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.

  • 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:
    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.

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