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?
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.
Regards, Jon Summers LA Solutions
Thank you!
I should remember more often to use resources instead of my dusty brain :-)
Ben did you try creating a new workspace to see if you get the same issue?
Did you look at your start up did you look inside your workspace.cfg file with note pad read only ? try copy paste in a post here ...
Did you look up the settings ( scale) Manager its a program in mstn .. I think its over riding your design file settings
One of my users years ago wanted to have certain settings set for the active settings at start like text size , colour, scale, level number etc and it was the settings manager that had a text or template file you have to open through mstn and make the changes.......I dont have access to the program any more being 100 years old now but I think I still have a text book Inside Mstn 5 that may have something on the settings manager otherwise the help would be good place or even one of the pull down menus ....
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