Dimension Name = Member Name?

For an ASO cube in Essbase, can a member name be the same as the Dimension name? As per my understanding, the hierarchy name in Essbase Studio becomes the dimension name (I understand this can be overwritten in Model Properties). But I also want a member to be exactly the same as the my dimension name. Is this possible using Studio?
The duplicate member support flag causes can error while building the outline. I'm not sure if this is the setting I want to use.

The business reason for doing this is to work around the limitation of not being able to drill-through on Gen1 members (for cubes build via Studio). For 6/14 dimensions most of our users leave the dimension at the highest level (or Gen1). While drilling via EIS worked great, when the cubes are built from Studio, DT is supported only for Gen2 and above members. That's why I wanted to move the hierarchy down one level (or make Gen1 -> Gen2, make Gen2 -> Gen3, etc). Since I don't want to ask my users to change their gazillion spreadsheets, I wanted to keep my Gen1 and Gen2 member names the same, meaning the dimension name and the Gen2 member name would have to be the same....

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user10275812 wrote:
Hi,
Can someone please let me know whether we can have same member name in a dimension for building a cube?
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I have one dimension Dim1 (Hierarchy) ,
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L13 -      L11 -      L1 -      10
L13 -      L11 -      L2 -      11
L13 -      L12 -      L3 -      12
L13 -     L12 -      L4 -      13
L14 -      L11 -      L5 -      14
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