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AECOsim Building Designer adds three actions to the Compress options user interface, File menu > Compress > Options dialog:
Building Dataset Elements and Building Display Accelerators are cached by AECOSim Building Designer to speed up operation of any files containing Dynamic Views. Both of these actions should be unticked unless you need to remove cached data from files. Ticking these actions is not recommended in normal operation.
The cached data results in larger file sizes but this does not equate to longer file opening, quite the opposite. If the cached data is compressed out file opening can be extended while the caches are rebuilt.
To ensure that users do not inadvertently turn these actions on they can be pre-set in the site configuration by adding the following:
MS_COMPRESS_OPTIONS = +ALL;-BUILDING_DATASET_ELEMENTS;-BUILDING_DISPLAY_ACCELERATORS
The order of the statement is crucial, +ALL ticks all the boxes (which you generally want ticked), the following '-' entries untick the two Building actions .
These values can be added at the site level in the Standards.cfg or set in an AECOSim Building Designer level configuration file.
If set at site level where MicroStation is using the same Standards.cfg as AECOSim Building Designer the additional AECOSim Building Designer specific statements will not cause any errors.
The three additional compress actions available in AECOSim Building Designer:
Action
Alias
Delete Empty Forms
EMPTY_FORMS
Delete Building Dataset Elements
BUILDING_DATASET_ELEMENTS
Delete Building Display Accelerators
BUILDING_DISPLAY_ACCELERATORS
http://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/compress-options-can-affect-drawing-view-performance.aspx
Batch Update of Cached Visible Edges (CVE) in AECOsim Building Designer:
http://communities.bentley.com/products/building/building_analysis___design/w/building_analysis_and_design__wiki/7184.aspx
Compress Options:
http://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/compress-options.aspx
http://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/compress-file-on-exit.aspx
An earlier Ask Inga tip:
http://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/askinga/w/askinga/configure-your-compress-options.aspx