Hello,
I have a bad feeling regarding text styles and its application on Border-Seed-Files.
As an example, the following configuration:
- In a DGN.lib I have all my text styles and are available ion every drawings. - I have created new Border-Seed-Files with these text styles and the used styles are now integrated as a local style in the Border-Seed-File (recognizable by the blue tick in the text style window).
So far everything is ok.
But now my thoughts and fears ....
If somebody later changes and saves one of the used text styles, all texts in this drawing will be adjusted accordingly. This would lead to texts from the Border being changed unintentionally!?
So my question is, does it make sense to work in a Border-Seed-File with text styles or should it be better to put all the texts on text style "none" at the end just before releasing them?
I hope I could explain my fears and would be glad if you could tell me your personal opinions and how you are working on that.
Many Thanks Regards Raphael
Hi,
Please note that the idea of an DGNlib is that this kind of files should be place on server and end user don't have access to this.
Once this is done each user can change text style parameters inside each output files that is not a problem.
This operation changes the icon of the text style to a blue triangule so the user can see that's diferent from the source.
https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/15179/text-style-icon-color-changes
At any time users can revert back to the source parameters from the DGNlib file and make you should make sure users update this.
https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/11665/text-styles---text---microstation
If end user does not want to use the source parameters you can deploy your DGNlib file on the network without text styles which is not standard procedure.
In my opinion seed file should have text style associate.
If you deply your source files without linkage and after you make small or large update/correction you'll have more work to get everthing updated.
Regards
José
I agree with José. Place the dgnlib files on a server, modify the access rights so that those files are read-only for standard users, and give yourself (and other admin types) modify rights.
This not only applies to your dgnlib files with text styles, but other resource dgnlib files with levels, dimension styles, print styles, etc.
Rod WingSenior Systems Analyst