How to find out what is stored in a DGNlib

RE: How to find out what is stored in a DGNlib

PH — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:49:29 GMT

Aha, that way.

RE: How to find out what is stored in a DGNlib

John Frampton — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:48:03 GMT

It is slow as it needs to read all things. If you have it open and close explorer then reopen explorer it takes some time to show what is in the file.

RE: How to find out what is stored in a DGNlib

PH — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:39:05 GMT

Hi John,

Thanks for this. What do you mean by 'Expensive Group panel'?

RE: How to find out what is stored in a DGNlib

Duncan Macdonald — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:31:37 GMT

Like this. And you can cut and paste to Excel. Would be better if the tabular view was an option as the default view though.

RE: How to find out what is stored in a DGNlib

John Frampton — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:24:19 GMT

Explorer has a Group panel named "Resources", this panel is off by default. If you use Explorer > Resources with Properties, you should be able to devise what file a thing is in. This may not work for all things though.

One thing to note is Resources is an expensive Group panel and I would turn it off if you are not using it.

RE: How to find out what is stored in a DGNlib

PH — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:15:36 GMT

You're right.

RE: How to find out what is stored in a DGNlib

Duncan Macdonald — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:09:22 GMT

I was looking at using the explorer. You can create a custom search for say text styles that are from a library but I can't see a way for it to tell you which library. As with most things to do with explorer it's frustratingly just short of being useful.

RE: How to find out what is stored in a DGNlib

PH — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 13:57:12 GMT

Well, yes but I preferr the short way.

RE: How to find out what is stored in a DGNlib

Duncan Macdonald — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 13:49:43 GMT

Well the long way is to open each one and see what is live in it.