Hi,
We have been having problems with our linestyles not displaying in dwg true view (and AutoCad).
After exporting dgn > dwg we generally open the resultant dwg in dwg TrueView2011 to check that our client will see the file as we expect them to.I discovered in TrueView the exported file has a resolution set to 100 (TruView and Acad Menu: Tools>Options>Display>Display Resolution Arc and Circle smoothness)
When I change this to 1000 hay presto the linstyles display correctly.Checking the DWGSeed file in TrueView I found the Display Resolution is already 1000. This must mean it is being changed down to 100 during the conversion but I can't find where this is set in the dwg export options.
Any help is much appreciated.
Mike
You can set VIEWRES=1000 in your seed DWG file in AutoCAD then it will stay for rest of your DWG save in MicroStation.
The whole concept of VIEWRES, as well as REGEN, were a helpful, even an essential, technique to gain display performance back in the 80's, when computer graphics was still at its infant age with limited CPU power. Stuff like these really should not exist anymore in a modern program. At least a user should not be required for input in order to have the program correctly display arcs/circles in any given view/zoom. Not to bash any program here but whenever I heard a request about VIEWRES and REGEN, in the 21st centry, I just couldn't help but feel sorry for our users who must use the program.
It looks like the seed file's VIEWRES is not used in the resultant DWG file. We will probably have to fix that, so users can set VIEWRES required by the program that mandates it.
There is a new setting called WHIPARC which when set to 1 is supposed to be far superior to VIEWRES. I don't know what version introduced it.
However, I also Google'd the term and found enough issues to suggest it may not be the magic bullet I understood it to be.
Charles (Chuck) Rheault CADD Manager
MDOT State Highway Administration
Thanks everyone for your responses. So it looks like there is a problem here.
I will open a TR.
Regards,
Hi Don,
With: "Not to bash any program here but whenever I heard a request about VIEWRES and REGEN, in the 21st centry, I just couldn't help but feel sorry for our users who must use the program."
You hit the bull's eye ;-))
Regards
Frank
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