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:
    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.

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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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  • This was a custom tool that someone was gracious enough to share on the community. It served their purpose as well as mine. I'm sure a specific tool that suits exactly what you need does not exist. If it did, I'm sure someone would either share it (if freeware) or be advertising it for sale. Axiom does not even offer such capability as you describe and they specialize in Microstation tools. Jon Summers works for the company that makes FlexiTable. They also specialize in this sort of thing but they do not offer such a tool.

    If you need such a specific tool you will either need to learn to program and develop a tool, hire someone to create it or deal with what is available.

    You may be able to work with Bentley to develop such a tool but in my opinion it would be quite complex. Obviously your line styles were created at different scales or in files with different resolutions as they come in at different scales. When I created all of our line styles I used a common file and created everything at 1:1. When I use the mdl all line styles are the same scale so I can apply a global line style scale to the file to adjust all lines at one time.

    There are ways around the downfalls of the program if things are created properly in the first place and you know Microstation well enough to create workarounds.

    All-in-all, whoever developed the mdl saved me a lot of work when I need to place all of my line styles in a file and label them. I also shared this with our other office to do the same. Like Lorys stated, 30 min to display & label hundreds of custom line styles.

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  • 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 

    then in 

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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.