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Within Apex, Edit Contacts Utility appears not to be working?

elijah.d.lamppin.civ
elijah.d.lamppin.civ over 5 years ago
Referring to the attached photo of my .bdf, it looks like the 2 contacts (denoted with XXXXX_T) don't have an associated BCBDPRP along with a friction coefficient. I made these independent ties, then followed the video guide on using the Edit Contact utility to switch them to touching and input a friction. I know it does something since it renames the ties with _G or _T, but looking through the .bdf it looks like they are all still glued. Am I misunderstanding the .bdf?
 
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  • Darrel Sinclair
    0 Darrel Sinclair over 5 years ago
    Did you export the bdf using the Export Tools utility? That's the only way that the changes made by the Edit Contact utility will appear in the bdf.
    Screen Shot 07-07-21 at 08.19 AM
    Note that you can inspect the changes made by the Edit Contacts tool by looking at the User Attributes for the glue:
    Screen Shot 07-07-21 at 08.22 AM
    
    Screen Shot 07-07-21 at 08.23 AM
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    0 elijah.d.lamppin.civ over 5 years ago
    I think I see the problem...I'm running into a python exception error (attached). Are you familiar with this one by chance?

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    0 Darrel Sinclair over 5 years ago
    Sorry, that may be my fault. The custom tools I sent you a couple of weeks ago were for 2021, but I can see from the error log that you're running 2021.1. There was a change in the Export Utils tool between the two versions. 2021.1 tools attached.

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    0 elijah.d.lamppin.civ over 5 years ago
    Do you know how to remove/clear the utilities before re-adding them? I swapped out the folders but still receive the same error. I'm wondering if they loaded properly.
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  • Darrel Sinclair
    0 Darrel Sinclair over 5 years ago
    Normally just stopping/restarting Apex should be enough. Is it giving the error at the same line number?
     
    File "C:/Users/elijah.lamppin/Documents/MSC_Apex Workspace/Custom Tools 2021.1/Apex Utilities/Utilities/Export/ExportUtils/src\bdfExport.py", line 375, in main
      scenario1.exportFEModel(
     
    If so then it's definitely still using the old code for some reason.
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