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Stop Autoload of Linestyles

Tom Danner
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Does anyone know how to keep linestyles from automatically being loaded into dgnlib's
and dgn files? I have been trying to limit the number of linestyles available to our users
but this autocreation of linestyles in files is making it almost impossible to purge them.

Any help would be appreciated.

Tom

 

  • Offline in reply to Tom Danner
    What I am finding is that Aecosim likes to copy in all available linestyles into files when opened, including those from mechanical/structural and electrical, when these disciplines are not even loaded.
  • Offline in reply to Tom Danner
    Tom,
    I know in a newer version (SS4 or 5, I can't remember which) the guilty DGNLIB with the line styles that you mentioned resided on each user's machine was cleaned up. Additionally, when you were doing the clean up of line styles you could have used the keyin: DELETE UNUSED LINESTYLES on the DGNLIB file to avoid changing the extension to DGN to compress and then reverting back to DGNLIB. This also allows you to batch process files. Note that I usually run this keyin twice. The first time it will get rid of 292 linestyles and the second it will clear one more. Also, I tend to use base MicroStation when doing any edits to DGNLIB's to avoid any potential content contamination that may be caused by the behavior that BB_DVDATASETELEMENTS = 1 forces.
    -Travis



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