Stop Autoload of Linestyles

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.

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.

Yes. When it was just resource files, managing them was easier.

With the current behavior, the most problematic part is the linestyles

are copied into every file upon opening it.

So eventhough, I cleaned up the linestyles in dgnlib's to a point.

Every file that was previously opened still has all the linestyles in them.

This reminds me, I need to go check my seed files.

Hopefully a better way of managing them will be forth coming in a future release.

Tom

Tom, what you're describing is very much like what we saw, where the process to permanently remove Line Styles is not that apparent.   And yes, it does seem as though the DGNLib storage aspect is where the process seems to differ since with RSC files alone it's fairly straightforward, as Dennis mentioned.

Steve and Dennis,

Let me clarify my original comment.

What I did was remove the resource file that had many of the new linestyles

with the intent to add only the linestyles i would like to keep to a new resource.

There are some really cool new custom linestyles available.

But what I found is when I removed the resource file all the linestyles

still remained.

So I went the menu "Element>Linestyles>Custom and it indicated that

the linestyles that used to be in the resource are all in the current file.

I compressed file with the delete linestyles option checked and it removed

linestyles from the current file but they were still available.

Now it indicated were in one of my dgnlib libraries.

Changed the offending dgnlib to a dgn so I could compress the linestyles from file

and then renamed back to dgnlib.

Re-opened the orignal dgn file and all the linestyles were again available.

Not from a dgnlib but actually back in the file. Urrgh.

Compressed the file again and the linestyle now were showing from

a different dgnlib.

To sum it up, I had to systematically go through multiple dgnlib's

and purge the linestyles from each one. This method removed many of the linestyles.

But the dgnlib tree ended up at a Bentley delievered file on the c:\drive.  

Very difficult to remove these styles on each computer.

Basically what I noticed is when I compressed the linestyles out of a file.

Closed the file and reopened all the linestyles were copied back into the file.

It had been happening without me knowing each time I had opened one of our

dgnlib too.

My question is how can I stop all the linestyles from being copied into each

file that is opened. I only want "used linestyles" to be added to a file

and others only to be referenced; Either from a linestyle resource or a dgnlib.

With the current behavior it is impossible to manage.

They are everywhere.

Any help would be appreciated.

Tom