreds of primitives per equipment will give acceptable performance, but thousands of primitives per equipment may not. This does however depend on the precise geometry involved.

>-- GROUPPrimitives --+-- ON ---.

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|-- OFF --+

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‘-- int --+-->