creating a 22x34 frame within the fence diagrams

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

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

  • 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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  • 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

  • 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.