Ryan Daniels's 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!

Setting a loaded raster to read/write in VBA (Microstation v8.5)

Ryan Daniels — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:55:30 GMT

I'm trying to change the Read/Write status of an attached raster through VBA.

Recording a macro gave me the following code.

SetCExpressionValue "tRMDlgSettings.bOpenReadOnly", 1, "RASTMGR"

This worked to change it back and forth if I used a 1 or 0, but after testing a few times it no longer applies the change.

If I have the attachment settings window open, it will uncheck the box but the apply button is greyed out still. If I click okay after VBA unchecks the box, nothing happens. If I click it myself I can then click apply or ok and it works fine. Any ideas?

I tried to replicate results in Powerdraft but the attachment settings dialog doesn't seem to exist.

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?