"Titleblock Integration" is one of the many features that ProjectWise has to offer. In short, it allows ProjectWise standard and custom attributes to be in sync with design file's titleblock information (represented by Microstation tag elements or AutoCAD's attributes). Users update ProjectWise attributes using ProjectWise Explorer interface will automatically be updated in the design file titleblock and vice versa.
Please note: Discussion mentioned in this blog is only applicable to MicroStation design files.
It is not uncommon to have a MicroStation drawing to reference multiple reference files; there are times when a drawing could be referencing 30 or 40 other drawings. If the drawings including reference files have titleblock information resided in the file, it could take a while for the drawing to be opened since ProjectWise will need to scan through each file including all reference files to update all titleblock information.
To improve the performance for opening the main drawing and updating titleblock information in the reference files are not required at the time, you may find enabling the following variable will help.
The following variable can be found in a file called mcm.cfg. This file is resided on user's machine ProjectWise installation directory (Drive:\program files\bentley\projectwise\bin)
PW_TITLEBLOCKS_SKIP_TAGS_IN_REFERENCES=1
After this variable is enabled, titleblock information in the main drawing will be updated and the titleblock resided in reference files will be skipped.
Other variables also resided in mcm.cfg file (such as PW_TITLEBLOCKS_ENABLE_PRESCANNING, PW_TITLEBLOCKS_NO_UPDATE_ON_REFRELOAD) could be enabled to aid speed up file open operations. JP
Can the variables
and
PW_TITLEBLOCKS_ENABLE_PRESCANNING,
PW_TITLEBLOCKS_NO_UPDATE_ON_REFRELOAD
be added to a configuration block in the "Workspace Profiles" under Managed workspaces, say at site level.
Will the original variable in the mcm.cfg file be overwritten with the new value.
I want to try and avoid having to edit every mcm.cfg file on every machine.
I was experimenting with the following projectwise variable
#---The below lines were added to disable ProjectWise Integration
#---when Microstation V8 is launched from the desktop
%if !defined (_PWEXPLORER)
PW_DISABLE_INTEGRATION = 1
%endif
I added these lines to our standards.cfg file on our local server to prevent projectwise integration with a desktop launch of bentley structural and it worked fine.
Will the same rules apply?