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.
Thanks Kirk for all your help! I understand where you are coming from.