Does anyone know how to keep linestyles from automatically being loaded into dgnlib'sand dgn files? I have been trying to limit the number of linestyles available to our usersbut this autocreation of linestyles in files is making it almost impossible to purge them.
Any help would be appreciated.
Tom
Yes... Any DGN files opened previously while the line styles existed somewhere will have them written locally, so will have to be compressed to remove them. This could probably be done as a batch process.
Hi Tom,
The issue here is the familiar one of library contents being copied into the active file to support DV creation. As well as levels, line styles and pattern cells in the active dataset that might be used by DV during the display of nonpersistent graphics are also copied into the active file.
Compress will remove unused content from dgn files but not from dgnlibs which is causing the duplication in your library dgnlibs.
Obviously DV creation is not a concern when managing dgnlibs so I suggest that anyone managing dgnlibs uses a specific UCF or PCF combination that contains the variable BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS=0 that will disable the copying of library content.
Marc
Marc,
Yes, I can see the need for content to be copied to files for DV creation.
However, unlike levels and pattern cells, "All" line styles are copied to active file.
Not just line styles needed for DV creation.
Thanks,