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?
save settings should do the trick. Maybe try keying in the setting rather than picking it thru the dialog. Try AS=1, hit enter, then save settings. Get out of and then back into the file and see if it holds.
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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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Answer Verified By: Benjamin Burdick
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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Unknown said:Microstation BASIC was phased out a few versions after that, replaced by Microstation VBA
See the History of MicroStation for Bentley's timeline.
MicroStation BASIC arrived with MicroStation 95.
VBA arrived with MicroStation V8, which continued to support BASIC as well. MicroStation CONNECT does not include BASIC; VBA lives on, as 64-bit v7.1, in MicroStation CONNECT.
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Thank you!
I should remember more often to use resources instead of my dusty brain :-)