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section callout in SS3

Gary Price
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I am currently using V8i SS3 and am looking to draw sections using the section callout tool.  Having clicked on the tool the 'place section callout' dialogue opens.  When selecting 'drawing seed' only 'none' appears in the dropdown box instead of a list of options.  Is there a setting in my configuration that's wrong?  How do I retrieve the list of seed files in the 'drawing seed' drop down list?

Is there an idiots guide to creating custom callout symbols, using dgnlibs and seed files?

  • 0 Offline in reply to Gary Price
    Hi Gary,

    I found that the list would only work with the _USTN_SYSTEMDGNLIBLIST variable. As a result I have put the line:

    _USTN_SYSTEMDGNLIBLIST > $(MS_DRAWINGSEED_LIBLIST)

    in my configuration file. This is done by default with AECOsim but not with MicroStation

    HTH,
    Mick
  • 0 Offline in reply to Gary Price
    Conor,
    After posting my last reply, I tweaked the MS_DRAWINGSEED_LIBLIST entry to point directly to DrawingSeed.dgnlib and then opened DrawingSeed.dgnlib, placed a section callout and the list of drawing seeds has now appeared. Thanks again for your help.

    Regards

    Gary
  • 0 Offline in reply to Conor K

    Strange that the 'Create Drawing' option can be ticked. If you proceed and place a section as an example, the Create Drawing dialog should pop up, does it give a file (dgnlib) name for either of the Seed Model fields in this dialog?  In the 'create drawing model' section of the dialogue the seed model is 'ModelSeed.dgn. Drawing'.  In the 'create sheet model' section of the dialogue the seed model is 'ModelSeed.dgn. Sheet'.

    Is the MS_DRAWINGSEED_LIBLIST variable set up to point directly to the files or just to the folders?

    The entry for MS_DRAWINGSEED_LIBLIST is C:\ProgramData\Bentley\MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries)\WorkSpace\PHGBGR\Standards\dgnlib;C:\ProgramData\Bentley\MicroStation V8i (SELECTseries)\WorkSpace\System\dgnlib

    Thanks again Conor.

  • 0 Offline in reply to Gary Price

    Strange that the 'Create Drawing' option can be ticked. If you proceed and place a section as an example, the Create Drawing dialog should pop up, does it give a file (dgnlib) name for either of the Seed Model fields in this dialog?

    Is the MS_DRAWINGSEED_LIBLIST variable set up to point directly to the files or just to the folders?

    Also, just for info, I am not sure if you have seen it or not, there is a section in the Help about this which gives more information which might help in understanding. If you go to the Search tab of the help and search "Drawing Seeds in DGN Libraries", see image attached...

    Regards,



  • 0 Offline in reply to Conor K
    I have 2 entries in MS_DRAWINGSEED_LIBLIST (should I only have one? Are they used in any order?), one of them points to the directory with the supplied DrawingSeed.dgnlib in. The other (which is the first entry), points to the standards directory that contains 2 dgnlibs that have been created in our drawing office, both have save views.
    When placing the section callout, the 'place section callout' dialogue opens, there are no seeds in the 'drawing seed' drop down but the 'create drawing' box can be ticked.

    Regards

    Gary
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