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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://communities.bentley.com/cfs-file/__key/system/syndication/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/f/microstation-forum/138436/active-scale-default</link><description>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&amp;#39;t have to change it every time I import or copy something into the drawing. So far, I have tried going</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>Telligent Community 12</generator><item><title>RE: Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/420174?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2017 23:03:30 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:b736cc5b-2fd9-4a75-b8a8-5062270e168e</guid><dc:creator>Lorys</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Ben Which part of the post was the fix for your &amp;nbsp;problem&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/420167?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2017 21:38:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:620ab9a2-1b73-4bf0-94c9-2b0ec7cc60ec</guid><dc:creator>Benjamin Burdick</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;A new workspace worked although it gave me a lot of stuff that I didn&amp;#39;t want as well. But, nevertheless, it worked  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/419722?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:17:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:1804eb65-3328-49ac-84c3-aa675461ff66</guid><dc:creator>George A. Martin</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;The Active Scale (AS=) setting&amp;nbsp;along with many, many,&amp;nbsp;other settings, are stored in the dgn file.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Most Seed files&amp;nbsp;have the Active Scale&amp;nbsp;set to &amp;quot;1&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you wanted to change it to 4 (AS=4), and keep&amp;nbsp;it, you would have to perform a &amp;quot;Save Settings&amp;quot; (what was called &amp;ldquo;File Design&amp;rdquo; in olden days (1983)), on the file! If it is set incorrectly (as far as you are concerned), you need to set it to what you want (i.e. AS=1) then do a &amp;quot;Save Settings&amp;quot; (File &amp;gt; Save Settings). Best time to do that is when you first enter the file. Settings change while working in the file and you are accidently storing those settings also&amp;nbsp;if you do a &amp;ldquo;Save Settings&amp;rdquo; later during the design process.&amp;nbsp;Staying in the file and changing that setting after a &amp;quot;Save Settings&amp;quot; was done,&amp;nbsp;will typically&amp;nbsp;be ignored,&amp;nbsp;If&amp;nbsp;you exit the file, and then open it, the setting should still be set to what you stored (i.e. AS=1). If it is not the Active Scale you set and&amp;nbsp;saved using Save Settings, it could be one of these things.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; You have &amp;quot;Save Settings on Exit&amp;quot; toggled &amp;ldquo;On&amp;rdquo; in your User Preferences. Then it would be the Scale set when you exited the file.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;You could&amp;nbsp;have a program loading/executing setting the AS when you open a file.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;nbsp;OR you have a corrupt file.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MaryB&amp;#39;s solution is a good one if you&amp;nbsp;have the toggle set to &amp;ldquo;Save Settings on Exit&amp;rdquo;. It also works for the Program running when you open the file, but you should figure out just what is setting the Scale setting to something you don&amp;#39;t like, and correct it at the source. The next person getting that file and opening it will get those settings that are set in the file.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As an add-on to MaryB&amp;#39;s solution. You may also want to set additional things at the same time, i.e. AS=1;AA=0 (Active Angle); TS=1 (Terminator Scale); PS=1 (Pattern Scale) PD=0,0 (Pattern Delta (Row &amp;amp; Colum Spacing)); KY=1 or KY=2 (Keypoint Snap Divisor); among others you want as a base standard. You can do it by finding the key-in that sets it and building a string like &amp;ldquo;AS=1; AA=0; TS=1; KY=1&amp;rdquo; No &amp;ldquo; &amp;ldquo; &amp;amp; These is a limit to the string of 255 characters.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If any of the posted answers worked for you, please tell others which answer worked, or this thread assumes&amp;nbsp;your problem was never fixed, and it will keep growing.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/419680?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2017 08:23:20 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:3de80490-5bdc-42ed-b15f-691db71b9379</guid><dc:creator>Lorys</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Ben did you try creating a new workspace to see if &amp;nbsp;you get the same issue?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Did you &amp;nbsp;look at your start up did you &amp;nbsp;look inside your workspace.cfg file &amp;nbsp;with note pad read only ? try copy paste in a post here ...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Did you look up the settings ( scale) Manager &amp;nbsp;its a program in mstn .. I think its over riding your design file settings&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of my users years ago wanted to have certain settings set for the active settings at start &amp;nbsp;like text size , colour, scale, level number etc and &amp;nbsp;it was the settings manager that had a text or template &amp;nbsp;file you &amp;nbsp;have &amp;nbsp;to open through mstn &amp;nbsp;and make the changes.......I dont &amp;nbsp;have access to the program any more being &amp;nbsp;100 years old now&amp;nbsp;but I think I still have a text book Inside Mstn 5 that may &amp;nbsp;have something on the settings manager otherwise the &amp;nbsp;help would be good place or even one of the &amp;nbsp;pull down menus ....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/419593?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 16:59:02 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:a322f9f2-e267-4ea5-8b18-6be8c423db82</guid><dc:creator>MaryB</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thank you!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I should remember more often to use resources instead of my dusty brain :-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/419590?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 16:44:10 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:20200dbf-91f2-44ff-833e-7f950447bc28</guid><dc:creator>Jon Summers</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;[quote user=&amp;quot;MaryB&amp;quot;]Microstation BASIC was phased out a few versions after that, replaced by Microstation VBA[/quote]&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See the &lt;a title="Bentley Systems: History of MicroStation" href="/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/3164/history-of-microstation"&gt;History of MicroStation&lt;/a&gt; for Bentley&amp;#39;s timeline.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MicroStation BASIC arrived with MicroStation 95.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;VBA arrived with MicroStation V8, which continued to support BASIC as well.&amp;nbsp; MicroStation CONNECT does not include BASIC; VBA lives on, as 64-bit v7.1, in MicroStation CONNECT.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/419584?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 16:01:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:d13d1dfa-8f67-4e5e-9e6c-69bf100f708f</guid><dc:creator>MaryB</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#39;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&amp;#39;t have to remember it. I&amp;#39;m sorry I can&amp;#39;t get too much more specific than that - V5 was a LONG time ago for me and a lot has happened since then.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And FYI - Microstation BASIC was phased out a few versions after that, replaced by Microstation VBA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I do know that User Commends were available in V5. If you aren&amp;#39;t running a startup UCM (as mentioned above) perhaps you could create one to set things the way you want them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/419571?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:50:19 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:3e5c7b5f-a46f-431c-9c3b-646864e32630</guid><dc:creator>Benjamin Burdick</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks for the help, this didn&amp;#39;t quite solve my problem, but the shortcut will certainly help&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/419563?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:46:24 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:71b8596d-1cc1-4a7f-bcd5-7681b7b70b45</guid><dc:creator>dmaxm</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;One other thing to check is under workspace configuration and under user commands.&amp;nbsp; Check to see if there is a Startup User Command listed.&amp;nbsp; It&amp;#39;s possible that a user command is making this and other settings at startup. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/419204?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jul 2017 10:41:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:5d6f135d-3145-4813-b51b-e1817cce1405</guid><dc:creator>Lorys</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;if your &amp;nbsp;using &amp;nbsp;old mstn then you probably&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;have one of two things &amp;nbsp;happening&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1, Its preset in the settings manager ( old tool no longer used)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;or 2. a macro or mdl is being loaded at start up &amp;nbsp;so look in workspace configuration under applications &lt;a href="/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/work.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="/resized-image/__size/320x240/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/273/work.JPG" alt=" " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;see my workspace has a tool being loaded at startup ( the blue area) ..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;when you start mst from the icon what &amp;nbsp;does msnt manager tell you you your workspace and user and interface are , write them down&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;now go back and &amp;nbsp;change to new , new &amp;nbsp;, default &amp;nbsp;and see &amp;nbsp;what &amp;nbsp;happens&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;create new dgn form clean seed , key in as=? enter and the &amp;nbsp;active scale will be displayed... should be 1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;open your seed file and &amp;nbsp;keyin as=? enter and again should be &amp;nbsp;1, if not &amp;nbsp;change it and save settings....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;if still now joy.. then you need to escalate to Bentley &amp;nbsp;select support and maybe do a &amp;nbsp;debug report and also send a copy &amp;nbsp;of the workspace config and user config to Bentley ....&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile create the &amp;nbsp;following on an F key ( as mary already suggested) I suggest using the F1 as &amp;nbsp;you can call up help many other ways&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AS=1;FILEDESIGN&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;and &amp;nbsp;just &amp;nbsp;run the F1 everytime you open a dgn until you can fix the problem....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/419133?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 22:14:06 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:43a4d8db-9d18-40e7-a2c7-4cc24f793726</guid><dc:creator>Benjamin Burdick</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;It still doesn&amp;#39;t work. When I start the application back up, it says &amp;quot;Active Display Set To 4.00&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What I also don&amp;#39;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?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/419127?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 21:26:57 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:360319a2-0b81-45cb-9ae6-2ea6388b253f</guid><dc:creator>MaryB</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve had the key-in &lt;strong&gt;AS=1&lt;/strong&gt; on a function key since about that version of Microstation...It is really handy. While it doesn&amp;#39;t solve your issue, it would certainly make resetting the scale a single-key breeze.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>RE: Active Scale default</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/thread/419107?ContentTypeID=1</link><pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2017 18:53:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:0bd64d9b-eb4f-4c96-b1a8-56dd2d89ba6d</guid><dc:creator>Tim Hickman</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>