Hi,
I'm a MicroStation user in an ACAD company. Our company standard uses a non-printing yellow (byLayer) border for all viewports. When I open a DWG and either copy or manipulate the shape of a viewport, the viewport border changes to black/white. My CAD Manager is not pleased.
Microstation doesn't allow the colour of a viewport to be shown or changed back to yellow in the Element Information dialog, or using the Change Element Attributes tool. Opening the resulting file in ACAD, it is possible to change the colour again.
Is there any way of preventing MicroStation from changing the viewport colour automatically, or at least allowing the colour to be changed back again?
Regards,
Mark
MicroStation V8i SS3 08.11.09.459
So your not using autocad at all just using mstn to emulate acad, and do all your work etc in a mstn session without change file format right?
Can you post a simple autocad.dwg example file only needs a box and text in the modelspace
and the viewport in paper space no need for anything else...so we can see what happens at our end...
very interesting problem....
Lorys
Started msnt work 1990 - Retired Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )
But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE update 16 (10.16.00.80)
MicroStation user since 1990 Melbourne Australia.click link to PM me
Hi Lorys & Jon,
Yes, I'm using MicroStation as my tool of choice. It's what I've always used and am most familiar with. I find it much better than acad. I generally have to work on dwg files without converting them, using dgn only when I don't have to share the file with others so I can take advantage of the superior functionality of dgn.
Attached is a sample file Viewport_Test01.dwg and a screenshot of the Sheet Model/Paperspace.
The top viewport outlined in yellow is the original one. The lower one is a copy of the original, and you can see that the act of copying has changed the viewport border to black.
Similarly, if you select the original viewport and change its shape by dragging the handles, it appears to stay yellow, but on saving the file, it also changes to black.
/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/Viewport_5F00_Test01.dwg