How can you display the contents of a RSC file (such as line styles) so they can be viewed similar to how .CEL files can be displayed?

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.

  • Unknown said:
    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

    One way is to use FlexiTable™ to create a level legend.  This works if you have assigned a line-style to each level.  FlexiTable harvests level information and draws a legend table using each level's symbology...

     
    Regards, Jon Summers
    LA Solutions

  • That would be good but I am trying to see what line styles we have in the 20+ .RSC files that we currently have. setting each level w/ a linestyle just to see what that linestyle is seems to be a pit of a long way about it. is there no way to just display the lines that are associated w/ the resource files like you would cells from a .CEL library file?
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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.

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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.

    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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