Custom Line Style with Text

Question

I have a few custom line styles that we received from one of our clients, and they seem to behave erratically. They are straight forward utility line styles, so they have a line with a gap and then text that either says "SAN" "E" or "STM". I seem to have occasional issues using these line styles. For whatever reason, the text will come in extremely large on one line style, but the others will behave correctly. The line part of the style is good, the gap for the text is good, but the text itself is huge. 
 Not sure what needs to be adjusted to get this to work. 
 The attached picture shows the gas line on top and then the storm line on bottom. The gas is coming it perfectly, but not the storm.

Dervalcanny · Answer

Hello, 
Could you explain if the files you are working on are DGN or DWG? Are you loading the custom linestyles from an RSC file? 
Could you check that the font that is being used in your storm line exists on your PC? Microstation may be unable to find this font and is using a default font. Please check in the Message Centre to see if there are any messages regarding missing fonts. 
Could you also post the file you are having this issue with and I will take a look at it. 
What version of Microstation are you currently using (08.XX.XXX.XXX) and what version were the linestyles created in? 
Regards

Henk Ligtvoet · Answer

Hello, 
 Looking at the information on the levels in Level Manager in your C102.dgn, we can see that some of the levels depend on an external file (screenshot). 
 If this is intended, please also provide the .dgnlib files and possibly other files that are used in your configuration that have an effect on the behavior of this C102.dgn file. Most likely, that would mean that the files listed in MS_DGNLIBLIST are the ones that we would need. Without these files, it is difficult to determine the cause of the issue, as it could well be that you have duplicate line style definitions in both your active file as well as in your dgnlib(s). One of the steps you could try is to synchronize all the levels in the level manager in C102.dgn with the definitions in your attached .dgnlib files (right mouse click>Select All) and update the levels (right mouse click once again and select: Update Levels). 
 As there are several styles in your current .dgn file that could be related to a 'Storm' line style (Storm-line, STM-NUM, rx-util-storm-cb-square, UT-STM): can you provide the name(s) of the style(s) that you use for Storm? Since you mention that the style works fine in a new file, also the properties of the model: Site Utility Plan could be a reason of the behavior you are seeing (File>Models, right mouse click on Site Utility Plan and choose: Properties). In those properties, you will see that for the line styles a Global Line Style Scale is set to 30. By toggling that option to Annotation Scale, the display of the line style will also change. 
 
 As a last note: The file C102.dgn contains many many line styles embedded in the file. Several of these line styles also relate to Storm line style definitions and could depend on symbols that contain the line style text: STM or GAS etc. If these styles were imported at some stage in the process of creating the drawing, an existing symbol (one that you use for the Storm line) could have been overwritten and hence could be the cause for your problem. If no further reference files are attached to this file, it may be better to create a blank new file, attach C102.dgn as a reference and copy the graphics you need into that new file (Please do not use the Merge Reference into Master file option, as that could carry over the line styles again). 
 Should these suggestions not work, then please send us your .dgnlib files or contact Bentley Technical Support ( http://selectservices.bentley.com/en-US/ ) Regards, Henk