I have three gINT related questions:
1. How do I create a 22" X 34" frame for the fence diagrams in gINT Professional Plus?
2. Is there a way to export the fence diagrams into Microstation without a frame? I have alot of borings and it keeps cutting off the borings because of significant grade changes.
3. When you copy a Microstation fence diagram into another; it scale ups the shapes by like ten times? is there any way to fix that? See Below
Hi Darius,
A fence report page size comes from the printer driver you have on your computer. In order to design print, and export you will need a driver on your machine that has a 22 x 34 page size option.
I recommend looking at the fence design tutorial. It goes into detail about setting a printer driver for a specific report as well as the other design aspects data frame, margins etc…
It can be found here.
If I understand your question correctly I believe your second question may get resolved if the right page size is defined. But if you are talking about having the frame expand when exporting to dgn, dxf , there is a report property to check. If you goto report design , click on the report properties button and check expand data frame to fit scales.
If you are calling the border the “frame”. Then you can set an output condition on the block or on the entities you don’t want on the export.
There are 2 DXFExport and DGNExport (see gINT Help)
DXFExport (data item)
Applicability:
Graphical reports
Description:
Returns -1 (True) if the report is being output to a DXF file, otherwise returns 0 (False). Can use this to have the report do different things when outputting to a DXF than when outputting to a printer.
For example, you have two versions of your logo. One is a Bitmap and it shows fine gradations of color. However, Bitmaps are not exported. Therefore, you may have a vectorized version of your logo stored as a Discrete Graphic that you use for DXF export and the Bitmap for printing. The way you would set this up is to place the Discrete Graphic version where and how you wanted it. In the Output Condition property you would insert the following expression:
<<DXFExport>>
You would also place the bitmap symbol with the desired properties but offset from where you actually want it so that it doesn't overwrite the Discrete Graphic. Let's say you placed it 1" below where it should be. The Output Condition would read:
Not <<DXFExport>>
and the Output Override Y would read:
@1
that is, at output time only output if it is not going to a DXF file and move it up 1 inch from the design-time position.
For question 3 I don’t understand “When you copy a Microstation fence diagram into another”
Describe the steps in gINT you are doing.
Darius Anthony said:3. When you copy a Microstation fence diagram into another; it scale ups the shapes by like ten times? is there any way to fix that? See Below
When you reference an exported fence (dgn) into Microstation, make sure you scale the reference by 12:1 to convert from inches to feet. After which, if you're doing any copying, make sure the active scale in Microstation is set to 1.0 or you're going to scale the copy up or down.
If your objective with the 22x34 frame is to export to .dxf, you should be able to ignore the page size and make the data frame whatever size you want. It will be larger than the printable page, but will export to the size you set. If you need to actually print it, or pdf, you will need to select the printer that supports that page
1. If you exporting fence to a CAD system, such as MicroStation via DXF, you may generate fence of any arbitrary size (in gINT Pro, and gINT Pro Plus)
2. If the frame is cutting off borings this should be addressed via scales (OUTPUT -> Fences -> FENCE OPTIONS -> Scale text boxes. Keep in mind that fences in gINT are in the 'paper space' (CAD terminology), so given the baseline or alignment and given the title block/border (or frame) size you may calculate the scales, vertical and horizontal, round them and enter them into Scale text boxes under Vertical Axis and Distance Axis. This is much like scaling works in CAD systems when you are ready to plot something. If you don't calculate the right scale, the objects (e.g. boreholes) will be either cut off or shrunk into one small part of a paper/page. The scale may be already required or preset on CAD side, so you just mimic it on gINT side.
3. If you do not (calculate and) set horizontal and vertical scales, gINT will automatically set scales for you. This means that different fences will have different scales (horizontal and vertical) based on the borehole depth/elevation and based on the length of the baseline/alignment. However if you setup horizontal and vertical scales in gINT before exporting it to MicroStation, and if you maintain the same scale for different fence diagrams, then copy/past in MicroStation should give you a proper result or proper overlay.
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I think you replied to the wrong person.