I am trying to create a booklet that I may distribute to cad users that contains all of the line styles from various .RSC files. I know how to output the cells that are included in a particular .CEL file, but I cannot find a way to do the same for line styles. Is there an automated way to make these output like cells do or must I just display each line on my own? thanks in advance for any help given.
Use this Askinga article
http://communities.bentley.com/communities/other_communities/askinga/w/askinga/document-your-custom-line-styles
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that's not what I am looking for. this just dumps ALL of the linestyles, regardless of what .RSC file they are in. I am trying to just show specific linestyles for 1 single RSC file at a time, the exact same way the .CEL are distributed internally.
There should be a way for this to be done through microstation, or another mdl app. this isn't what I wanted. it also doesn't allow me to make any changes to how the linestyles are outputted. either the linestyle is huge and the font is readable, in which case the lines overlap and you cant tell what is what, or you adjust the linestyle scale to be .05 and then you can see the styles but cant see the text along side.
Unknown said: that's not what I am looking for. this just dumps ALL of the linestyles, regardless of what .RSC file they are in. I am trying to just show specific linestyles for 1 single RSC file at a time, the exact same way the .CEL are distributed internally. There should be a way for this to be done through microstation, or another mdl app. this isn't what I wanted. it also doesn't allow me to make any changes to how the linestyles are outputted. either the linestyle is huge and the font is readable, in which case the lines overlap and you cant tell what is what, or you adjust the linestyle scale to be .05 and then you can see the styles but cant see the text along side.
The old mdl is the closest we have the linestyle editor has a preview and tells which rsc it comes from
The mdl does look through the resources folder so if you were to create a new path and move the rsc files one at a time you could create the list per rsc file and make a new dgn before running the mdl and swapping out the rsc files one at a time
Then when your done you could put a border and title to the dgns to show which rsc was used and pdf the result just in case... you could even use the level manager to set scale etc bylevel..
But is still a lot of work, but it has to be done at least once in every company standards manual ...
There may be a way to do it with VBA, choose a rsc file place line and copy and redo the next style over and over but its too much work for me in vba...
so use the mdl and the method out lined is still pretty good...even 20 rsc files is only twenty times to run it the job would take me <30 mins to do with the mdl...and swapping out the rscs one at a time
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Unknown said: Jon Summers works for the company that makes FlexiTable
We included the level legend feature in FlexiTable™ to help CAD administrators. It seemed a useful addition, but I can't say how many people are using it. Nobody, at least in recent times, has asked for a line-style legend generator. In other words, there's little commercial incentive to create such a utility.
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Unknown said:Nobody, at least in recent times, has asked for a line-style legend generator. In other words, there's little commercial incentive to create such a utility.
I agree with this. I don't remember seeing any other posts with this type of request. The AskInga tip was the only post I have seen for this type of tool. Someone had a need for it to create the tool. I don't know how many people actually downloaded the mdl from AskInga.
If there is no demand then it would be a waste of time and money to develop such a tool.
I have not used FlexiTable either but it does seem like a nice tool from what I have seen Jon refer to in his posts.