Active Scale default

My company uses a very old version of Microstation (Ver 5.07, 1998). I want to know if there is some way to set the Active Scale to 1.0 so that I don't have to change it every time I import or copy something into the drawing. So far, I have tried going into the Design File>Active Scale> change it to 1.0, then Save Settings. When I exit and reenter it goes back to 4.0. Any help?

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  • It still doesn't work. When I start the application back up, it says "Active Display Set To 4.00"

    What I also don't understand is that my coworker uses the same program, and his Active Scale is always set to 2.00, which tells me that it is something that can be changed. Any more ideas?

  • if your  using  old mstn then you probably  have one of two things  happening

    1, Its preset in the settings manager ( old tool no longer used) 

    or 2. a macro or mdl is being loaded at start up  so look in workspace configuration under applications   

    see my workspace has a tool being loaded at startup ( the blue area) ..

    when you start mst from the icon what  does msnt manager tell you you your workspace and user and interface are , write them down

    now go back and  change to new , new  , default  and see  what  happens

    create new dgn form clean seed , key in as=? enter and the  active scale will be displayed... should be 1

    open your seed file and  keyin as=? enter and again should be  1, if not  change it and save settings....

    if still now joy.. then you need to escalate to Bentley  select support and maybe do a  debug report and also send a copy  of the workspace config and user config to Bentley ....

    Meanwhile create the  following on an F key ( as mary already suggested) I suggest using the F1 as  you can call up help many other ways

    AS=1;FILEDESIGN

    and  just  run the F1 everytime you open a dgn until you can fix the problem....

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  • One other thing to check is under workspace configuration and under user commands.  Check to see if there is a Startup User Command listed.  It's possible that a user command is making this and other settings at startup.

  • Thanks for the help, this didn't quite solve my problem, but the shortcut will certainly help

  • I can't recall, does V5 use Microstation Basic at all? If so, you may be able to create a small macro to run every time you open a design file that would automatically reset your scale to 1 so you wouldn't have to remember it. I'm sorry I can't get too much more specific than that - V5 was a LONG time ago for me and a lot has happened since then.

    And FYI - Microstation BASIC was phased out a few versions after that, replaced by Microstation VBA.

    I do know that User Commends were available in V5. If you aren't running a startup UCM (as mentioned above) perhaps you could create one to set things the way you want them.

    MaryB

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