Ryan Daniels's Communities Activities

Plotting an element twice?

Ryan Daniels — Thu, 18 May 2017 15:04:34 GMT

When we plot yellow elements, we need to print it in black first and then yellow so that there's a yellow highlight, but it's still legible. We do this with shapes and text.

To do this today, we add a reference of our dgn and the plotting rules will only look at yellow elements to give us our two different rules for one shape.

Is there a better way to do this? If we didn't have to add the reference we could plot in 1/3 the time, which is significant when we have hundreds of drawings that need to be plotted.

I'm open to any ideas!

Microstation PowerDraft v8i command window

Ryan Daniels — Tue, 14 Jun 2016 18:07:55 GMT

Microstation won't use the command window style key-in unless I select the user config every time the program is opened. (The user it should be loading has MS_USECOMMANDWINDOW = 1)

Also, is it possible to display grid dots instead of lines?

Microstation PowerDraft v8i Grid dots

Ryan Daniels — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 15:31:58 GMT

Is it possible to show grid dots instead of lines in Microstation PowerDraft v8i? I've heard that the grid shows dots in a 2d drawing and lines in 3d and it is also my understanding that PowerDraft has no 3d capabilities.

Is there a setting to change the grid display back to bold dots?